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.
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Keep the report either way
Refund or not, the placement report — your child's level, gaps and 4-week plan — is yours to keep.
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Voice chat with Lumi
Tap the mic and just talk — Lumi listens, answers, and remembers you
Tap the mic to start talking
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Miss Mei 美美老師
🌸 Sweet & cute
Ages 4–8 · all students
“Hi! I'm Miss Mei — let's sing, play and learn Chinese together!”
Ms. Lam 林老師
🤍 Elegant & graceful
Ages 9–16 · Ms. Lam's class
“Hello, I'm Ms. Lam. Step by step, we'll learn Chinese with care and poise.”
Mr. Chan 陳老師
⚡ Handsome & energetic
Ages 9–16 · Mr. Chan's class
“Hey there! Mr. Chan here — my lessons move fast and stay fun. Let's go!”
* Teacher portraits are original generated digital humans — not real people, no real likeness used.
Built on published learning science — not marketing words
Every method below is traceable: author, year, and the numbers the study actually reported.
Spaced repetition
Words come back just before your child would forget them.
Ebbinghaus (1885); Cepeda et al. (2006), Psychological Bulletin 132(3)
Retrieval practice
Your child answers first, then sees the answer — recall beats re-reading.
Roediger & Karpicke (2006): 61% vs 40% recall after one week
Distributed practice
15 minutes a day beats a two-hour weekend cram.
Cepeda et al. (2006), Psychological Bulletin 132(3)
Interleaving
New and old words are mixed, so the brain has to choose — not just repeat.
Rohrer & Taylor (2007): 63% vs 20% accuracy on later tests
Dual coding
Sound, shape and picture arrive together — which is why our narration is locked to the animation, frame by frame.
Paivio (1986); Mayer (2001), multimedia learning
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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, two proven ladders
Choose the track that fits your child's school system — both led by Lumi the AI tutor, both with animated lessons and live translation.
International Track
Speak-first. L1–L6 age ladder plus exam routes (IGCSE bridge, IB Chinese A Lang & Lit, IB Chinese B, CIE A-Level 9715). Benchmarks: IB PYP/MYP, IGCSE, YCT/HSK.
- ✦ Clear ladder: words → sentences → paragraphs → texts & stories
- ✦ Speaking-first: role-play, show-and-tell, mini presentations
- ✦ Benchmarked to IB PYP / MYP and Cambridge IGCSE Chinese
- ✦ Writing second: tracing → guided → independent
Local Track
Write-first. P1–P6 by grade plus S1–S6 through to the HKDSE (two-paper format, 12 set classical texts). Benchmarks: EDB guides, TSA, marks-submission, Pre-S1 HKAT, HKEAA outline.
- ✦ Write-first: P1 strokes → P6 timed 400+ character essays
- ✦ Weekly dictation, comprehension & writing drills
- ✦ EDB primary Chinese curriculum (~2,600 characters)
- ✦ P3 TSA · P5 marks-submission · P6 Pre-S1 HKAT mocks
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.
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