When You Speak Mandarin, People Listen
Communicate in Mandarin effortlessly. Whether it’s socialising, requesting information, presenting an argument, discussing an issue, explaining a situation, criticising a social ill, or suggesting a solution, our Mandarin Chinese courses are designed to make sure that happens.
Students learn Mandarin right to start, understand Chinese grammar correctly from the beginning, tune their pronunciation efficiently, and get adequate listening and speaking exercises they need.
All Chinese courses are designed for non-Chinese speakers.
Mandarin audio lessons are for beginner students to learn Mandarin Chinese with a focus on listening comprehension and repetition, helping students acquire targeted languages, improve their pronunciations, and develop their listening skills.
Chinese video lessons are for beginner students to start learning how to read and write Chinese with ease. Step by step, these video lessons help students learn Chinese characters, words and combinations, grammar points, and guide them to the path of developing sound Chinese reading and writing skills. Supplementary worksheets (PDF) are available for re-enforcement.
Private lessons and group classes are taught by teacher April, covering all available Chinese courses.
Mandarin Audio Lessons on Speaking and Listening
Mandarin Express Intro Level A
This audio course is for beginners students. Starting from pinyin, it enables students to introduce themselves in Mandarin in a sophisticated and coherent manner and to have meaningful social interactions in life and at work.
Mandarin Express Intro Level B
This is the second Mandarin audio course in the series. Building up from the previous one, this course gives students the ability to speak Mandarin in a wide social spectrum, and to speak Mandarin with confidence and clarity.
Mandarin Express Basic Level A
As the third one in the series, this Mandarin audio course introduces important vocabularies around superb topics and provides sufficient listening exercises, which will bring students’ conversational ability to a new level.
Mandarin Express Basic Level B
This is the last audio course in the series. It features a small size of new vocabularies and reduced English explanations. With ample exercises, this course will consolidate students’ learning and prepare them for their future studies.
Chinese Video Lessons on Reading and Writing
Chinese Reading and Writing 1
This video course is for beginner students who have zero training in Chinese characters. From strokes and stroke orders, this course teaches them 70 Chinese characters, and 158 words and combinations.
Chinese Reading and Writing 2
This is the second video course in the series. Building up from the 70 characters taught previously, this course introduces 50 new Chinese characters, 166 words and combinations, and 10 grammar points.
Chinese Reading and Writing 3
This is the third video course in the series. Expanding on the 120 characters taught previously, this course presents 50 new Chinese characters, 179 words and combinations, and 14 grammar points.
Chinese Reading and Writing 4
This is the fourth video course in the series. Adding to the 170 characters taught previously, this course explains 50 new Chinese characters, 221 words and combinations, and 4 grammar points.
Chinese Reading and Writing 5
This is the fifth video course in the series. On top of the 220 characters taught previously, this course illustrates 50 new Chinese characters, 250 words and combinations, and 5 grammar points.
Chinese Reading and Writing 6
This is the last video course in the series. This course will grow students’ knowledge of Chinese to 320 Chinese characters, an astounding amount of 1299 words and combinations, and 34 grammar points!
Guides to Using These Courses to Teach Yourselves Chinese
How to self-study Mandarin with a focus on listening and speaking
This is a guide for beginner students to use four audio courses to self-study Mandarin with a focus on listening and speaking to be able to function well in a Mandarin speaking environment.
How to self-study Chinese characters and go beyond
This is a guide for beginner students to use six animated video courses to self-study Chinese with a focus on reading and writing Chinese texts, and to develop sound reading and writing skills.
Intensive Mandarin Program
An integrated beginner’s Mandarin program for non-Chinese speakers. 50 class hours. This program helps students get started quickly on listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Mandarin Express Intro Level A
A beginner’s Mandarin course for non-Chinese speakers. 30 class hours. Starting from pinyin, this course helps students build up conversational abilities quickly.
Mandarin Express Intro Level B
A higher beginner’s Mandarin course. 32 class hours. Students learn essential words and important structures and improve their conversational abilities.
Mandarin Express Basic Level A
This Mandarin course improves students’ conversational abilities around ten popular topics, and helps them develop overall Chinese comprehension. 32 class hours.
Mandarin Express Basic Level B
This course helps students speak Mandarin with confidence, and improves their language skills with many class activities and sufficient listening exercises. 32 class hours.
Mandarin Express Pre-Intermediate Level A
This high level course improves students' Mandarin proficiency in both spoken and written communications, a huge step towards Chinese proficiency. 80-100 class hours.
Mandarin Express Pre-Intermediate Level B
This is a higher level Mandarin course, addressing more controversial issues. Students’s contribution and ideas are at the heart of class activities. 80-100 class hours.
Mandarin Express Intermediate Level A
An advanced Mandarin course. 120-150 class hours. Students practice reading long Chinese texts, giving mini lectures, and watching authentic Chinese video clips.
Mandarin Express Intermediate Level B
A super advanced Mandarin course. 120-180 class hours. Students study famous Chinese texts ranging from 2100 BCE to 1950s CE, and gain insights into Chinese language and culture.
Chinese Reading and Writing 1
A beginner’s Chinese writing course for non-Chinese speakers. 15 class hours. This course teaches how to read and write Chinese texts with 70 characters.
Chinese Reading and Writing 2
The second Chinese writing course, 20 class hours, teaches 50 new characters and how to read and write Chinese texts with a total of 120 characters.
Chinese Reading and Writing 3
The third Chinese writing course. 20-30 class hours. Students learn 50 new characters and practice reading and writing longer Chinese texts with 170 characters.
Chinese Reading and Writing 4
The fourth Chinese writing course. Students learn 50 new characters and further their reading and writing abilities with interesting stories written with 220 characters.
Chinese Reading and Writing 5
The fifth Chinese writing course. Students learn 50 new characters and practice reading and writing long and engaging stories written with 270 Chinese characters.
Chinese Reading and Writing 6
The final Chinese writing course in the series. Students learn 50 new characters and get sufficient training with more diverse Chinese texts written with 320 characters.
Survival Chinese Course
Get some insightful cultural orientation and be equipped with essential phrases with our short-term survival Chinese course. 2.5 class hours.
WeChat Social Media Chinese Course
By using articles published in WeChat, this Chinese course offers great opportunities for high level students to learn Chinese and to understand China. 18 class hours per module.
Finance Chinese Course
This Chinese course helps financial experts improve their Chinese proficiency and maximise their career opportunities. 18 class hours per module.
Teacher April Zhang and Her Students
