Enrich your experience in China by taking Mandarin Language Lessons! You can do a Mandarin Language Course concurrent with your main project and then you can practice your new-found skills on the local people!

We have teamed up with a prestigious language school in Beijing, part of a group who have 25 years experience teaching languages to students around the world. The school is actually located within the Forbidden City - in a building that used to be the Imperial Ancestral Temple, and now functions as a language school and centre for Chinese culture!

During your lessons, you're right on the doorstep of one of the most famous places in China! The area where the school is located is right next to a large park, so you can enjoy long walks or spend time reading quietly in one of the typical Chinese pavilions. Not far from the school is also the most famous shopping area of Beijing known as Wangfujing. You will be right in the centre of the action!

• Qualified teachers whose mother tongue is Mandarin
• Class size between 4 and 8 students
• Communicative teaching methods with which you can learn very easily
• Classes tailored according to the length of your stay with different types of teaching materials
• Learning material
• Our school has 12 classes and all our students are given a book on the first day of classes to use with the course.
• Students can also buy or borrow books as well rent out material from the school library.

We offer Chinese courses for all levels from absolute beginner to advanced. On the first day, you will take a test and will be placed in the level most suitable for you.

The courses are held from Monday to Friday: educational material on loan will be given during class. There are no classes during holidays.

The Teachers
The teachers are all native speakers, highly qualified and have an academic education. After the lessons, they are available to give advice and assistance on any problems with the language and to answer questions about local cultural and sporting events. They may spend their free time with our guests and, of course, for students taking a business language course, they will provide special materials for class.

Teaching Method
The teaching method is based on the "principle of conversation" because the study of language should be aimed mainly at putting into practice the grammatical and lexical aspects of the language:

• Grammar- vocabulary - exercises - activities
• Reading - understanding texts - listening - writing
• Conversation
• Lessons

The class is based essentially on the principle of conversation. This is achieved through intensive training in structured role-play, guided dialogs, audio-listening and reading cultural, social, and political essays and articles related to the host country.

Certificate
At the end of the course each student will receive a certificate stating the number of lessons taken and the language level achieved.