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| Course Formats | Our Curricula | Course Material | Course Placement | Course Schedule |
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iSpeak classes are offered in two formats: private tutoring and group classes. Private tutoring is more flexible than group classes in location, scheduling, and class level and content. Private tutoring sessions can take place at a student's home or office, iSpeak's classrooms, or another comfortable setting such as a Starbucks. The student is free to reschedule sessions if a conflict arises with the regularly scheduled time. The level and content of the class is also entirely tailored to the student's ability and interests. Private tutoring sessions typically match one teacher to a student, although we do tutor multiple students (usually 2 and no more than 3) at the same time. This often happens when close friends of similar skill levels decide among themselves to be tutored together. |
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Group classes are regularly scheduled classes that take place at iSpeak's classrooms. Group classes are small, consisting of 3 to 5 students. Students are placed into the same class based on a combination of skill level, scheduling, and interests. The contents of the group classes are customized. However, due to the heterogeneous nature of these classes, the customization to any one student will be more limited than private tutoring sessions. Currently, group classes are available at the beginner to intermediate levels. New classes start on a rolling basis. Once enough students express interest in a particular class, we will organize a new session. |
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Intensive classes: The courses are made on fixed schedule. They can't be changed for personal reasons after courses start. These courses are totally designed for those who want to improve their Mandarin Chinese in a short time in stable progress. Students have more chance to practice with classmates in class and make new friends as well. |
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Combined classes: Combined course designed for who like to have more than two kinds of course together. For exampale, If you take our group class, You can also take one on one private tutoring to catch up with your classmate if you need. Or In the morning we offer language Chinese , at afternoon you can choose other Chinese course as your like. Such as Chinese culture course, field work, business Chinese etc. |
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Our Curricula |
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Curricula Overview |
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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. |
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Language Courses |
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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 converstional 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. |
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Professional Chinese |
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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. |
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Culture Classes |
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| iC11 |
Chinese Painting |
| iC12 |
Calligraphy |
| iC13 |
Taichi |
| iC14 |
Chinese Medicine |
| iC15 |
Chinese Cuisine |
| iC16 |
Paper Cutting |
| iC17 |
Coloring Eggs |
| iC18 |
Tea Ceremony |
| iC19 |
Chinese Knot Craft |
| iC20 |
Chinese Chess |
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field Work |
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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. |
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Course Materal |
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Unlike many other Chinese schools in Shanghai , we do not sell our own course material to students. We have reviewed many excellent books, and have decided that selecting from this set offers us greater flexibility in choosing the right material to meet a student's needs and interests. |
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Course Placement |
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We take great care in understanding the needs of our students. Each student undergoes a personal interview where we can find out a little more about the student's goals and learning style. If necessary, the student is also given an evaluation exam to determine the appropriate start point. We then pair the student with an appropriate instructor for a trial session. During this free session, the student has the opportunity to evaluate the instructor, and request a new one if the current one is not suitable. |
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