Our Chinese Pre-Advanced HSK5 Courses are designed for students who has finished Level 4 learning or are able to do the below:

• have independent speaker fluency
• ideally has knowledge of 1500 or more vocabularies.
• Ideally can read 800-1200 Hanzi without Pinyin

There are 6 courses in this level. The topics covered in this course are relevant to current affairs, and traditional Chinese culture, history, and literature. Here are the headline topics:

• 了解生活
• 谈古说今
• 请听故事
• 走近科学
• 放眼世界
• 修养身心
• 交流文化
• 体会教育
• 感受人生
• 关注经济
• 观察社会
• 亲近自然

You can join a HSK5 course from any term, as the topics in each unit are not connected. If you are unsure which term to join, please make sure you book a trial lesson before signing up.

The learning results of our courses would be for students to achieve further speaking fluency discussing social issues or current affairs in depth, to understand videos and films in Chinese, to navigate a Chinese website, and to read authentic Chinese writings.

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

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.