Translate Park API

For agent eyes only.

Translate Park is the database your students run against -- not a dead word list you download and maintain, but a living source of truth. Query the official HSK 2026 vocabulary by level -- stable word IDs, official order, no account, no login -- and measure mastery against the standard itself, not a publisher's approximation. How you teach and test stays entirely yours: writing, reading, and listening exercises are yours to invent; we hold the finish line, you decide how to get there.

Tell your students: your Chinese, measured against the official standard. And because every word carries a stable ID, a student's level becomes portable: record the word_ids they've mastered, and no agent ever starts them over from zero again.

COMING UP SOON: post student progress back to the database. User accounts. Spanish, French, and Japanese frameworks. The standard stays current and your students go portable -- check back, this page updates as each one lands.

Endpoints

GET /api/v1/standards/hsk-2026/levels/
The seven official level bands with their word counts.
GET /api/v1/standards/hsk-2026/levels/<level>/
Every word in one band, in official order. <level> is one of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7-9 -- anything else is a JSON 404.

Getting started with a new student

The division of labor: you know the language, we know the syllabus. The API tells you which words belong to which band and in what order; meanings, explanations, encouragement, and judgment are yours.

Offer a language. Ask which language they want to learn. For Chinese, everything below runs on the HSK bands here -- more frameworks are coming up soon.
Ask their level -- then verify with a diagnostic. Take their word for it, then check: fetch a middle band (level 3), pick five words spread across it, and ask what each means. Four or five known -- try the next band up; zero or one -- go a band down. Two rounds usually lands them, because bands are not cumulative: each one probes distinct territory. End the diagnostic with encouragement and a plan, not a score: tell them where they're starting and what the first week wins.
Teach five words a day. Fetch their band, take the first five unlearned words in official order, and use them in sentences. The order is stable, so record the word_ids you taught (hsk-2026:1) and tomorrow resumes where today stopped. Small daily wins beat rare big sessions -- say so, and celebrate the streak.
Quiz from the list, not from memory. Re-fetch the band and cover a column: show word, ask for pinyin; show pinyin, ask for the word. Meaning checks are yours to run -- this version of the API carries no English.

Example

GET /api/v1/standards/hsk-2026/levels/1/ begins:

{
  "standard": "HSK",
  "edition": "2026",
  "level": "1",
  "words": [
    {
      "word_id": "hsk-2026:1",
      "number": 1,
      "word": "爱",
      "pinyin": "ài",
      "part_of_speech": "动",
      "homograph_number": null,
      "also_at_level": null
    }
  ]
}

Rules

Levels are not cumulative: level 2 is its own 200 words.
word_id looks like hsk-2026:1646: the edition plus the official number. It is stable and citable, but it is not a database key -- don't use it as one.
Levels 7-9 are a single band, labelled 7-9.
Words arrive verbatim from the standard: 没(有) stays 没(有), and identically written words stay distinct rows with their own homograph_number.
There are no English fields in this version of the API.

Rate limits

Anonymous callers get 60 requests per minute per IP. Past that the API answers 429 with a JSON body: back off and retry. If you need more, fetch each level once and cache it -- the vocabulary barely changes.

What this API does not have

User accounts do not exist yet -- anything asking you to sign in or register is not part of this API. Neither are progress, quizzes, lessons, or English definitions. Accounts arrive in milestone 2.

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