It takes around five minutes to cycle from GoEast’s campus in Shanghai to LeWagon — but while one school teaches Mandarin and the other teaches code, are they really that close in class material too? Is learning a foreign language similar to learning a coding language? Would a Chinese-speaker code differently than an English-speaker? We […]
We love quotes because they’re nuggets of wisdom, condensed life-lessons into bite-sized sentences. A good quote is memorable and inspirational. So we’ve lined a few up for you, you amazing Chinese-learner. Jiāyóu! Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. – Penelope Lively Learning another language is not only learning different […]
With DuChinese we hosted our teacher Ellie, live from Shanghai on YouTube, answering your questions about learning Chinese. Topics: 2:38 HSK preparation 11:55 Free online resources 14:31 Chinese language in general 24:31 Hanzi 34:55 Pronunciation 42:10 Casual topics HSK preparation How to prepare for a HSK test? Per level, it can be described as: HSK1: […]
GoEast recommends places to eat and spend time in Shanghai by following our community of educators and students.
There are a lot of Chinese proverbs about bamboo, but we haven’t found one yet that describes going on a weekend trip with your language school, so we’ll explain it for you here: with 42 students & Mandarin teachers, we travelled out of Shanghai and into the bamboo forests of Anji, up on hills and […]
This Saturday we celebrated 7 years of GoEast, that means 7 years of remarkable students, inspiring teachers, and making Chinese more accessible to all.
Find out where real people eat, drink, and spend time in Shanghai by following our community of GoEast teachers and students.
Many university students around the world spend some time experiencing life in another country, whether for a semester abroad or a gap year.
After a long week at work, how do you relax and enjoy the weekend? In China, people “play” with friends.
As one of the largest countries in the world, China has many different climates and huge temperature differences between the Northern and Southern cities.