How it started
My son's Chinese is good. Better than mine will ever be — which, honestly, isn't saying much. I don't speak Chinese at all.
I started experimenting with AI to help him practise his spoken Chinese at home — because I certainly can't. What surprised me was how well it worked. He was getting real feedback, real conversation, and actually improving. And I didn't need to understand Chinese myself to see it happening.
That got me thinking about who else this could help.
What I found
The more I talked to parents, the more I heard the same frustration. PSLE Chinese Oral is high-stakes and there's almost no way to practise it effectively at home. Tuition helps, but there's limited individual speaking time. Assessment books can't teach speaking. And while there are plenty of general AI language tools out there, nothing was built for the actual PSLE oral format — the reading aloud, the examiner conversation, the follow-up questions.
That felt like a gap worth closing.
What I built
PSLEPrep is an AI examiner that conducts realistic PSLE oral practice — the 朗读 reading component with pronunciation feedback, and the 会话 conversation with follow-up probes when answers are too short. Everything scored, everything explained in both Chinese and English so parents can actually understand what's going on.
It's not a replacement for your child's tutor. It's the practice they do between lessons — as many times as they want, whenever they want, with feedback every time.