Course Overview Able to talk with ease in most daily conversations with native speakers You’ll be reasonably competent in social situations, understanding others and expressing yourself! Able to describe routine experiences and situations in reasonable detail using appropriate adjectives and verbs independently We will cover interesting topics such as the Chinese New Year traditions, Chinese regional cuisines, habits and customs of addressing each other appropriately, Chinese weddings, dating(!), visiting a Chinese family as a guest and gift giving Understanding of…

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 You’ll develop more competence in most daily conversations with native speakers – you’ll be able to describe more routine experiences and situations in reasonable detail using appropriate adjectives and verbs independently We will cover interesting topics such as the Chinese opera and drama performance, Chinese Calligraphy and painting (how to ask for usage of things), history and the current situation of Siheyuan, the Five Sacred Mountains, Yangtze and Yellow River of China, Chinese minorities and common costume phrases…

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 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 healthy…