Method

One-to -one communication with your teacher via SKYPE

We have selected and trained native teachers based in our offices in Beijing and Shanghai

Our local teachers not only teach you Chinese, they also teach you about their culture and customs so you can easily deal with Chinese people.

We focus on day-to-day communication as well as basic hand writing and computer use with Chinese characters for emails, chat rooms and even Chinese on-line forums.

Choose a level for more information:

Estimated duration: 24 weeks
Recommendation: 3 hours per week in 1,5 hour sessions

Listening
Identify the communicative intention, capturing the overall meaning and main points from short spoken messages on topics of everyday life.

Speaking
Perform brief understandable, appropriate and consistent intervention on issues of daily life.

Reading Comprehension
Capture the communicative context, the overall meaning and main points of simple texts.

Writing
Write short simple texts, or transcribe the pieces of Chinese speech reflecting the process of written communication relating to specific aspects.

Estimated duration: :24 weeks
Recommendation: 3 hours per week in 1,5 hour sessions

Listening
In situations of communication (conversation, recorded or read text, etc.), with the normal noise or distortions in several records, with possible regional nuances and flow rate: a) capture the information provided either directly or indirectly: thoughts, opinions, expressions of physical sensations, feelings, experiences of others can make inferences on the data implied by intonation or implied, b) maintain discussions, debates, expositions on topics of informative character, distinguishing the different approaches c) Understand talks of films or plays on familiar themes or cultural contexts.

Speaking
Participate fully in a conversation, expressing ideas and opinions. Provide general and detailed information, adapting to different situations of communication. Expose a subject in an organized and coherent way. Argue their own points of view and refute the opponents. Summarize a text and convey ideas and opinions of others. Narrate and describe with clarity, coherence, cohesion, fluidity and sufficient in accordance with the types of discourse that takes place. Scarce morph syntactic errors, not repetitive lexicon, normal speed, with good pronunciation.

Reading Comprehension
Recognize the communicative intention, the main and secondary ideas, specific data, contrast of views, different nuances, and implicit elements (allusions, irony, social and accessible references, etc.) in any text. Capture structure and formal interrelationship and meaning of the different elements of a text, understand the precise components and connectors reference. Understand contemporary literary texts, discursive structures and language accessible to a normal reader. Be able to demonstrate that the text has been understood relocating / redesigning in Spanish texts.

Writing
Exhibit a topic, describe in detail, summarize, comment, argue, forward outside and synthesize ideas, and so on. Transcribe / reshape short Chinese texts: brief articles from newspapers, excerpts from literary (narrative, drama, essays, etc.)… In these texts it is required to speak with richest references, consistency, adequacy and register, using a complex syntax and a comprehensive glossary. Demonstrate the assimilation of grammatical and lexical content. Dominate the structures of language, knowing distinguish regional colloquial variants, etc.

Estimated duration, based on your personal goals

Goal	Minimum Level	Estimated duration
Traveling independently through China	SURVIVAL 2	24 weeks
Doing business in China	ADVANCED 2	84 weeks
Applying for a science degree in Chinese Colleges	INTERMEDIATE 2	48 weeks
Applying for an Arts degree in Chinese Colleges	SUPERIOR 1	108 weeks
Finding a job in China	HSK	144 weeks

Minimum: 1,5 h. / week
Recommended: 2h/week in 1 hour sessions.

KIDS

10 Weeks

KIDS

15 Weeks

KIDS

20 Weeks

Certified Diploma

At the end of your training program, you will receive our Certified Diploma in Chinese