Give Your Team's Children the Cognitive Edge That Lasts a Lifetime
A 14-week, 1-to-1 live online Mandarin immersion for the children of your team.
Taught to the YCT standard, which is the gold standard and international benchmark for young Mandarin Chinese learners.
Any company can offer a perk.
Not every company knows what their people actually value.
The leaders who keep great people don't just pay them well.
They pay attention.
Lingoodle is for the company that knows the difference.
The most effective retention tools are not financial.
They are personal.
A benefit that touches a family creates loyalty that compounds over years, not quarters.
"Bilingual children outperform monolingual children on executive function tasks far more often than chance." Grundy & Bhatt, 2023 · Developmental Review
Neural Capital.
The cognitive edge.
We engineer the cognitive efficiency and executive function of a young learner through neuroscience-backed Mandarin immersion, taught to the YCT standard.
Every sprint includes a dual Language and Character track: printed workbooks shipped to the student, structured vocabulary lists, character writing practice, and digital exercises.
Every cohort features cultural stories drawn from Chinese culture, built-in revision sessions, and progress report cards at key milestones.
Executive Function
High-frequency immersion strengthens the prefrontal cortex, the centre of planning and focus. The result is lifelong cognitive discipline.
Cognitive Flexibility
Mandarin's tonal system and character-based writing activate both hemispheres simultaneously, building neural agility.
Working Memory
Daily 30-minute, 1-to-1 live online immersion sessions exercise working memory at peak intensity, building the mental capacity that carries them through school and beyond.
The 14-Week Neuro-Sprint
70 sessions.
14 weeks.
1-on-1 with specialist Mandarin educators, 30 minutes a day, five days a week, 100% online.
Taught to the YCT standard, the gold standard and international benchmark for young Mandarin Chinese learners.
First Words
Lessons 1 and 2 cover greetings, introductions, and numbers 1 to 10.
Language: Greetings and introductions. Your child learns to say hello, ask someone's name, and answer in Mandarin. Numbers 1 to 10 in spoken form.
Character: Numbers 1 to 10 (一二三四五六七八九十) as written characters, with stroke order practice from the first session. Your child also meets 你好 in written form.
Block 1 ends with a revision session and a progress report to parents. Cultural lesson: Mulan.
People & Family
Lessons 3 and 4 cover family vocabulary and how to talk about the people around them.
Language: People and family. Your child learns to name family members and say how many people are in their family.
Character: Family characters including 爸爸 (dad), 妈妈 (mum), and sibling words, each with stroke order guidance.
Block 2 ends with a revision session and a progress report to parents. Cultural lesson: Pangu.
Age & Descriptions
Lessons 5 and 6 cover numbers for age and how to describe what people look like.
Language: Numbers, age, and physical descriptions. Your child learns to ask and say how old someone is and describe people in Mandarin.
Character: Descriptive characters including 大 (big) and 小 (small), with number characters revisited in the context of age.
Block 3 ends with a revision session and a progress report to parents. Cultural lesson: Nuwa.
Places & Possessions
Lessons 7 and 8 cover possessives and places.
Language: Possessives and places. Your child learns to ask whose something is and talk about where things and people are.
Character: Ownership and location characters including 我 (I/me), 你 (you), and 在 (at/in).
Block 4 ends with a revision session and a progress report to parents. Cultural lesson: Houyi the Archer.
Days & Time
Lessons 9 and 10 cover days of the week and telling the time.
Language: Days and time. Your child learns the days of the week and how to say what time it is in Mandarin.
Character: Time and calendar characters, including the seven days of the week written in Chinese.
Block 5 ends with a revision session and a progress report to parents. Cultural lesson: Chang'e, the Moon Goddess.
Food & Final Review
Lesson 11 covers food and drink.
Language: Food and drink. Your child learns to ask for food, say what they eat and drink, and express simple preferences in Mandarin.
Character: Food and drink characters complete the written vocabulary set. The block then moves into a full review across both tracks, followed by an internal Lingoodle assessment.
Block 6 ends with the Lingoodle Certificate of Completion. Enterprise cohorts receive a Neural Capital Impact Summary. Cultural lesson: the Dragon Boat Festival.
Sprint at a Glance
8 Neuro-Protocols in Every Lesson
Every session runs on eight protocols drawn from published neuroscience.
Each one targets a specific mechanism of how children retain language.
Active Recall
Shifting from recognition to production. The learner retrieves from memory, not from prompts.
Dunlosky et al., 2013 ↗Spaced Repetition
Mathematically timed review intervals that exploit the spacing effect for permanent encoding.
Smith & Scarf, 2017 ↗Total Physical Response
Movement-based anchoring. The body learns with the mind, cementing vocabulary through gesture.
Asher, 1969 ↗Dual Coding
Visual and verbal input encoded together. Memory traces are deeper and more durable.
Sadoski & Paivio, 2013 ↗Cognitive Load Management
Deliberate pacing prevents burnout and keeps the brain operating at peak absorption.
Sweller, 1988 ↗Pomodoro Method
High-intensity sprints exploit the primacy and recency effects for deep first-and-last encoding.
Murdock, 1962 ↗Social Scaffolding
Cultural context, stories, and real-world scenarios drive engagement. Language in context sticks longer.
Vygotsky, 1978 ↗Micro-Immersion
Short, daily, high-frequency contact builds language faster than infrequent marathon sessions.
Bahrick & Hall, 2005 ↗Every evening, your child closes the laptop
as the expert.
Each Neuro-Sprint session ends with one task: the child explains one new concept to their parent that night.
Explaining it out loud is what makes it stick.
