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AP Chinese Language and Culture flashcards

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Written against: College Board AP Chinese Language and Culture Course and Exam Description: the decks follow the six themes of the CED used through 2025–26; the revised CED takes effect in fall 2026 (six thematic units, first revised exam May 2027). Updated 2026-10-10.

What's in it

Every deck follows the course outline, with tags you can study or suspend topic by topic. Open a deck to study its free sample right here.

Learn · 1 deck · 78 cards

Concepts, mechanisms and the questions a course or exam asks about them.

Language and Culture Intermediate and advanced vocabulary for AP Chinese reading, listening and writing, grouped by the six course themes used through 2025–26, plus festivals, etiquette and common chengyu, and the connectors (尽管, 因此, 总之, 无论) that structure an essay. Tone-marked pinyin and traditional forms. 10 free · 78 cards in the app

Practice · 1 deck · 50 questions

Multiple-choice practice questions, one best answer each, with the reasoning.

Practice Questions Multiple-choice practice questions, one best answer each, on AP Chinese reading: theme vocabulary and measure words in context, notices and messages, festivals, etiquette, chengyu and connectors. Grouped by the six course themes used through 2025–26, plus culture and connector sets. 6 free · 50 questions in the app

Study guide

Topics covered

The decks follow the order of the course outline. Numbers are cards per topic.

  • Families and Communities 15
  • Personal and Public Identities 15
  • Beauty and Aesthetics 15
  • Science and Technology 15
  • Contemporary Life 15
  • Global Challenges 16
  • Culture 23
    • Festivals 9
    • Etiquette 6
    • Chengyu 8
  • Formal Writing Connectors 14

A study plan

  • 5 new cards a day covers everything in a month, leaving the last weeks for review.

Willys schedules reviews for you (FSRS spaced repetition), so the daily number above is only for new cards; reviews of what you have learned come back on their own. Study a topic's cards right after you meet it in class, suspend topics you have not reached yet, and use the app's quiz mode in the final two weeks.

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  3. Study. The exam comes in as its own collapsible folder, every card scheduled by FSRS spaced repetition. Nothing you already have is changed.

Every deck is built into Willys

All 2 AP Chinese Language and Culture decks (128 cards), with FSRS spaced repetition, quizzes and mock tests, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. 14-day free trial, then $14.99 a year.

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In Willys, tap Exam Library at the top of your Decks (or Browse Exam Library… under the + button), find the exam on its shelf or by search, tick it and tap Add.

About these cards

Review status: Second-reader reviewed, with corrections applied.

Checked against:

  • Topic outline follows the six themes of the College Board's AP Chinese Language and Culture Course and Exam Description in use through 2025–26 (the AP name is used nominatively; no course or exam text reproduced). The revised course framework takes effect in fall 2026, with the first revised exam, given in Bluebook, in May 2027.
  • Pinyin, tones, traditional forms and meanings checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) and, for traditional forms and Taiwan usage, the Taiwan Ministry of Education's Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary (via moedict.tw); connector usage checked against the HSK examination syllabus (HSK 考试大纲) published by the Center for Language Education and Cooperation in November 2025 and the Ministry's Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary and Cross-Strait Dictionary (兩岸常用詞典, via moedict.tw) (reference only; no text copied). Few words repeat the HSK 1–3 decks: 留学, 发展, 生活, 健康, 外卖 and 环境 appear in both. All example sentences are original.
  • Vocabulary, pinyin and usage checked against the Xiandai Hanyu Cidian (Contemporary Chinese Dictionary, 7th ed.), CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) and the Taiwan Ministry of Education's Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary (via moedict.tw; CC BY-ND 3.0 TW); the waste-sorting sign checked against the national standard GB/T 19095-2019 (reference only; no text copied).

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