Our Advanced Business course is designed with 6 modules which reflects our students’ learning interest. Each of the modules has 8 topics, where key vocabularies are outlined for study, in the form of news articles or case studies. Most of these case studies will be from China, for example, you might learn about the Chinese government structure, stories of the business tycoons and their companies in China, booming sector and innovative startups, or the stock market and property market.

For learning material, we curate one article each topic with outlined vocabularies. Additionally, each lesson should include 0.5 hour to 1 hour learning time for current affairs discussion. The source is commonly financial times 中文网。The ability to engage in conversations about current affairs with the right vocabularies is a step up from being comfortably fluent, it’s also a crucial step to achieve working proficiency in Chinese.

To join this level, you should have / be able to:

Vocabularies:

• 2000 Words and more

Language Command:

• Can read Pinyin & 800+ characters
• Can conduct a proper conversation with a native speaker
• Can read and understand some Chinese news
• Can do information research on Chinese content

Our Chinese Advanced HSK7 Expert Courses are designed for students who has finished Level 1-6 learning or are able to do the below:

• have independent speaker fluency
• ideally has knowledge of 2500 or more vocabularies.
• Ideally can read 1500-2000 Hanzi without Pinyin

Topics will include global and everyday life topics, namely, Technology & Society, Introducing Chinese Literature, Global Politics, Pop Culture & Censorship, Economy & Innovation.

The learning results of our courses would be for students to achieve excellent speaking fluency discussing current affairs, social issues and history events in depth and in details, to understand videos and news in Chinese, to achieve further reading skills of authentic Chinese writings, magazines, website and newspaper articles.

Our Chinese Upper-Intermediate 1&2 Course is designed for students who has finished Level 3 learning or are able to do the below:

• can speak Chinese with natural pronunciation
• ideally has knowledge of 800 or more vocabularies.
• Ideally can read 200-400 Hanzi without Pinyin
• can hold a conversation or talk about an event with ease
• have good foundation of all important grammatical structures like verb aspect, verb complements, use of modifiers and adverbs, special sentences like 是…的，把，被, and the colloquial nature of topic comment in Chinese.

This course will focus on vocabulary building on a range of topics that are closed to daily life, at the same time the questions asked are more abstract or detailed, so as to practise speaking with organised thoughts, with specific vocabularies. The 5 headline topics in this course are 爱情，友谊，工作，赚钱，购物。Students will practise their listening skills by listening to native speakers on video answering various related questions in unfiltered language, then students will follow suite to practise answering these questions with their own options and stories.

There are 4 courses at this level, we recommend students to always start from lower level of the courses, or to pick a class where your level is most aligned with the classmates.

Chinese Upper Intermediate 3

 Our Chinese Upper-Intermediate 3 Course is designed for students who has finished Level 3 learning or are able to do the below:

• can speak Chinese with natural pronunciation
• ideally has knowledge of 1000 or more vocabularies.
• Ideally can read 500-700 Hanzi without Pinyin
• can hold a conversation or talk about an event with ease
• have good foundation of all important grammatical structures like verb aspect, verb complements, use of modifiers and adverbs, special sentences like 是…的，把，被, and the colloquial nature of topic comment in Chinese.

This course will focus on vocabulary building on a range of topics that are closed to daily life, at the same time the questions asked are more abstract or detailed, so as to practise speaking with organised thoughts, with specific vocabularies. The 5 headline topics in this course are 阅读，生活中的创意，世界文化，环境保护，教育。Students will practise their listening skills by listening to native speakers on video answering various related questions in unfiltered language, then students will follow suite to practise answering these questions with their own options and stories.

There are 4 courses at this level, we recommend students to always start from lower level of the courses, or to pick a class where your level is most aligned with the classmates.