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.
NEW for 2010-2011:
Our teacher training programme offers a Postgraduate Certificate and Diploma in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages.
SOAS Language Centre is an official HSK test centre in the UK for the HSK Department, National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, the People's Republic of China (Hanban). HSK tests take place twice yearly at SOAS here in central London, with HSK preparation classes.
The Language Centre hosts the London Confucius Institute.
Scroll down for links to our pages of detailed information on our Chinese language courses.
Summer 2010 Intensive Chinese
- Introduction to Chinese Calligraphy
- Survival Chinese
- Colloquial Chinese for Beginners I
- Colloquial Chinese for Beginners II
- Intermediate Chinese
- Advanced Chinese
Diploma Courses
- Diploma / Certificate in Modern Chinese, full time
- Diploma / Certificate in Modern Chinese, part time
Evening Courses
- Beginners Mandarin A: one evening a week for 36 weeks
- Beginners Mandarin B: two evenings a week for 24 weeks
- Beginners Spoken Chinese
- Beginners Reading Chinese
- Beginners Mandarin for Cantonese Speakers
- Lower Intermediate Mandarin A: one evening a week for 36 weeks
- Lower Intermediate Mandarin B: two evenings a week for 24 weeks
- Upper Intermediate Mandarin
- Advanced Mandarin
- Chinese Calligraphy
- Business Chinese
- Mandarin Chinese for Lawyers
- Confucianism and Society Today
- Beginners Cantonese
Saturday Courses
- Beginners Mandarin A - 36-week course
- Lower Intermediate Mandarin
- Upper Intermediate Mandarin
- Advanced Mandarin
- Foundation Certificate in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
- Chinese Corner -- Your Speaking Experience
- Chinese Poetry and its Images
- Chinese Life and Culture
- Modern Chinese Literature
- HSK Preparation
- Advanced Chinese for Business