This is the Feynman Loop, the deepest form of learning known to cognitive science. When a child teaches, they have to truly understand. The understanding locks in. It sits comfortably in the evening routine: five minutes between a parent and their child, built around something the child genuinely masters.
Four Levels. One Pathway.
Compounding Neural Capital.
Four YCT levels.
Four 14-week Neuro-Sprints.
Each sprint builds on the last, deepening linguistic fluency in Mandarin and cognitive fluency across every area of learning.
Most programmes take a full academic year per YCT level.
Lingoodle delivers each in 14 weeks.
By YCT 4, your child has 600 words and a cognitive edge they carry well beyond the classroom.
Enterprise partners are first in line as each new level opens.
Foundation
Tones, core vocabulary, basic phrases. 104 words. The cognitive ignition point where Neural Capital begins.
Now EnrollingExpansion
Extended vocabulary, complex sentence structure, wider character recognition. 150+ words.
Fluency
Advanced grammar patterns, deeper character fluency, longer and more natural dialogue. 300+ words.
Mastery
Advanced reading comprehension, deep cultural knowledge, communication without scaffolding. 600+ words.
Built for Leaders Who Know Their People
Lingoodle is purchased by companies as a benefit for their people.
You decide who receives it.
We handle everything else.
A Legacy Perk for the company that means it.
One that tells your team: we invest in your family, not just your career.
Principals & Partners
Not every benefit is right for everyone. Offering this one tells the parents on your team that you've been paying attention.
People & Culture Leaders
Strengthen your benefits programme. Lingoodle sits at the same tier as concierge medicine and family office services. Benefits that tell your people their family matters.
Builders & Makers
For teams building fast, this is the benefit that says you're thinking long-term.
Built on Science.
Proven in Practice.
Lingoodle is built on a foundation that took decades of research to establish.
Eight teaching protocols, each backed by published learning science.
A curriculum designed by experienced Mandarin educators.
Infrastructure built to GDPR standards from day one.
Peer-Reviewed Foundation
Every Neuro-Protocol maps to published neuroscience. Our curriculum cites Grundy & Bhatt (2023, Developmental Review), the spacing effect literature, and Total Physical Response research. Handwriting and physical materials build deeper encoding than screens alone. That is why every Lingoodle sprint includes physical workbooks alongside digital resources. The cognitive benefits of bilingualism for executive function are reviewed in Bialystok, Craik & Luk (2012, Trends in Cognitive Sciences). We show our work.
Built to Compliance Standards
Operating within a GDPR and COPPA framework. Sub-processors are Zoom and Stripe, each with EU data residency commitments. An independent Irish company with no government affiliation.
Measurable Impact Framework
Cohorts with 5 or more children receive an anonymised Neural Capital Impact Summary: vocabulary acquisition, character recognition, session completion, and executive function indicators. You invest with clear metrics, not faith.
I found mine late.
They shouldn't have to.
Lauralee O'Donovan is dyslexic, and by her own account, no one's idea of a star pupil. Languages were the worst of it: Irish, French, German. She assumed none of them were for her. Then in her thirties she started learning Mandarin and found the characters came naturally, fast enough that her teachers were comparing notes. Chinese is visual and almost musical, and for a dyslexic mind that can be a doorway rather than a wall. She built Lingoodle for the children who haven't found their edge yet, especially the ones who don't think of themselves as clever.
No surprises.
No guesswork.
For the firm, it's the cost of one good hire.
- 1 child enrolled
- 70 sessions · 35 hours of 1-on-1 immersion
- Full 14-week YCT 1 Neuro-Sprint
- 1-on-1 with specialist Mandarin educator
- 8 Neuro-Protocols in every lesson
- Physical workbooks and digital downloads
- GDPR compliant data security
- 5 children enrolled
- 70 sessions · 35 hours each · 1-on-1
- Full 14-week YCT 1 Neuro-Sprint per learner
- 1-on-1 with specialist Mandarin educators
- 8 Neuro-Protocols in every lesson
- Physical workbooks and digital downloads
- Neural Capital report across your 5-child cohort
- Dedicated enterprise support contact
- GDPR and COPPA compliant
- 10 dedicated seats for children of your team
- 70 sessions · 35 hours each · 1-on-1
- Full 14-week YCT 1 Neuro-Sprint per learner
- 1-on-1 with specialist Mandarin educators
- 8 Neuro-Protocols in every lesson
- Physical workbooks and digital downloads
- Anonymised Neural Capital Impact Summary
- GDPR and COPPA compliant data security
- Dedicated enterprise support
- Priority continuation into YCT 2–4
100 seats.
One intake.
First come, first allocated.
Each global cohort is capped at 100 children.
The cap protects instruction quality.
Enterprise partners are first in line when YCT 2, 3, and 4 open.
The firms that commit now will have been here from the start.
Your Questions, Answered
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When does the next cohort start?
What does a child need to participate?
Can seats be allocated to children in different countries?
What happens if a child misses a session?
How is progress reported to the company?
Does my child receive a certificate?
Is Lingoodle affiliated with the Chinese government?
Two Ways In
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Teach children who are ready to learn.
We work with native Mandarin speakers who are serious about teaching.
Sessions are 1-on-1, 30 minutes, Monday to Sunday via Zoom.
Every lesson is built around one child's level, pace, and goals.
To apply, send us:
- Your CV
- A link to a short teaching video if you have one (optional, no children to appear). You can send this later.
- The age ranges you are happy to teach (5–8, 9–12, 13–16)
Shortlisted applicants will be invited to teach a short prepared lesson. We want to see your style and the quality of content you bring.