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

readiness

unit prerequisite checks

7 units

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.

unit 1 readiness

Home, Food, Family, and Health

Daily life nouns, care phrases, health needs, and practical requests.

required before starting

quick readiness check

unit 2 readiness

Travel, Directions, Plans, and Appointments

Routes, place questions, schedules, appointments, permission, waiting, and practical planning.

required before starting

quick readiness check

unit 3 readiness

Emotion and Repair

Feeling, conflict, apology, thanks, uncertainty, and conversation repair.

required before starting

quick readiness check

unit 4 readiness

Work, Money, Services, and Help

Work status, tasks, tools, devices, money, fair exchange, buying situations, and help requests.

required before starting

quick readiness check

unit 5 readiness

Health, Symptoms, Safety, and Emergency Care

Health status, symptoms, urgent help, safety instructions, clinic needs, and care coordination.

required before starting

quick readiness check

unit 6 readiness

Conversation Strategies

Clarification, repetition, polite disagreement, conversation recovery, and longer practical dialogues.

required before starting

quick readiness check

unit 7 readiness

Everyday Review and Assessment

Cumulative dialogues, integrated practice, final assessment, and scoring guide.

required before starting

quick readiness check

audio

course audio resources

recording checklist
draft audio / sounds

Core sound inventory

Vowels, consonant rows, syllable practice, and minimal pairs.

transcript 14 lines
draft audio / word recognition

Core 1,000 word audio

High-frequency Common Kai words with teaching pronunciations.

transcript 1001 lines
draft audio / connected speech

Intermediate dialogue audio

Longer Common Kai turns for everyday and story-level listening.

transcript 421 lines

reading

graded everyday readings

open readings
5 readings / Everyday grammar only
Everyday reading ladder
Practical Kai passages with translations and comprehension checks for home, travel, emotion repair, work, health, and conversation.

dialogue

intermediate dialogue pages

open dialogues
5 pages / grammar notes / translation tasks
Intermediate dialogue guide
Five connected-speech exchanges built from the intermediate dialogue audio, with embedded-question grammar, contrast notes, and Kai-English translation reveals.

speaking

conversation role-play cards

open cards
4 cards / partner practice / success checks
Everyday Kai role-play cards
Partner-ready speaking cards with scenario, roles, target forms, constraints, and completion criteria for this course level.

speaking

solo and partner speaking prompts

open prompts
3 solo prompts / 3 partner prompts
Everyday Kai speaking prompts
Short prompt cards for recording yourself, partner turn-taking, pronunciation control, and level-specific speaking targets.

answers

model responses

open models
4 role-play models / 6 speaking models
Everyday Kai model responses
Sample answers for role-play cards and speaking prompts, with Kai lines, English meaning, and notes on why each response works.

lessons

online lessons