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Curricula Overview

Our classes are individually tailored to each student, and builds on a set of core curricula. The curriculum most suitable for each student is determined based on a combination of the student's ability and interest. Students are free to decide which parts of the curriculum they want to emphasize. For example, a student may wish to focus more on spoken Chinese, and less on written Chinese. As the curriculum becomes more advanced, students will have more room to tailor the curriculum to their particular interests.

Language Courses
iC01:
Survival Chinese
Highly trained teachers will lead you through practical and interactive lessons that will help you easily to survive living in China using essentially conversational Chinese. It covers a wide range of essential topics like, Introduce yourself in social or business settings, Take a taxi, Make a visit, Talk about money, numbers and dates, Go shopping and bargain,To order food and beverage,Asking and telling time, Make and answer telephone calls, Communicate in travel related situations, Express basic opinions, likes and dislikes, Book tickets and hotel rooms.
iC02:
General Chinese
Beginner Chinese: This curriculum covers a wide range of topics that form the foundation for learning Chinese. It includes learning pinyin (a way to represent Chinese characters and express the sounds in the Chinese language using the alphabet), basic grammar, common words and phrases used in everyday conversation, and the Chinese writing system (including stroke order and radicals). We place a large emphasis on developing solid skills in auditory comprehension and oral expression. The student will have extensive dialogue practice and conversations, will read simple stories and essays, as well as be able to write simple paragraphs.

Intermediate Chinese: Students who can understand basic spoken and written Chinese and can express themselves in everyday situations without many problems are considered to be intermediate level. The intermediate Chinese curriculum focuses on expanding the student's vocabulary, and refining a student's pronunciation and auditory skills. The student will also develop reading skills in the form of more involved stories and news articles, and writing skills in the form of short essays.

Advanced Modern Chinese: To be considered advanced, a student should be able to read and understand Chinese newspaper articles with little difficulty. In this curriculum, students will gain exposure to different styles of modern Chinese, and will undertake an analysis of stylistic techniques and syntactic structure, composition, and translation.
iC03:
Basic Business Chinese
We believe that doing business successfully in China requires cultural understanding of the country, its people, their habits and ways of working. And that understanding goes through learning the language. Our business course will help you find real business situations, dialogues that will prepare you for your career in China.
iC04:
HSK
The course is exclusively designed to help students achieve higher scores on HSK through intensive practice .Our experienced native-speaking teachers will give you exam taking skills and strategies as well as practices of grammar, vocabulary, reading and listening comprehension to mast the knowledge in short time, help you meet requirement of different levels.
iC05:
Mandarin for Cantonese Speakers (普通话纠音?
Exclusively designed for Cantonese speakers, who want to advance to higher levels of proficiency and become native-like. You will practice the most-commonly used phrases and sentences in everyday life,and the professional terms in your work with a qualified native-speaking teacher, meanwhile , get constructive feedback and instant correction of your pronunciation
iC06:
Kids' program
In order to improve young kids communication ability with Chinese, Ispeak arranged small group class(3-6) to your lovely children. Our course focus on game of speaking and listening, field work activities and culture traveling. This kinds real life learning style will inspire their interest in learning and let kids enjoy in china, give them more chance to make Chinese friends.
Professional Chinese
iC07:
Professional Chinese
This curriculum is designed for students who have the need or desired to learn Chinese, especial in finance, law,businese,real estate, medicine and etc. It covers the newest information of recent China, such as the latest policies, documents, the reports about the finance and economics, the media expresses the internet download information and etc. The students can learn more new words that can not be approached on the text books or the tool books or even the dictionary.
Culture Classes
iC12
Calligraphy
iC13
iC14
Chinese Medicine
iC15
Chinese Cuisine
iC16
Paper Cutting
iC17
Coloring Eggs
iC18
Tea Ceremony
iC19
Chinese Knot Craft
iC20
Chinese Chess
field Work

We are a pioneer of novel and effective methods for teaching Chinese. Our students augment classroom work with "field" work, using their newly learned Chinese to order Chinese food at a local restaurant or navigate the public transportation. What they've learned in the classroom will be applied and enforced in safe, non-threatening, and real world environments.