Mandarin Chinese Language Courses in Beijing, China

The Bridge School, Beijing:
The Bridge School has specialized in teaching Chinese to foreigners for 12 years. It was voted "The Best Chinese Language School" by City Weekend's readers' survey.

Mandarin Chinese Language and Culture Courses, Intensive Mandarin Chinese Classes, Private Tuition, Chinese for Business, Chinese For Children. New classes start every month. Individual classes start anytime.

A. Main ideas of Chinese teaching in The Bridge School:
- Student’s speaking: student's speaking will occupy more than 60% of the time, and the teacher's lectures will occupy less than 40% of the time. Learning to speak is achieved by speaking practice rather than listening and reading. It is not necessary to strictly follow the textbook: the teacher will select the most important expressions from the book and combine them with the student's background, so that the student can learn everyday Chinese quickly.

- Content focus: Every session will not contain too many new points. For the students, from 5-12 within one session is better than giving 40 points along with teacher's explanation without time for training.

Though learning to write and recognize Chinese characters, students will better understand the logic and patterns of spoken Chinese vocabulary . Thus gradually building a solid foundation for further learning. Considering these important auxiliary functions to spoken language learning, we at Bridge school will help our students to recognize and write some simple Characters from the beginning with the basic strokes. In order to overcome the students’ inhibitions to learning Chinese characters and stimulate their interest in them, our teachers will use vivid and creative methods to explain the characters.

Training process:
Teacher's explanation 5%
Teacher's training 90%
Student's demonstration 5%

B. Training: 4 steps at least on each point and have the student use them:
(1) Student's repetition led by the teacher
(2) Questions and answers on the content mentioned in repetitions
(3) Substitution after a small survey of vocabulary
(4) Performance or demonstration of the student's ability