This document provides an overview of an app called Pandy that is intended to be a comprehensive learning platform for Mandarin Chinese. It outlines the context, targets, prototype, strategy, business model, benchmarks, budget, and value proposition. The key points are:
1) Pandy aims to provide online courses at different levels, interactive content, and tools for daily learning of Mandarin Chinese.
2) The target users include students learning Chinese, teachers, and institutions.
3) The prototype outlines a tree structure of content including courses, videos, dialogues, and other functions.
4) The strategy discusses pricing, promotion through social media and influencers, and partnerships with schools.
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Context
Our intentions
according to the
context of Chinese
learning.
Targets
Our targets,
personas and
user story.
Prototype
The specific
functionality of
the application.
Strategy
Marketing and
sales strategy.
Business
Business model
or revenue
model of our
service.
Benchmark
The competitive
services in the
market.
Budget
The budget of
projet
development.
Why us
How we are
different than the
other players.
5. As Chinese is the most spoken language in the world, many
people have developed interest in Chinese. However, qualified
Chinese teachers or Chinese learning tools are not available
in many cities.
Language institutions cost too much and doesn’t provide
personalised services.
Social Trends
6. Current situation
Currently, learning Mandarin can be very daunting for most
occidentals because of its different alphabet and pronunciation.
Learning a new language can be very difficult if it’s not
interactive and fun.
It’s easy to get discouraged: when the learning process is too
boring, too slow or too fast.
7. 01 - A simple translate tool
Most of the Mandarin Chinese learning apps don’t provide
interactive services, which means they are just simple
translating tools rather than an active learning tool.
03 - Not for French users
There is no application that is specially designed for French
users, the existing applications don’t integrate French
culture into the design or the lessons.
05 - Can not meet all the needs
There is no application that includes all levels, users uninstall
the application after they have made some progress.
02 - Not interesting
Most of the Mandarin Chinese learning apps don’t engage
interactive learning, They lose users because the lack of
interesting and regularly updated content.
04 - No Systematic learning platform
There’s no platform that regroups online Mandarin courses,
users cannot keep the same learning app for further needs.
Learning apps
8. Intentions
Provide a complete and
systematic platform for
Mandarin learning.
Provide different online
courses for students in
different levels.
Provide a practical
teaching tool for
Chinese teachers.
Provide a portable
learning tool for
daily use.
9. Highlights
Usilibility
Active Levels
An app that also works offline, you
can download the lessons so that
you can get the most out of them.
A Chinese language app shouldn’t be just
a dead and dull translation tool. A good
learning app encourages you to think.
You are able to choose settings that
correspond to your own level. This helps to
keep your learning structured, prevents
you from getting overwhelmed and in
some ways inspires you to “level-up.”
12. Targets
Students
who want to apply for an erasmus
program, who want to learn
Mandarin with additional
supports.
Students
who are already in
China and would like to
improve their level in a
particular sector.
Students
who want to learn
Chinese by themselves as
a hobby or as a
communication tool.
Teachers
who want to offer their
students an additional
learning tool.
Institutions/Universities
who want to improve students’
performance in their study and
help them understand Chinese
culture better.
13. Lucas Martin
Age: 22
Character: Student
University: University of
Western Brittany
Major: Applied Foreign
Languages (English, Chinese,
French)
Family: Single
Location: Brest, France
Bio
Lucas is a student who is in the first year of Applied Foreign
Languages at University of Western Brittany.
He takes two-hour Chinese lessons every day. He is
attracted by Chinese culture and has signed up for an
exchange program in China. He will go to China in 6 months,
but he’s still a beginner in Chinese. Therefore, he wants to
take some extra learning courses to improve his speaking
level and intensity his understanding in Chinese culture.
Goals
● To improve his speaking level
● To get a general view of Chinese culture
● To find an interesting learning tool
● To prepare his Chinese level test in 3 months
Frustrations
● Difficulty in finding a systematic learning tool
● Difficulty in finding an appropriate learning strategy
● Difficulty in summarizing the knowledge he has learned
● Difficulty in finding Chinese movies with French subtitle
Motivations
Incentive
Fear
Achievements
Preferred Channels
Traditional Ads
Social Media
Referral
Blogs & Online articles
Personality
Extrovert
Hard-working
Conservative
Thinking
Introvert
Indolent
Liberal
Feeling
It’s not about being the best.
It’s about being better than
you were yesterday.
14. Chloé Laurent
Age: 26
Character: Student
University: Wuhan University
Major: Business &
Management
Family: Single
Location: Wuhan, China
Bio
Chloé is a master student who majors in business &
management at Wuhan University in China. She has been in
China for 2 years and she already has adequate speaking,
reading and listening skills.
She would like to stay in China and work as a hotel manager
in the future, therefore, she would love to improve her writing
and speaking skills in her field of expertise. However, she
doesn’t know how to learn Chinese for business.
Goals
● To improve her Chinese level of business
● To get a better understanding of the differences between
Eastern and Western cultures in management and
business
● To improve her communication skills in Chinese
Frustrations
● Difficulty in finding a systematic learning tool
● Difficulty in finding an appropriate learning strategy for an
advanced level
● Difficulty in learning Chinese for business usage
● Difficulty in communicating professionally in working place
Motivations
Incentive
Fear
Achievements
Preferred Channels
Traditional Ads
Social Media
Referral
Blogs & Online articles
Personality
Extrovert
Hard-working
Conservative
Thinking
Introvert
Indolent
Liberal
Feeling
Success consists of going
from failure to failure without
loss of enthusiasm.
