Mandarin AI Partner

Teacher-first AI co-pilot for Mandarin lesson design, aligned with Taiwan’s TBCL standards.

A practical web tool that helps Mandarin teachers generate level-appropriate teaching materials faster—without losing pedagogical control.

Built on: TAIDE / EDU-TAIDE Trustworthy LLM

Taiwan-aligned: Designed around TBCL and Taiwan Mandarin teaching needs
Teacher-first workflow: Output is structured for lesson planning, not general chat
Quality improvement loop: Teacher feedback is used to iteratively improve generation quality

🛠️ What you can do with it

📖 Level-controlled Reading Generate classroom-ready texts (TBCL 1–5) with controllable difficulty—useful for warm-up reading and thematic units.	📝 Vocabulary Lists Automatically produce a usable word list to reduce prep time, while keeping teacher editability in the loop.
🧩 Grammar & Drills Generate level-appropriate examples and practice items that can be directly adapted into worksheets.	🎓 TOCFL-style Items (In Dev) Move beyond “simple Q&A” by generating practice items closer to test specifications and cognitive levels.

PI — Richard Tzong-Han Tsai (蔡宗翰)
Overall leadership; TAIDE/EDU-TAIDE technical direction.

Co-PI — Shih-Wen Chiu (邱詩雯)
Pedagogical design; teacher community engagement.

Co-PI — Ya-Fen Liu (劉雅芬)
Linguistic standards alignment & data quality control.

PM — Yuhan Weng
Project planning, execution tracking & coordination.

Outreach — Lichi Shih
Operations; teacher onboarding & events.

Tech Lead — Jason Liao
Technical architecture, product engineering & deployment.

For the full lab roster, see: People

If you would like a trial account or want to join pilot use and feedback sessions, please contact us:

ℹ️ About the project (Funding & Background)

Program: Ministry of Education — Subsidy Program for Promoting the Mandarin Education Industry
Period: 2025 (ROC 114)
Focus: TBCL-aligned generation (texts, vocabulary, grammar practice) and TOCFL-oriented item prototyping, plus teacher outreach and web deployment.