Chinese Language Lessons in Tampa FL

Longmen Chinese Language Center, Tampa:
Located in Tampa Bay, Hillsborough County, Florida, Longmen Chinese Language Center is dedicated to providing professional and quality Mandarin Chinese language training to kids, teenagers and adults. Courses for kids include regular Chinese learning (K-3rd Grade & 3rd-8th Grade options), in-home Chinese tutoring, group classes, private Chinese lessons, conversation classes, and more. We offer a great curriculum, patient and professional teachers, and practical & useful Mandarin Chinese lessons and is tailored to you at very affordable prices.

We teach both Traditional and Simplified Chinese. Students may choose to learn either one or both. We suggest students learn to recognize both and learn to write at least one form. Basically the differences are some characters, pronunciation and the terms. (Try to think about the difference between British English and American English.) Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese speakers can communicate with each other with no problems.

Traditional Chinese (Standard Chinese) is the completed form of Chinese characters currently used in Taiwan, Hong Kong and most of the Chinese communities in the U.S.A..

As for Simplified Chinese characters, they are based mostly on popular cursive (caoshu) forms embodying graphic or phonetic simplifications of the "traditional" forms that were standardly used in printed text for over a thousand years. The government of the People's Republic of China has promoted it for use in printing in an attempt to increase literacy. They are officially used in Mainland China, Singapore and Malaysia.

We offer a great curriculum which contains practical & useful Mandarin Chinese lessons and is tailored to you at very affordable prices.

- General Mandarin Chinese classes for kids, teens, adults
- Private Mandarin Chinese lessons for beginner, intermediate, advanced students
- Small group Mandarin Chinese classes
- In-home Chinese tutoring
- Chinese Conversation classes
- Chinese test preparation for AP Chinese, SAT 2 & HSK

Adult Courses:
Courses for adults include Business Chinese, Chinese for Traveling or other interests. We can also assist you with the test preparation for AP Chinese, TOP and HSK.

Is it hard to learn Mandarin?
Although Mandarin is one of the hardest languages in the world, we have effective methods and materials to help students learn this language faster and easier. However, the learning progress varies individually.

Will I learn to handwrite the Chinese characters while taking your class?
We do not require our students to be able to handwrite all of the vocabulary. Our teachers usually ask students to do the writing practice on frequently used characters only. However, the writing assignments may vary by the progress of the class and the teacher's curriculums.

How do you teach students to recognize the Chinese characters?
The teaching method and the material we use is the "spiral approach"; each new character is first introduced and the recycled in classroom activities and subsequent lessons to enhance retention of new vocabulary over time.