Programs

We offer online Mandarin Chinese classes for those who wish to learn virtually most effectively. After you have purchased a class package, we’ll contact you shortly and discuss what time suits you best.

We will be more than happy to share our expertise in teaching Chinese with you. Come and schedule your free meeting to discuss your needs and experience a trial class.

Everything is transparent with us. We don’t charge any “material fees.” We will tell you what Chinese textbooks to purchase. Classes for some youth learners offer materials free of charge. 

Some learners build spoken skills from scratch, and some already speak Chinese at home and want to learn reading and writing. Come in and tell us your needs, and we'll tailor the class to suit you best.

Most of our instructors have doctoral degrees in Chinese language pedagogy and won awards in various contexts. We specialize in teaching Chinese as a foreign, second, or heritage language. 

We provide a comfortable and safe space for you to practice and reach for a higher level. Your needs and opinions will be patiently listened to and reasonably accommodated.

This is an introductory course in modern Chinese (Mandarin). 

Designed for English-speaking learners, the focus of this course is on communicating in Chinese in practical, everyday situations. 

The proficiency goal is Novice-High on the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Chinese Proficiency Guidelines. 

This track helps you learn to speak and understand Chinese as efficiently as possible through pedagogically-designed video, audio, and Hanyu Pinyin (the official Chinese romanization system). 

The lessons introduce the highest-frequency communicative events and their associated grammatical patterns, vocabulary, and the sociolinguistic and cultural information.

We provide a revolutionary new method designed to have you quickly reading and writing simple, connected Chinese sentences. 

You will be systematically introduced to the highest-frequency characters, words in context in sentences and reading passages as well as in realia such as street signs, notes, and name cards. Basic graded readers and smartphone applications.

By completing this level you will be able to conduct simple, practical conversations with Chinese speakers on a variety of everyday topics. 

The proficiency goal is Intermediate-High on the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Chinese Proficiency Guidelines. 

The last few lessons are on the cusp of the ACTFL Advanced. 

The lessons introduce most of the remaining high-frequency grammatical patterns and vocabulary of spoken Chinese that weren't introduced in the basic level course, and the sociolinguistic and cultural information needed for you to use these linguistic components appropriately.

You will be able to read simple, connected texts printed in simplified or traditional Chinese characters and recognize about 600 high-frequency characters and common words written with them. Continuing graded readers with engaging storylines and Chinese smartphone applications.

You will raise your level of sophistication in interacting with native Chinese. The dialogues presented form the basis for improvisation for related contexts, equipping students to respond appropriately in new situations. Carefully chosen readings include a variety of viewpoints on current issues such as education, environment, business, and technology in the rapidly changing China.

By reading a 33-chapter novel and/or watching its 33-episode TV adaptation airing in China, you will be able to tell stories both orally and in writing in a way that typical native speakers of Chinese will understand and appreciate. You will accumulate a series of stories that are at the core of the Chinese culture and practice how to relate the stories to the communication with native speakers of Chinese.