Our Chinese Intermediate 3 course is designed for students who has knowledge of 800 or more words, who ideally has put in effort to learn all of the Hanzi prescribed in all of our previous courses (400 Hanzi in total), therefore, who can read 200+ Hanzi without Pinyin.

In this course, students will start to read small texts without Pinyin. No new Hanzi will be introduced, instead, consolidating and reading practise will be in focus. For conversational practise, we will move away from text reading to real life stories. Each lesson, we will practise story telling with an interesting subject. Students will watch a story told by a native speaker and follow the example to tell their own stories.

Key grammar points covered in this course include review of verb complement of result, and direction; introduction of complement of possibility; rhetorical questions; flexible use of interrogative pronouns etc.

If you have learnt all of these, you can consider taking the next course – Intermediate 4.

Story Topics

我最不喜欢的餐厅

我喜欢的工作

说说我的客厅

我最喜欢的运动员

现在的我和两年前的我

我最自豪的遇见是

说说我的老同事

如果我不需要工作

我学会了做饭

比一比两个城市

Our Chinese Intermediate 3 course is designed for students who has knowledge of 800 or more words, who ideally has put in effort to learn all of the Hanzi prescribed in all of our previous courses (400 Hanzi in total), therefore, who can read 200+ Hanzi without Pinyin.

In this course, students will start to read small texts without Pinyin. No new Hanzi will be introduced, instead, consolidating and reading practise will be in focus. For conversational practise, we will move away from text reading to real life stories. Each lesson, we will practise story telling with an interesting subject. Students will watch a story told by a native speaker and follow the example to tell their own stories.

Key grammar points covered in this course include review of verb complement of result, and direction; introduction of complement of possibility; rhetorical questions; flexible use of interrogative pronouns etc.

If you have learnt all of these, you can consider taking the next course – Upper- Intermediate.

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.

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.

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