Learn Go in Chinese

Weiqi is the Chinese name for Go, and China is where the game began more than two thousand years ago. It is also where many of the strongest professionals come from today, trained in a system known for relentless reading and fighting. Learning in Chinese plugs you into that line directly.

You can take every lesson in Chinese. Some of our teachers are native speakers, Mandarin or Cantonese, so the lesson runs in Chinese directly. With the rest, live captions translate the whole lesson into Chinese as the teacher speaks, and your questions back into theirs. Either way you study in Chinese, in the language the game was born in.

What a lesson looks like

You meet on a shared board over video. Your teacher plays out variations while you both watch the same stones, and everything reaches you in Chinese the whole time, through game review and life-and-death reading alike. You bring a game or a question, and you leave with one or two things to fix before the next lesson.

Common questions

Do all the teachers speak Chinese?

Some are native Mandarin or Cantonese speakers; the rest teach with live captions that render the whole lesson in Chinese as they speak. Each profile shows the languages a teacher speaks, so you can pick a native speaker or any teacher with captions.

Mandarin or Cantonese?

Both are available among the native speakers. Each profile lists the dialect a teacher speaks, and for any other teacher the lesson is captioned into Chinese.