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SN Mandarin Chinese Language School

Why choose SN Mandarin Chinese Language School?

Since 2007, SN Mandarin has offered top-notch Mandarin education in Shanghai and Online.📚 TCSOL recognizes us as a Quality Mandarin School an authorized HSK Test Center and a Strategic Partner of the Online Confucius Institute. Our school has taught more than 20.000 on-site foreign students and even more online! With effective and interactive teaching methods, we make learning Chinese a fun journey and help learners achieve their goals quickly.🚀🎯

At our school, we're more than happy to offer you a variety of courses to suit your needs! You'll find Intensive Chinese courses, Part-time courses, Private classes, HSK preparation courses, and Business Chinese courses. We even run Summer camps! And don't worry about the paperwork - we've got your back with visa assistance too.🌟

Reviews

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Rubina
4/5
Yes, I recommend this program

North South Mandarin School

I have had an exceptional experience at this North South Mandarin language school. The quality of teaching is outstanding, and I’ve made significant progress in my studies. A special thank you to Lisa and Frank for their incredible support and dedication.

Lisa has been incredibly helpful throughout my learning journey. She is always patient, approachable, and quick to offer assistance whenever needed. Her guidance has made a huge difference.

Frank, the director, brings a wealth of knowledge and professionalism to the school. His leadership is evident in the overall structure and quality of the courses. Frank is always available to offer advice or answer questions, and his commitment to creating a positive learning environment is truly appreciated.

Overall, I highly recommend this school to anyone looking to learn Chinese. With such a dedicated team like Lisa and Frank and all the teachers you are in excellent hands.

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T.
4/5
Yes, I recommend this program

Simply great!

I have studied at SN Mandarin for 3.5 months, and I’m very satisfied. The teachers are very kind and helpful. The school has a welcoming atmosphere, and is very centrally located. When I wanted to make changes regarding my lesson schedule, the school was very helpful and understanding. All desired changes were implemented, and I felt like the school gave their everything to give me the best time. I felt welcome from the start! The accommodation that the school arranged for me was very good as well, although it was quite expensive. I can recommend SN Mandarin to anyone!

Pros
  • Kind teachers
  • Conveniently located school
  • Helpful staff
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Jolana
5/5
Yes, I recommend this program

My progress with SN Mandarin

I made immense progress in my 9mo with this school. I really liked my teacher Adam's easy and concise explanations, the tidbits of Chinese history and culture, the stories behind the 汉字 etc. Also, my class was online but the set-up was easy, minor problems were quickly resolved by the headmaster and the atmosphere in class was nice!
The materials were provided to us via online-class, email and post (books). SN hires qualified teachers and takes their reputation seriously. I would recommend them and would like to take classes with Adam again in the future!

What was your funniest moment?
I really enjoyed my teacher's explanations for the characters. Like when Adam explained 黑 as in black, like black ink 墨. And 黑 looks like an octopus who produces black ink. Made it very easy to remember.
Pros
  • Qualified, competent teacher
  • Extensive course and material provided
  • Easy to follow and understand
Cons
  • New app at first - ClassIn but it was fine
  • Online-classes but atmosphere was great
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Lachlan
5/5
Yes, I recommend this program

Excellent 1-on-1 Chinese training

This company really offers great 1 on 1 Chinese training. I was with them for a short 4 months course where I was going from HSK 3 to HSK 4 and it helped me significantly with getting pass that barrier. I now can confidently speak Chinese and only occassionally need the dictionary. They really do well on encouraging you to talk freely and improve your grammar vocabulary enough to do so. Anyone going to Shanghai, I highly recommend their 1-on-1 course for 15 or more hours per week as you would be able to get the most value out of your course this way.

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Simby
5/5
Yes, I recommend this program

Experienced Teacher

My Teacher is nice and jolly, usually I feel bored learning but thanks to him learning was enjoyable.
He also good at handling a slow learner person like me.
Also the best part is the class schedule is flexible and depends on your availability. They also support students individual capability to pay - for me they arranged flexible payments that I can afford monthly. Thanks SN Mandarin. They have high excellent standards in teaching.
I am happy to learn Chinese in your school and will continue to learn to improve my level.

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Staff Interviews

These are in-depth Q&A sessions with program leaders.

Michael Wang

Partner and Coordinator of West East Internship Bridge, nearly seven years of work experience in multi-cultural communication, four years of work experience in teaching Chinese as a foreign language, founder of online learning Mandarin, wealth of multi-cultural experience and communication skills. Michael studied at the University of Hertfordshire and Malvern House London College of ABE Business Administration course.
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What position do you hold at under SN Mandarin? What has been your career path so far?

I am West East Internship (WEIB) Program Coordinator and Partner at SN Mandarin, respond in coordinating with interns and job sponsors and assisting program director. Before joining SN Mandarin to start the WEIB program, I was with an online Mandarin Teaching Organization as the founder. As a partner with a more reputable school program, I take more responsibility, from managing website design, making brochure, answering enquiries, interviewing with applicants to matching best positions from our data base.

It is much busier, but I really like it, because it is exactly my career vision, to be an international culture communication worker. It is to a great extent, because of my oversee study and work experience in London.

What does the future hold for WEIB? Any exciting new programs to share?

Talking about the future is my favorite topic. People say future is in China. I have no doubt about it. China hold the biggest population/marketing, and people work hard, same as me. In WEIB we have the best international team, led by Jon B. Anderson who has nearly 20 years of on-the-round experience in Asia, an MBA from Pepperdine University. In addition to his expansive career as an international senior business leader and consultant, and he has also taught at the University level in both Shanghai and Chicago.

Our company motto is :” WEIB - Your Reliable Global Internship Partner”. Apparently we want to be the best one in Asia.

What about the future of the industry? How do you think study abroad and international education will change over the next 10 years?

Well I think people are no doubt now it is a global world in economy. See what happened to The Russian ruble now, seriously plunge. some people don't really like it, say it is too much everything is about economic, business and money now, Poland tomato price change easily because Russian fruit embargo from EU and competition from China tomato but I think the global economic is more positive and it is the future.

Now back to our subject, I think economic globalization promote the international exchange of education. Westerners more willing to work or study in Asia, not like before just one direction (East to West). So I think study abroad and international education will still maintain upward trend and more balance.

Which study abroad destination is most underrated? Conversely, which is most overrated?

It's hard to say which destination is the best and which is not that good, as different people have different opinions. In my opinion, US and Europe still are a nice destination for eastern people to embraces international multi-culture and diversity. To some extent, China is quite like America, and full of opportunities, challenges and love. So China is also a perfect study abroad destination.