Global Village School

Global Village School is helping me so much to learn Chinese when I came to China I didn't know something but every teacher cared so much about the students and they are so kind and so funny even they do events having kind and funny teachers feels so good and they teach me so much I have to thanks they so much I'm so happy to be on there I want to more students come here because everyone gets well everyone is so helpful and learning here is funny everyone should come and this school does event for who don't come to this school to I think everyone has to try here

I am a PhD student at Tsinghua University, I am taking oral language courses at Global Village School, I am from Pakistan, I have been living in Beijing for 5 years, this school is very close to every university, and it is also very close to the subway station.

Speaking of Ms. Liu, who taught me Chinese, she was a good conversationalist. We became friends very quickly. We even went to bars and restaurants together on some weekends. Our Chinese class is always full of laughter because I am a joker myself, we also learned a lot of local words and popular words on the Internet, which makes me feel that every class is very rewarding. Although I know there are many activities in this school, such as making dumplings and cutting paper, I like studying here very much.

At first, I didn't know where the Global Village School was, but a friend told me he studied here, near Peking University or something. Still, I don't have much time to take classes during the day, so I chose online, my level is probably elementary I think, and I want to improve my spoken level, I feel that the class here is very pragmatic, and my teacher, Miss Wang, She knows my native language (Japanese), so she can always find my mistakes in learning, but she doesn't speak Japanese to much in class, to make me more focused on Chinese, you know, the feeling that she is guiding your learning process. All in all, it was awesome.

Sometimes I take part in some school activities and make a lot of friends. I highly recommend you to study here if you want to lay a good foundation for your Chinese.

I had an intensive language program at the Global Village School for 4 weeks to improve my Chinese. Although my language skills was difficult to grade as an heritage student (speaking and listening advanced, reading and writing low to intermediate), the staff was very helpful to find classes that suit me best. All the teachers (several small groups, 1 to 1) were excellent. Due to the small size of the groups (3-6 people) the lessons were very interactive. I asked them a lot of questions and they were very comitted to answer all of them. I met a lot of good people (also good for sozializing) and had a good time. As they offer online courses, you could also continue classes when you‘re back at home or travelling to other places. At least, I intend to do that.

Learning at this school has been fun and I am making fast progress. Teachers are very professional and the school is very organized. The school is flexible and they can personalize the content and the logistics to suit my needs. This is great as I am more motivated to learn because the content is relevant and meaningful to what I want to learn and the school is flexible if I need a small change such as when I have a business trip and I have to adjust the class times due to travel. I highly recommend it!