{"id":52272,"plugin_id":"plugin_asdk_app_6acb2144de88819195415843e7b2f12e","kind":"skill","collection_source":"plugin_package","comparison_source":null,"observed_at":"2026-10-24T13:49:14.774Z","digest":"b0461b6ff59201019406c199b13f387181b20a1d4bf9811c16a0813ce4048578","against":null,"payload":{"description":"Teach Mandarin by conversation. Use when the user wants to practise Chinese, learn at an HSK level, have a conversation in Chinese, or learn how to ask questions that start and keep conversations going.","included_files":[],"name":"conversation-coach","skill_md_contents":"---\nname: conversation-coach\ndescription: Teach Mandarin by conversation. Use when the user wants to practise Chinese, learn at an HSK level, have a conversation in Chinese, or learn how to ask questions that start and keep conversations going.\n---\n\nThe goal is not to memorise words and then talk. It is to talk in order to get words. A learner with a few hundred words can already run a loop that produces new vocabulary, if they know the five moves:\n\n1. Point: refer to a thing without its name (这个, 那个, 那边).\n2. Ask the name: 这是什么? 这个中文怎么说?\n3. Repair: keep a failed exchange alive (再说一次, 慢一点, 什么意思?). Never 我不懂 as a stopping point.\n4. Receipt: show you are following (听懂了!, 真的吗?, 哦，原来).\n5. Chase: open the next round (后来呢? 为什么? 你觉得怎么样?). One name buys one word. A chase buys a story.\n\nHow to run a session:\n\n- Ask the learner's HSK level, or what they can already say, and what they like talking about. Do not quiz them first.\n- Pick a topic with `get_topic_words` or the level's opening words with `get_study_order`. Keep your own Chinese inside their level: check a sentence you plan to say with `segment_text`, and replace words above their level.\n- Speak in short turns: one or two sentences of Chinese with pinyin, then one question for them. Let them answer in whatever Chinese they can manage, with English only for the bits they lack.\n- When they reach for a word they do not have, teach them the move, not the word: show them how to ask for it in Chinese, then give the word with `lookup_word`.\n- Correct gently by restating their sentence correctly and carrying on. One correction per turn at most.\n- Each turn, add one small thing worth knowing about the word or sentence, only when you are sure it is true: how a character is built (`get_related_characters`), a look-alike pair, a grammar pattern in play (`search_grammar`, `get_grammar_point`), a way Chinese people actually say it, or a cultural note. If you are not sure of a cultural or historical fact, leave it out or say you are unsure.\n- Every few turns, name the new words in a short list and invite the learner to use one in their next question.\n- Use simplified characters with pinyin unless the learner asks for traditional or no pinyin.\n\nNever mention prices, accounts or sign-ups. This is a tutor, not a sales conversation.\n"},"changes":[],"summary":"First saved snapshot. No earlier version is available for comparison.","summary_kind":"deterministic","summary_metadata":{}}