Elementary to Intermediate / complete
Everyday Kai
Build practical fluency for home, food, family, travel, work, health, emotion, repair, and polite conversation.
outcomes
what learners can do
- Handle common daily situations in Common Kai.
- Use stable idioms safely and literally when needed.
- Ask for help, clarify, repair, thank, apologize, and disagree politely.
course map
units
Home, Food, Family, and Health
Daily life nouns, care phrases, health needs, and practical requests.
Travel, Directions, Plans, and Appointments
Routes, place questions, schedules, appointments, permission, waiting, and practical planning.
Emotion and Repair
Feeling, conflict, apology, thanks, uncertainty, and conversation repair.
Work, Money, Services, and Help
Work status, tasks, tools, devices, money, fair exchange, buying situations, and help requests.
Health, Symptoms, Safety, and Emergency Care
Health status, symptoms, urgent help, safety instructions, clinic needs, and care coordination.
Conversation Strategies
Clarification, repetition, polite disagreement, conversation recovery, and longer practical dialogues.
Everyday Review and Assessment
Cumulative dialogues, integrated practice, final assessment, and scoring guide.
readiness
unit prerequisite checks
Use these checks before opening a unit. They turn the prerequisite line into visible evidence: completed prior work, recall of earlier grammar, and readiness to begin the first page.
Home, Food, Family, and Health
Daily life nouns, care phrases, health needs, and practical requests.
required before starting
quick readiness check
Travel, Directions, Plans, and Appointments
Routes, place questions, schedules, appointments, permission, waiting, and practical planning.
required before starting
quick readiness check
Emotion and Repair
Feeling, conflict, apology, thanks, uncertainty, and conversation repair.
required before starting
quick readiness check
Work, Money, Services, and Help
Work status, tasks, tools, devices, money, fair exchange, buying situations, and help requests.
required before starting
quick readiness check
Health, Symptoms, Safety, and Emergency Care
Health status, symptoms, urgent help, safety instructions, clinic needs, and care coordination.
required before starting
quick readiness check
Conversation Strategies
Clarification, repetition, polite disagreement, conversation recovery, and longer practical dialogues.
required before starting
quick readiness check
Everyday Review and Assessment
Cumulative dialogues, integrated practice, final assessment, and scoring guide.
required before starting
quick readiness check
audio
course audio resources
Core sound inventory
Vowels, consonant rows, syllable practice, and minimal pairs.
transcript 14 lines
Core 1,000 word audio
High-frequency Common Kai words with teaching pronunciations.
transcript 1001 lines
Intermediate dialogue audio
Longer Common Kai turns for everyday and story-level listening.
transcript 421 lines
reading
graded everyday readings
dialogue
intermediate dialogue pages
speaking
conversation role-play cards
speaking
solo and partner speaking prompts
answers
model responses
lessons