Chinese language courses At GoEast Mandarin we offer our students a great variety of choices, from HSK courses to Spoken and Business Chinese. Each course is thoroughly developed with supplementary PPT’s, flashcards, exercises and grammar examples. Variety of Chinese courses Beginner Chinese Kids Chinese HSK3 course HSK4course Spoken Chinese Business Chinese Advanced Chinese Exam preparation […]
Reddit is such a great place, because besides wasting time at subreddits like r/Aww and r/Wholesomememes, it has extremely useful places, like r/Shanghai for our Shanghai-based Chinese students. And Reddit is a great place for learning Chinese as well. By far the best place for learning Chinese is r/ChineseLanguage (on Wednesday we post our Beyond […]
Chinese isn’t as hard as you think it is, and there are plenty of free resources as well. Scroll down for videos and free lesson materials. For more Chinese language videos, you can always see our YouTube channel, GoEast Mandarin. If you want get free Chinese tips delivered by your email, register here. You can […]
Let us dispel some reasons not to learn Mandarin Chinese language. 1 — Don’t need to learn new stuff Perfectly valid reason! If someone’s life’s good enough, why bother! But, for many Mandarin learners, Mandarin has been incredibly meaningful; not just in that it opens many doors, but also in that it shows them that […]
Sur GoEast Mandarin, la plupart de nos cours de chinois sont dispensés selon le système officiel du mandarin : le HSK (汉语水平考试 Hànyǔ Shuǐpíng Kǎoshì, traduit par le test de compétence en chinois. Pour le hors ligne, nous utilisons souvent les livres HSK, et nos propres cours en ligne sont vaguement basés sur le système HSK, et vous préparent également aux tests HSK. [...]
The Chinese language is the most spoken language in the world, with 1.3 billion native speakers. It’s also one of the six official languages of the United Nations. At GoEast Mandarin, our colleagues also have first-hand experience of speaking Chinese in the Netherlands, Canada, the USA, and Chile. How many languages are spoken in China? […]
When starting to learn Chinese, it’s important to build a foundation of basic vocabulary. Here are some of the most essential Chinese words and phrases to know. The Mandarin Chinese language has over 50,000 characters (although you don’t need to learn that many!) and there are probably over 300,000 Chinese words. But just like characters, […]
YouTube is an amazing place for Mandarin learners, because it’s full of free videos explaining vocabulary or the grammar of Chinese language. If you add the HSK level (E.g. “HSK3 vocabulary“) you’re sure to find a video with a list of Mandarin words you need to rehearse. And you can also search for a specific […]
Mandarin is no longer confined to just China, as it’s increasingly spoken all across the world. In the ‘Chinese is a World Language’ series, GoEast follows some native as well as foreign Mandarin speakers. This time, Jaap Grolleman from the Netherlands, who since 2018 lives in Shanghai. “My hometown Hattem has around 11,000 citizens, with […]
“In June 2010, my mother asked me: “Have you decided yet?” I nodded silently, and showed the form of my College Entrance Examination form, which said ‘Major: Chinese as foreign language education’. I was just 18 that year and decided to be a Mandarin teacher. Learning to teach Chinese The College Entrance Examination, the 高考gāokǎo, […]