PROGRESSION

HSK as visibility, not as a cage.

HSK levels provide a clean progression spine, but the site should keep linking words to cities, characters, songs, radicals, and reading comprehension.

HSK1

HSK1 Core

first recognition layer

The first measurable unlock: basic people, places, time, food, transport, question words, and core verbs.

HSK1recognitionstarter

target: 150 words
unlock: simple menus, greetings, family, numbers

motivation

Reading Percent

understand more of the page

Future articles can show how many characters or words a learner already recognizes inside real text.

motivationanalyticsreading

example: You recognize 18% of this text.