Programs

General Courses
Elementary 1~3
These lessons include Phonetics and tones, 1000 vocabulary, 200 grammar points and sentence structures, more than 3000 common sentences and conversation. By completing all three levels, students are able to make a self -introduction, visit a friend, ask directions, make a phone call, make an appointment, grocery shopping, seeing doctors, booking tickets, communicating with housekeeper etc.

Intermediate 1~3
After finishing elementary levels, you are able to talk about everyday activities and use basic grammatical constructions. Intermediate levels will enlarge your vocabulary to 2500 and focus on more complicated grammar points and sentence structures. By finishing these courses, students are able to make conversations in different situations and environments.

Advanced 1~2
At this level, you must have a good comprehension of most non-specialist texts and a very good understanding of grammatical construction. The courses focus on communication skills through discussion of current issues in society, for example; the economy, culture, and other facets of China. After finishing these levels, you can understand with ease virtually everything heard or read and can summarize information from different spoken and written source.

HSK preparation
China's Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, known as HSK or the Chinese Proficiency Test, is a standardized test at the state level. It is designed and developed by the HSK Center of Beijing Language and Culture University.  The functions of HSK are to certify that the holder has acquired the requirement to enter a college or university in China as an undergraduate or postgraduate student, and to certify the holder as a basic standard by which the Chinese employers are able to evaluate communication skills of the candidate.

Business Chinese:
These courses are designed for those students who have completed at least one year of Chinese study and have gained a good knowledge of basic grammar as well as around a 1000 words. The emphasis is placed on the usage of business terms in modern Chinese business context as well as on the related social awareness. The content of these courses include company organization, agenda, meeting, personal opinion, project progressing schedule arrangements, attending a banquet, negotiations, etc.

Special Programs:
Chinese Character Course
This course is for those are interested in not only spoken Chinese but also reading and written Chinese. It covers the history, composition skills and system of Chinese character writing. By completing this course, students will be able to recognize and write more than 1000 Chinese characters, which cover 90% of the daily reading materials.

Shanghai Dialect
This course requires students who already have a strong understanding of Chinese language. Consonants, vowels, tones in the Shanghai dialect will be taught. Words, phrases and sentences in common usage in Shanghai is the focus. This course will make the students more adoptable to Shanghai culture and survive in daily life.

Chinese painting
This course is deliberately designed for those who are fond of Chinese traditional art and have interests in study it.
Schedule
Part-time Group Course (One on 3 to 5)