Overview This course focuses primarily on helping you, as a beginner, to acquire basic conversational skills across a range of survival topics. These are your realistic expectations: Master Pin-yin pronunciation, so you can pronounce people’s names, cities and signs properly! Sail through basic conversations in Mandarin with ordinary Chinese people. You’ll be able to  exchange basic greetings, share and ask personal information such as name, job, home, nationality, your daily routine, and order food and drink items String simple sentences…

Overview This is the second part of the Beginner level course. We will continue to help you acquire essential conversational skills across a range of frequently encountered topics. Understand and communicate more effectively with Chinese people about basic personal information, such as age, contact details and daily routines Start to make simple social conversations in Mandarin such as - travel plans, leisure activities, ordering a drink, and making arrangements to go out with Chinese friends or business contacts A fun…

Overview You will build on a much broader vocabulary and embark on more ambitious conversations across a far wider range of real-life scenarios. Great expectations! Understand and engage more effectively in good daily conversations with Chinese people - such as buying things at a shop, ordering food and drinks, talking about needs and wants, and chatting about the weather in Mandarin! Get around with basic travel phrases - getting around public transport, getting tickets at the train station and asking for directions Start to…

Course Overview In this course you’ll develop more competence in daily conversations.  While you’ll still have limited vocabulary to participate in deeper conversations, you will begin to understand other’s speeches more, and get a ‘general sense’ of most daily conversations in Mandarin Chinese! 加油！ We will cover interesting cultural topics such as visiting a Chinese family, gift giving, addressing extended family, the Chinese opera, Chinese Calligraphy and Chinese painting (how to ask for usage of things), including fun Chinese idioms…

Course Overview Building on our HSK 4 (Part 1) course, this course will continue to help you acquire a richer use of the Chinese language and develop a good understanding of advanced level words used in everyday life, business, books and reports: Have deeper conversations about everyday life experiences and opinions, such as attitudes to work and making money, managing time and projects effectively, shopping for quality vs quantity, criteria for buying decisions Use more advanced, elaborate adjectives, verbs, colloquialisms…

Course Overview Building on our Advanced HSK 4 (Part 2) course, this course will continue to help you acquire a richer use of the Mandarin language like a native Chinese speaker and develop good understanding of advanced words used in everyday life, business, books and reports: Have deeper conversations about everyday topics such as – expressing opinion about price vs quality, the benefits of green food, describing promotions and sales, describing illness, smoking and health, and how to maintain a…

Overview You’ll expand your Mandarin to more challenging daily life topics, with richer details and increased fluency. Enjoy travelling to China with more independence – learn how to check in to a hotel, make specific requests, describe missing items and explain simple situations Start to expand beyond simple polite ‘information sharing’ to ‘chit chat’ conversations - expressing likes and dislikes, express conditions, opinion, reasoning, and making phone calls to family and business colleagues on basic routine matters Continue to primarily…

Course Overview This course focuses on helping to develop your ability to sustain a good daily conversation with native speakers with confidence, fluency, and less risk of misunderstanding! You will also get rich insights into China’s heritage. We will cover interesting topics such as Chinese poems, history and the current situation of Beijing’s traditional architecture Siheyuan (四合院), China’s Five Sacred Mountains, Yangtze and Yellow River of China, Chinese minorities and common costume phrases Use more complex sentence structures and tenses…