Chinese Language Courses & Activities
SOAS Language Centre in London provides weekday daytime, evening and Saturday language tuition in Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, for mother-tongue and non-mother-tongue speakers. We can also offer courses in a number of other major Chinese dialects.
SOAS Language Centre operates the largest non-degree Chinese language programme in the UK. It runs over 120 scheduled courses a year, including both full time and part time courses. In addition, we offer individual tuition or small group tuition tailor-made according to the needs of the clients, be they from the business community, government departments or other institutions.
Each year there are about 1400 registrations on its various Chinese language courses, and SOAS Language Centre has a team of nearly 30 teachers, all of whom are native speakers of Chinese.
Our teacher training programme offers a Postgraduate Certificate and Diploma in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages.
HSK tests take place twice yearly at SOAS here in central London, managed by our colleagues at SOAS' London Confucius Institute.
Interested in undergraduate and postgraduate study in Chinese? Our colleagues in the Department of the Languages & Cultures of China & Inner Asia can help you with that.
Scroll down for links to our pages of detailed information on our Chinese language courses.
Diploma Courses
- Diploma / Certificate in Modern Chinese, full time
- Diploma / Certificate in Modern Chinese, part time
Weekday Evening Courses and Saturday Daytime Courses
- Beginners Mandarin A: one class session per week
- Beginners Mandarin B: two class sessions per week
- Free Course in Beginner's Chinese
- Beginners Spoken Chinese
- Beginners Reading Chinese
- Beginners Mandarin for Cantonese Speakers
- Lower Intermediate Mandarin A: one class session per week
- Lower Intermediate Mandarin B: two class sessions per week
- Upper Intermediate Mandarin
- Advanced Mandarin
- Business Chinese: Intermediate
- Business Chinese: Advanced
- Chinese for Lawyers
- Confucianism and Society Today
- Chinese Poetry and its Images
- Chinese Life and Culture
- Modern Chinese Literature