15. Liu Feifei
Age: 36
Work: Chinese teacher
University: University of Paris 8
Family: Married, 2 kids
Location: Paris, France
Bio
Feifei is a Chinese teacher at University Paris of 8 and has a
sizeable following of students.
Feifei wakes up around 6am to meditate before teaching
her 8am class at her university.
She uses a comprehensive Chinese and Chinese culture
teaching method, but still has some difficulties in helping
students in different level. She wants to make a balance
between active learning and passive learning.
Goals
● To raise her students’ interests in learning Chinese
● To provide her students with a comprehensive learning
environment
● To find an interesting learning tool for her students
● To give her students extra learning tasks that fits each
one’s level
Frustrations
● Difficulty in motivating her students
● Difficulty in finding the appropriate teaching methods for
students in different levels
● Difficulty in providing a fun learning experience
Motivations
Incentive
Fear
Achievements
Preferred Channels
Traditional Ads
Social Media
Referral
Blogs & Online articles
Personality
Extrovert
Creative
Conservative
Thinking
Introvert
Analytical
Liberal
Feeling
I love being able to combine
my interest and knowledge
in eastern and western
philosophies to achieve
wellbeing and inner peace.
20. Product
To test your level and to make
sure the application
automatically choose the right
courses for you.
A test after your first
connection
Online courses
Online courses for
different levels (beginner,
intermediate, advanced).
Online courses for
different subjects (exam,
business, speaking,
grammar, writing).
Practical Chinese
dialogues with French
subtitle and using
context.
One sentence each day
Videos, images
about Chinese
history, cooking,
traveling, news, big
events.
Photos/videos
Music/FM
Other affiliated
functions as: music, FM,
novel, audio book, etc.
21. Price
We provide free online
courses for beginners
and free trial lecture for
all courses.
We provide paid
courses for medium
and advanced.
We offer VIP exclusive
services, all the online
courses are free for
VIPs.
We offer discount for
institutions or schools
when they purchase our
app for their students.
22. Place
Chinese learners and create an
online community (encourage
current learners)
Different teaching
institutions, universities,
schools
Mandarin Chinese teachers all over the
world (native speakers)
23. Promotion
Partner with allies
User generated
Content
Comment
Share experience
Channels and
platforms
Collaborate with
influencers
Use big data to
target customers
Tell a cross-media
story
Tips for Chinese
learning
User stories
User guide, user
stories, interviews
Tips for Chinese
learning, user
stories
25. A mobile application to learn
Mandarin with appropriate
courses for different levels, to
learn while having fun, to
discover Chinese culture
through different categories
like food, landscape.
Our offers
Distribution and
communication
We communicate with
customers on Facebook,
Instagram, YouTube and
Wechat to gain
feedbacks.
With ads, medium and
advanced courses,
partnership with
universities, colleges and
language institutions.
Revenue sources
Customer benefits:
learning Mandarin
while having fun, the
promise to learn well,
fast and be able to
speak Mandarin
within 3 months.
Revenue model
Partners
Universities, teachers,
language institutions
Business model
28. Our goals
In one year In two years In five years
● Enter into the market
● Gain large public attention by
collaborating with institutions
and schools
● By telling stories on social media
● Increase the number of subscribers
● Adapt our personal method for books
● Be the most used application to learn
Mandarin
● Be used in numerous universities and
colleges across the world
31. Positive Points Negative Points Conclusion
● Interactive lessons:
speaking, writing and
listening
● The immersion lessons
● Personalized training
● Daily goals
● Tips and notes at the
beginning of the lesson
● To unlock other steps you
have to finish the basic one
only for beginners
● A very interactive app for
people who want to learn
Mandarin from A to Z
33. Positive Points Negative Points Conclusion
● Amusing
● The memo function
● Speaking, listening and
writing plus writing the
characters
● The score system is
encouraging the learner
● Numerous categories
● You can take a test to unlock
all the categories
● You can’t quit the exercise,
you have to quit the app
● You have to pass a test to
unlock the other categories
● It’s not clear if you have to
test yourself on all the
categories or only one
● A good app if you are a very
beginner
35. Positive Points Negative Points Conclusion
● The ability to set goals each
day to learn words,
sentences each day
● Fundamental basic
questions, words and
sentences
● ”Hot and cold” review to let
you know what you need to
work on or not
● The aesthetic is quite simple
● No levels
● No category to learn the
basics like the alphabet
● A basic app useful to learn
words and expression
39. Why us
Learning a new language is very exciting at the beginning, but
people tend to get discouraged as they say
“ It’s too difficult, I don’t have time anymore”.
Most of the time they lose their motivation because of the material. If
it’s not entertaining and if you can’t see any results quickly,
everybody will give up.
40. Why us
Lots of people want to learn Chinese for many reasons, however, Mandarin
lessons with a physical teacher or even via Skype can be very expensive,
around 30 dollars an hour, and when your are a student it’s a substantial
budget.
Finding an application to learn Mandarin is very
easy but finding a very good one is rather difficult.
41. Why us
With Pandy, you can learn Mandarin at your own rhythm and see
your progress.
Pandy also offers some cultural lessons that allow students to
discover more about China and its culture.
With Pandy, it’s a total immersion in the Chinese language and
culture.