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Intermediate Mandarin – Speak with fluency
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 gifting Understanding of…
Find out more »Entry Intermediate Mandarin – Speak with ease
Description 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 conversations with Chinese people - such as booking hotels, buy tickets, chat about the weather, your hobbies, food, family and work Describe common situations with an expanded vocabulary and converse in richer detail Construct simple sentences in the correct tense and order correctly with less help from others The course includes…
Find out more »Advanced Beginner Mandarin – Survival Plus
Description This is the logical second half of the Beginner level course. We will continue to help you acquire the most useful conversational skills across a range of frequently encountered topics. Expand your Mandarin to more challenging life topics, with increased fluency Speak confidently about work, family and travel, expressing simple needs, wants and opinions Enjoy eating out and drinking, including with Chinese friends or Chinese business contacts Understand and communicate more effectively in normal conversations with Chinese people about…
Find out more »Advanced Mandarin – HSK 4 (3)
Course Overview This course focuses primarily on helping you to develop a richer use of the language more similar to a native speaker and develop more advanced written and formal Chinese vocabulary often used in business, books and reports: You will be joining our existing group of enthusiastic students, to finish lessons 7 - 10 of the HSK4 (上) textbook (for other advanced levels, please contact us for details) Able to use more advanced, elaborate adjectives, verbs, colloquialism and sentence…
Find out more »Advanced Mandarin – HSK 4 (1)
Course Overview This course focuses primarily on helping you to develop a richer use of the language more similar to a native speaker and develop more advanced written Chinese vocabulary often used in business, books and reports: You will be joining our existing group of enthusiastic students, to start on the HSK4 (上) textbook (for other advanced levels, please contact us for details) Able to use more advanced adjectives, verbs, colloquialism and sentence structures to describe your life, work, feelings…
Find out more »Discovering China at the British Museum (Part 1): The roots of Chinese civilisation
Overview Interested in Chinese history, culture and traditions? In part 1 of the tour, we will travel back through time to 5000 BC and discover the fundamental principles of the Chinese culture. Looking at key objects from each dynasty, we will learn about the craftsmanship techniques which were used in those years and which were passed on from one generation to the next one. We will look into the key principles which still drive the Chinese culture, such as the importance of…
Find out more »Discovering China at the British Museum (Part 2): The evolution of trade and political relationships
Overview Interested in Chinese history, culture and traditions? In part 2 of our tour, we will discover how the evolution of the political, economic and social system of China resulted in the country slowly opening up to the Western culture. As superbly-crafted Chinese artefacts started being exported to neighbouring countries and even to the Mediterranean area through “silk roads”, China got exposed to the influence of several different cultures, societies and religions. Moreover, as the diplomatic and bureaucratic system developed and became…
Find out more »Chinese Festival: Dragon Boat & Food!
Overview Come and celebrate the Chinese Dragon Boat festival with us! The Dragon Boat festival, also called Duanwu jie (端午节) is a fun tradition, celebrated on the 5th day of the 5th month of the Chinese calendar each year. The festival traces back to more than 2,000 years ago, where Chinese people commemorate Qu Yuan (340 – 278 BC), an ancient Chinese patriotic poet. In 2008 the festival was made a statutory public holiday in China and many more people…
Find out more »Discovering China at the British Museum (Part 1): The roots of Chinese civilisation
Overview Interested in Chinese history, culture and traditions? In part 1 of the tour, we will travel back through time to 5000 BC and discover the fundamental principles of the Chinese culture. Looking at key objects from each dynasty, we will learn about the craftsmanship techniques which were used in those years and which were passed on from one generation to the next one. We will look into the key principles which still drive the Chinese culture, such as the importance of…
Find out more »Discovering China at the British Museum (Part 2): The evolution of trade and political relationships
Overview Interested in Chinese history, culture and traditions? In part 2 of our tour, we will discover how the evolution of the political, economic and social system of China resulted in the country slowly opening up to the Western culture. As superbly-crafted Chinese artefacts started being exported to neighbouring countries and even to the Mediterranean area through “silk roads”, China got exposed to the influence of several different cultures, societies and religions. Moreover, as the diplomatic and bureaucratic system developed and became…
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