When You Speak Mandarin, People Listen
Communicate in Mandarin effortless. Whether it’s socialising, requesting information, presenting an argument, 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.
Mandarin audio lessons help beginner students start speaking Mandarin from day one with a focus on pronunciations and listening skills.
Chinese video lessons help beginner students achieve sound Chinese reading and writing skills with 320 Chinese characters.
There is also a series of video lessons that teach must known classical Chinese that is selected from 4000 plus years of rich Chinese literary history.
Private lessons and group classes are available for all Chinese courses.
Mandarin Audio Lessons for Speaking and Listening
Mandarin Express Intro Level A
This audio course 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
Building up from the previous one, this audio 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
This audio course focuses on ten useful, important and relevant topics, and with sufficient listening exercises, brings students’ conversational ability to a new level.
Mandarin Express Basic Level B
This audio course greatly reduces English explanations, consolidates students’ learnings, improves their overall comprehension, and prepare them for the next stage.
Chinese Video Lessons for Reading and Writing
Chinese Reading and Writing 1
This first video course teaches beginner students strokes and stroke orders, 70 characters, and how to read and write sentences and conversations.
Chinese Reading and Writing 2
This second video course introduces 50 new Chinese characters, and how to use them in reading and writing interesting conversations and short stories.
Chinese Reading and Writing 3
This third video course presents 50 new Chinese characters, and further develops students’ ability in reading and writing paragraphs and narratives.
Chinese Reading and Writing 4
This fourth video course teaches 50 new Chinese characters and enables students to read and write longer and more sophisticated Chinese texts.
Chinese Reading and Writing 5
This fifth video course presents 50 new Chinese characters and a good increase of words for students to read and write long and enjoyable stories.
Chinese Reading and Writing 6
This sixth video course adds another 50 new Chinese characters to students’ knowledge and opens up the readability of a wide range of Chinese texts.
How 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.
Learn Some Cool Classical Chinese
Bits & Pieces of Classical Chinese (零星文言文) is a video series teaching Classical Chinese.
In each episode, April introduces one or two sentences selected from the rich 4000 years literary history of the Chinese language, and gradually helps students understand some Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Sunzi and more in their original texts.
These mini video lessons help students acquire some necessary cultural literacy of Chinese philosophy, poetry and well known writings that have shaped the course of Chinese history.
Mandarin Express Intro Level A
A beginner’s Mandarin course for non-Chinese speakers. Starting from pinyin, students build up conversational abilities quickly.
Mandarin Express Intro Level B
A higher beginner’s Mandarin course. Students learn essential words and structures and practice speaking on more topics.
Mandarin Express Basic Level A
Students improve their conversational abilities and begin developing overall Chinese comprehension through short stories.
Mandarin Express Basic Level B
Students train listening skills with near native speed, speak Mandarin with confidence, and reach a milestone in their Chinese study.
Mandarin Express Pre-Intermediate Level A
Students rapidly expand their vocabulary and develop Chinese language proficiency in both spoken and written communications.
Mandarin Express Pre-Intermediate Level B
Students engage in in-depth discussions around many social issues. Their contribution and ideas are at the heart of this course.
Mandarin Express Intermediate Level A
Students read analytical Chinese articles, practice giving presentations, and conduct researches in areas they are interested in.
Mandarin Express Intermediate Level B
Students study famous Chinese texts ranging from 2100 BCE to 1950s CE, including must read Classical Chinese and modern texts.
Intensive Mandarin Program
An integrated beginner’s Mandarin program. This program helps students get started quickly on listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Chinese Reading and Writing 1
A beginner’s Chinese writing course. Students learn strokes, stroke orders, 70 Chinese characters and read short conversations.
Chinese Reading and Writing 2
Students learn 50 new characters and practice reading and writing Chinese texts written with a total of 120 characters.
Chinese Reading and Writing 3
Students learn 50 new characters and practice reading and writing longer Chinese texts written with 170 characters.
Chinese Reading and Writing 4
Students learn 50 new characters and further their reading and writing abilities with interesting stories written with 220 characters.
Chinese Reading and Writing 5
Students learn 50 new characters and practice reading and writing long and engaging stories written with 270 Chinese characters.
Chinese Reading and Writing 6
Students learn 50 new characters and practice reading and writing 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.
WeChat Social Media Chinese Course
Students read articles published in WeChat public accounts and gain information about China’s current political and social atmosphere.
Finance Chinese Course
Students read articles published in different financial publications, improve Chinese language proficiency and maximise career opportunities.
Teacher April Zhang and Her Students
