San Pandas Academy

🇨🇳 Chinese

With over a billion speakers worldwide, Mandarin Chinese is one of the most widely spoken languages, making it a valuable asset to learn. Our skills-based series builds essential language skills supported by a variety of tools and practice opportunities. Featuring a rich selection of engaging content, it sparks curiosity, deepens students’ understanding of the cultures where Mandarin Chinese is spoken and celebrated, and lays a foundation for further study. Our Chinese programs will develop learners’ capacity to travel and work in Chinese-speaking countries and to fully participate in the social life and business opportunities available in such countries. It will develop confidence and ability to operate across cultures, and the capacity to make oneself understood as much as the ability to understand contacts, workmates and business partners. Successful completion of this program will prepare learners for further specialisation in the Chinese language and culture to undergraduate degree level. If you really want to learn to speak, read and write standard Mandarin at a high level of proficiency, this course is for you. Learners will be taught in Chinese and assessed for spoken, reading, writing and listening skills in Chinese.

Chinese

Chinese at a glance

FIve reasons to learn Chinese
Language on the Map: Chinese
The Soul of the Script: Chinese History & Culture

7 levels, climbed one step at a time.

Each stage layers on what came before — culture first, then the spoken fundamentals, then mastery. You sit a 6-hour revision & exam prep block at the end of every level, so you always know what you've got.

1
Introduction
Culture & History
Getting started
30 hours
+ Exam
2
A1
Beginner
Basic words and phrases
100 hours
+ Exam
3
A2
Elementary
Simple conversations
200 hours
+ Exam
4
B1
Intermediate
Everyday communication
400 hours
+ Exam
5
B2
Upper Intermediate
Fluent in most situations
750 hours
+ Exam
6
C1
Advanced
Clear and natural expression
1000 hours
+ Exam
7
C2
Mastery
Near-native fluency
1200 hours
+ Exam = 6-hour revision & exam preparation block included after each level.

Three milestones to a full Chinese certificate.

The seven stages roll up into three certification tiers — Foundation, Core Mastery, and Full Certification. Pass the exam at the end of each tier and you walk away with a recognised Chinese credential, not just a badge.

🌱 Foundation STAGES 1–2
📚 Core Mastery STAGES 3–5
🎓 Full Certification STAGES 6–7
Enroll Culture intro · Beginner exam Beginner Cert
Intermediate Cert
Intermediate Cert Capstone project · Oral defense Advanced Cert

Chinese Courses

All current courses offered in Chinese.

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Courses for Chinese are coming soon.