Your child's first Chinese teacher is a spark of light.
LUMI is an AI-powered Chinese academy for international kids aged 4–16. One placement interview, six levels, cartoon worlds for little ones and real-life scenes for teens — every lesson alive, every word translated live.
No card required · 15 minutes · Instant level report
Alive, never boring
Every lesson is a 5-minute animated story with live narration, moving characters and instant translation. Kids don't memorize Chinese — they play it.
Ages 4–6 · Cartoon Worlds
Singing pinyin, dancing characters and Lumi the light-sprite guide every lesson. Zero text pressure, all games, songs and voice.
Ages 12–16 · Real-Life Scenes
Ordering bubble tea, texting friends, planning a weekend trip — teens learn from animated scenes they actually live, not textbook dialogues.
Touch a lesson
Every lesson ships with an animated mini-video — moving characters, live narration and your language as subtitles. Tap play.
Six levels, written by the system itself
After the placement interview, LUMI's curriculum engine builds each level's content from scratch — vocabulary, sentence patterns, animated lessons, quizzes — benchmarked to HSK & YCT standards.
Pinyin songs, 80 words, greeting & family. Cartoon worlds, all voice, zero writing.
300 words, colors & animals, simple sentences. First strokes and character stories.
600 words, school & daily life scenes, short dialogues, first guided writing.
1,200 words, life scenarios & first essays, pinyin-free reading.
2,200 words, social & digital life, opinion paragraphs, formal writing starts.
3,500 words, debate & current topics, essays & HSK4-5 readiness.
Two tracks, one standard
Choose the track that fits your child's goal — both led by Lumi the AI tutor, both with animated lessons and live translation.
International Track
For kids abroad: speak first, read later. Immersion-style conversation, listening and culture.
- ✦ Listening & speaking priority
- ✦ Animated role-play scenes
- ✦ Culture capsules: festivals, food, cities
- ✦ Live translation safety-net
Local Track
For heritage & immersion kids: the full literacy ladder.
- ✦ Reading comprehension core
- ✦ Character foundations & radicals
- ✦ Guided → independent writing
- ✦ Exam-style passages from L3 up
Meet Lumi, the AI tutor
A spark of light that never sleeps, never scolds and speaks six languages. Lumi leads every interview and every lesson — with infinite patience and a voice kids love.
The AI placement interview
Lumi meets your child one-on-one for 15 minutes: games, sounds, pictures and chat. The system observes, adapts and writes the first personalized study plan — automatically.