Location
  • China
    • Shanghai
Length
2 weeks
Language
Chinese

Program Details

Immersion Level
Intensive Standard
Class Size
Private Lessons Small Class (1-7) Medium Class (8-15)
Housing
Apartment Host Family Hotel

Pricing

Starting Price
1230
Price Details
This is the price for 2 weeks of our Intensive 20 course.
What's Included
Some Activities Classes Wifi
What's Not Included
Accommodation Airfare Airport Transfers Travel Insurance Visa
Apr 21, 2022
Aug 31, 2023
28 travelers are looking at this program

About Program

Intensive Program: With 6 lessons a day you will feel immersed in Chinese language and culture. Listening, speaking, reading and writing, and will all be taught in a balanced way. It aims at acquiring the highest level of Conversational or Business Chinese. The focus of the lessons will be on daily life or business situations and this, combined with the use of games and pair/group work, will give an optimal learning environment and a full Chinese experience.

Part-time Program: The part-time courses are the perfect solution for those people that have a busy agenda. Part-time 6 is one of the top choices of people that work during the day or that prefer to study Chinese in a less intensive way. With part-time 6 you also have the possibility to choose to have class on weekdays or weekends.

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Program Highlights

  • Full immersion in Chinese language and culture.
  • Full time teachers native to China and bilingual.
  • Slow Motion Technique to teach you Chinese with just one rule.
  • 2 in 1 curriculum to teach you Conversational Chinese and to prepare you to pass the HSK exam.
  • 2 plus 1 to teach you Business Chinese and to prepare you to pass BCT exam.

Program Reviews

4.93 Rating
based on 196 reviews
  • 5 rating 93.37%
  • 4 rating 6.63%
  • 3 rating 0%
  • 2 rating 0%
  • 1 rating 0%
  • Instruction 4.95
  • Support 4.95
  • Fun 4.9
  • Housing 4.75
  • Value 4.65
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Sidharth
5/5
Yes, I recommend this program

Excellent 1:1 Mandarin tutor for child

Excellent home tutoring for my child. Very professional, with good teaching skills. My son's Mandarin improved greatly after 30 lessons and he is still learning. Thank you to Silk Mandarin school for a good experience. Recommend them for 1:1 tutoring. Also recommend them for teaching kids under 10 years old, who are not native Mandarin speakers. Teacher Sarah was always on time and very flexible in her schedule. It was possible to schedule classes with less than one day notice which was very helpful.

8 people found this review helpful.
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Isabel
5/5
Yes, I recommend this program

Chinese Learning at Silk Mandarin

Before starting to learn chinese with Silk Mandarin, I struggled a lot with the sequence. They helped me understand better with the Slow Motion Technique and learnt more than 600 characters, can't believe how I improved my current reading, speaking and understanding skills.
The activities they create and the flash cards they use, have helped me a lot in a fun way to understand a completely different and new language for me.
Silk Mandarin has been a fun, wide and strict school that has helped me improve my chinese in such a fast pace.

32 people found this review helpful.
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Isabel
5/5
Yes, I recommend this program

Silk Mandarin Best Chinese School

Silk Mandarin is very helpful when learning chinese, the content is wide and the teaching tools are diverse. Teachers make several activities in order to learn having fun and with interesting topics, the exercises are also acumulative from past levels learnings so you can keep adding value to new knowledge. I have seen the return of my investment in very short time, of course it takes the student commitment as well but without the structure, teachers and learning tools from Silk Mandarin it wouldn't have been possible to achieve it so wide and fast.

Pros
  • Improve your chinese level very fast
Cons
  • A lot of homework
33 people found this review helpful.
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Cal
5/5
Yes, I recommend this program

My Time as a SilkMandarin Student

I joined Silk Mandarin after a friend recommended them and I've throughly enjoyed my learning with them. I have a very supportive teacher who is flexible to my learning needs and is quick to adjust and adapt any learning materials to create what truly feels like a personalised learning experience. Silk is unlike a lot of other Chinese language schools where you tend to get the reading from a script approach, instead, I was able to clearly outline my goals as a language learner and my teacher Catherine was able to adjust all lesson plans to meet them. I could happily say that I left every lesson with SilkMandarin feeling like I had learned something new which I could comfortably apply in daily use. I look forward to my future as a student at SilkMandarin!

Pros
  • Flexible
  • Approachable
  • Supportive
Cons
  • Feels Expensive - worth it though!
39 people found this review helpful.
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Amy
5/5
Yes, I recommend this program

A great learning experience!

We have loved our last three years learning at Silk Mandarin. Everyone is very friendly and our teacher, Catherine, is amazing! We are working full time as well as learning, so we appreciate the ability to go at our own pace. We have learned a great deal and are able to apply it to our daily lives very quickly. We began learning as a family with our two teenagers and we all enjoyed it immensely. For the last 2.5 years, my husband and I have attended 2-3 times a week and are pleased that we have been able to do it at such a great place. Their teaching technique helps us review (although we definitely could study harder at home).

Pros
  • Flexibility
  • Friendliness
  • Learning engagement
Cons
  • N/A
41 people found this review helpful.
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Remo
5/5
Yes, I recommend this program

Good experience

I am studying with Silk for one year now. I am happy and satisfied with the learning experience. The teachers have a professional background and adapt the learning techniques according to the strength of the student. The teachers have a modern teaching style with a lot of interaction to increase the learning results. I have a 1:1 class, but there are different classes available.
Silk is also organizing activities and events. This is always fun and a good way to get in contact with new people.
I will continue to study with Silk.

Pros
  • Modern teaching style
  • Personal adjusted learning plan
  • Additional activities and events
37 people found this review helpful.
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Andriy
5/5
Yes, I recommend this program

Training is good, not boring, with listening, reading, writing, speaking parts

I've completed HSK3 class.
Of course it will not give 100% understanding of all required words & grammar for freely communicate, but its like one of steps , which need to do to the success of mastering language.

This training is not an easy walk, as other trainings, it requires to work by learning new words, expressions, grammar, do writing, reading, listening exercises. Compared to other trainings, which I've completed before, this one has balance between all these language part without focus only on one part (e.g. many books / trainings only give expressions and new words without any note about grammar rules).

48 people found this review helpful.
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Finnbarre
5/5
Yes, I recommend this program

Great Teachers!

Before starting my studies with "Silk Mandarin" I was studying independently, and I found that I wasn't able to understand many of the intricacies of the language, as well as finding it difficult to self-motivate my studies.

Since studying with Silk Mandarin, I have managed to study a great deal quicker (I covered HSK4 and 5 in just over 6 months. My teacher (Grace) was always very kind, and supportive, and took the time to understand my learning style, and how to best support me.

As well as this SilkMandarin helped me to understand the culture of China better, along with learning the language, and they have many interesting events they offer, which helps to settle into Shanghai as a foreigner.

Great service!

47 people found this review helpful.

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