Summer Course

Very educative and self improving expirience I suggest everybody to try it.

I'm Wiede and I have studied Chinese at XMandarin for three months now. Before that I couldn’t barely say anything in Chinese.

Here I enjoy classes a lot. My teacher teaches me super professionally and passionately and class is still chill the same time. Today I can easily read pinyin, many basic characters, shop and ask for directions. I’ve got better at using the right tones, though it can still be struggling sometimes. The class contents are very flexible, for example at the beginning I didn’t want to learn any characters but focus on oral Chinese, which was perfectly fine with the teacher. Also I could tell preferences about my timetable.

I can wholeheartedly recommend XMandarin. Experienced kind teachers, nice classrooms right in downtown Qingdao, free coffee and water. They also helped me find an accommodation and launch a local bank account and phone contract. I was even given the opportunity to try out a group class of my level!! Eventually I stuck to the private class, which was not easy to decide, because I made good friends in the group class, who I often hang out with. The school sometimes invites us to cultural events like learning calligraphy or rock climbing.

Next year I must go back to Europe to finish my business studies. However, after that I want to carry on my language studies at XMandarin to reach at least HSK 4. Are you looking for Chinese schools in China? Don’t search no more, this one's the one :-7

I found two of the teachers I had absolutely first rate. One seemed a little new at the job and not so experienced but she was still very helpful and took a real interest in helping me. One teacher, however, seemed bored and disinterested. She didn't take much interest and couldn't respond well to my questions. I was upset about this class and felt that it wasted my time and money. However, the other three teachers I had were excellent, so overall, I'm very satisfied with the experience. I wish I had more time to attend because I think my language ability improved quite a lot. Text book materials were good. Class rooms and writing boards were good. The school is centrally located, but it happened to be far away from where I was living. So it was important for me to have good classes to justify more than two hours of travel to get there.

As a part of our internship program, we are doing a short program of 4 two hour lessons over 4 weeks. They have been really helpful in going over the basics of the mandarin language. Our teacher is really helpful and is an effective teacher who obviously knows how to effectively teach a class of newcomers to mandarin. The lessons are perfect for complete beginners like ourselves. However, I think that because we have such a short course, I think it would've have been more useful to focus on practical/ daily life essential vocabulary. Such as ordering food and recognizing common characters which are essential to daily life. I think that would allow students on short courses to see real and practical benefits of learning mandarin and give us more chances to use the vocabulary we learn in classes in our day to day lives in China.

I have been attending XMandarin classes with the help of InternChina. We have received 8 hours of classes and so far I really enjoy the quality of teaching. The teacher always corrects you if you do a mistake, answers your questions, and lets everyone practice their pronunciation. However, I wish we could've received more hours and I think if the class would've been split in two smaller classes, that would've been wonderful as we could've got more interaction time.

Also, I think it would help a lot if the first few hours we would be learning basic phrases in Chinese and how to order food, find a toilet, top up your travel card etc. Although I enjoy learning from the basics, I think it would be more useful to teach people basic survival phrases in Chinese.

Overall though, I enjoy the lessons and if I could, I would stay longer. The teachers here are wonderful and provide high quality lessons.

I spent 6 month in this school, the environment is pretty, calm and you feel great. You can meet a lot of foreigners and have fun with the activities the school organize every month.

The staff here is amazing, always here to help you with anything.

The teachers are great, mine was more than a teacher she also became a great friend. I learned a lot about Chinese language and culture here at XMandarin but also a lot about myself.

Going abroad to work or study is an amazing experience and XMandarin can help you to realize that.

I recommend this school to anyone who wants to study Chinese language. Qingdao is a wonderful city, the people here a chill and the city have a lot of places to see. It's way more calm than big cities.
I can't wait to go back there and see all my friends I left at XMandarin.

The Chinese courses were very satisfying : very adapted to your level. The content is also very thorough.

The teachers are enthusiastic and motivated to help you to improve your Chinese during your stay. You can talk with them anytime you want.

I recommend Xmandarin.

I am not a Chinese beginner, I learned Chinese in France and I really wanted to improve my Chinese by coming to China. I started at XMandarin with group class but I was worried the level would be lower than mine. It was not! We all had similar level and similar will to improve. My teacher totally understood our need of learning more daily vocabulary. We learned a lot and could apply it all to our daily life, making us more Chinese!! It really helped me better understand the conversation I was having with locals and exchange more.

After my experience of group class I wanted to continue learning there and took 1-to-1 class. Principle is the same except I have more flexibility about what I want to learn, how, I can ask more questions and I learn even faster!

I already found an apartment by myself so I didn't need their help but I know they can help you with that :D

I had no problem with the visa papers they sent me so it went all well!

I really loved be part of XMandarin. I liked to much the way the teacher make the class dynamic and so easy to understand also I liked how they give us the opportunity to immerse in Chinese Culture with the monthly event that they organize.