Writing Website – ✨ Key Features

We’ve built this writing website to help children and families practise writing Chinese characters and create their own stories in a fun, meaningful, and easy way. Every feature is designed to support different learning styles, encourage creativity, and make practising Chinese more enjoyable for both beginners and experienced learners.

Key Features

Three writing modes – Choose the way they want to practise:
• Trace characters with stroke guides to build accuracy and confidence
• Copy characters by looking at their strokes, without tracing
• Write from memory without seeing any strokes, testing what they’ve learned

📚 Choose “Custom Course” – You/they can type Chinese characters or copy and paste the content they want to create their own course. All words you/they enter will appear in their personal course list. If some words are repeated, they’ll be placed at the front, followed by any new words they add.

🎙️ Voice input – They can speak their words or sentences out loud, and the characters will appear in their personal course list. (In the Yellow Zone “Setup for Cantonese Tools,” there is a link with instructions on how to add voice input to the keyboard.)

📖 Built-in courses and word lists – Includes single characters and vocabulary grouped by course to help children review after class.

📝 Make sentences or stories – They can apply the words they have learned or written to create sentences and stories. This helps them understand how characters are used in real situations.

✏️ Edit saved sentences – They can return to their saved sentences anytime to make changes or add new ideas, without rearranging all the words from scratch.

📄 Download as PDF – Before saving, they can change the title and add their name. This makes it easy to keep a record of their progress, create diaries, or organise stories into chapters.

📊 Box counter – Shows how many character boxes they’ve filled. Even if two characters share one box, they still count as one. The more they write by themselves, the more boxes they can fill. This gives a clear idea of their progress.

💾 Auto-save – Their work stays safely on the device even if the page is closed or refreshed (unless the red “Delete” button in the top right corner is clicked). They can work in short sessions without worrying about losing progress.

📂 Export & import word lists – Keep a separate vocabulary list for each child to track learning. Lists can be exported to save them and imported again later to continue. Exported lists do not include Green Zone “Make Sentences” content.

 


📝 Step-by-step: How to Use

1️⃣ Purple Zone “Choose Course” – Enter text or choose a course
They can type Chinese characters or use voice input to add words to their course. Repeated words will go first, followed by new words.

2️⃣ Blue Zone “Writing” – Choose the writing mode
They can pick from tracing, copying, or writing from memory to match their learning style.

3️⃣ Green Zone “Make Sentences” – Make sentences or stories
They can use the words they’ve written to create sentences or stories. When finished, they can download their work as a PDF, add a title, and put their name.

4️⃣ Yellow Zone “Other Useful Websites” – Share work
They can click “Share your work” to send their writing to us and read what other children have created. Sharing encourages creativity and fosters learning from one another.

5️⃣ Green button in the top right corner – Switching to another child’s account
Before switching, export the current file and save it in a safe location. Import it next time to continue from where they left off.