MANDARIN TUITION FREE!

The Meridian Chinese Studies always has a wide range of classes from beginners to high advance, so, you can definitely choose and join the level, which suits you at any time during the academic term. The tuition fee depends on the portion of the class you've taken.

16 hours free tuition for term 1 of beginners

Meet the tutors - Our courses are led by Meridian’s founder David Su Liqun and taught by a senior teacher (for a group of 8-12 students) so all students benefit from lots of one-to-one attention.

What students have said about these free tuition classes...

• Getting from total beginner to conversational in several weeks is tough, but this course gets close.
• The Zoom In course enabled me to learn much faster than I expected and to be comfortable with words and phrases very quickly
• TDR makes grammatical rules much simpler than you would expect, it makes Chinese word order seem easy to grasp.
• It’s a lot easier than you'd think to learn the Chinese characters and it's really exciting to be able to read Chinese sentences after only a couple of weeks of learning.
• My Chinese friends have told me that I've learned a lot very quickly and my pronunciation is good.
• Great course; the best thing was to have almost one-to-one lessons. The teachers are very enthusiastic and really want us to learn.
• We received lots of feedback and were given specific ways to improve after making our mistakes.
• I’ve gone from having no clue, to speaking and making full sentences as well as comprehending them in just a few weeks. Really impressive and enjoyable.

A good news for you, that a semi-charitable class for beginners will start soon in 2012

The Meridian Chinese Studies now is offering to everybody for a special two-term Mandarin package, the duration in total is 28 hours.

Tuition Free for Term 1 (The first 8week-16hour studies); Term 2 (6week-12hour studies)

The whole package charges £199.00 on Mondays to Fridays, £249 on Saturdays

The dates of the package:

Term 1 & term 2 (14 weeks course):

Class (A): on Wednesay's evenings from 04/01

Class time: 6:45pm to 8:45pm

Class (B): on Monday's evenings from 23/01 to 02/04 for 11 weeks; After holiday from 23/04 to 14/05 (no 07/05) for 3 weeks, in total 14 weeks.

class: from 6:45pm-8:45pm

Class (C): on Saturday's afternoons from 11/02/12 for 8 weeks; After holiday from 21/04 to 26/05 for 6 weeks, in total 14 weeks.

Class time: 11:00am-1.00pm

Class (D): on Tuesday's evenings from 28/02 

Class time 6:45pm to 8:45pm

Class (E): on Friday's evenings from 02/03 

Class time: 6:45pm to 8:45pm

Class (F): on Thursday's evenings from 08/03

Class time: 6:45pm to 8:45pm

Class venue: 19-21 Ridgmount Street London WC1E 7AH

Class size:  12 students per class maximum.
Teachers: Highly qualified and native Mandarin speakers.

This special Mandarin course is for: 1) complete beginners; 2) some people who are not beginners but want to improve their pronunciations and tones of Mandarin.( An interview is required )

After the package has completed, most students are able to achieve an amazing result that they can master in the comprehensive way of reading, writing, listening, speaking and translating for 236 daily life sentences in Chinese characters. Even more, MECS will help them to take the HSK test in London in May 2012. It means that after Term 1&2 in total 14 weeks 28 hours, students' level can reach to the China National Official Certificate of HSK Level 1 Test, which equals to Common European Framework courses for Foreign Language A1.

Sample sentences or dialogues from Term 1 :

04， I drink Chinese tea. 
      我喝中国茶。 
12， You, he, I, all study Chinese. None of us study 
      English. 
      我，你，他，我们都学中文，我们都不学 英文。 
17， Do all students in Shanghai study English? 
      上海学生都学英文吗？ 
32， Does your dad speak English? 
      你爸爸说英文吗？ 
35， Who is he? 
      他是谁？ 
36， Where is the University of London? 
      伦敦大学在哪儿？ 
37， What does your mum drink? 
      你妈妈喝什么？ 
41， Dialogue: 
      Q: Are all university students in the library? 
      大学生都在图书馆吗？ 
      A: Not all of them. 
         不都在。 
46， There is a Chinese library in our university. Does your 
   university have one too? 
      我们大学有中文图书馆，你们大学也有吗？ 
53， Because her dad and mum are both in Shanghai, she’s 
      studying English in Shanghai. 
      因为她爸爸妈妈都在上海，所以她在上海学英文。 
63， Who will Mr. Wang meet at a quarter past 12 today? 
      今天中午十二点一刻王先生见谁？ 
67， Let me treat you to English food tomorrow night. 
      我明天晚上请你吃英国饭吧。 
73， I will be in London for three days, Monday, Tuesday and 
      Wednesday. 
      我星期一、星期二、星期三，三天都在伦敦。 
80， I was in the University of London on the 9th of September, 
      1999. 
      我一九九九年九月九号在伦敦大学。 
94， Dialogue: 
        Q： Excuse me, Miss, can I have your surname, 
      please? 
      请问小姐，您贵姓？ 
      A： My surname is Ying, my given name is Ming Ming, I am called 
      Ying Ming Ming. 
      我姓英，叫明明，我叫英明明。 
98， Dialogue: 
      Q：Excuse me, Mr. Wang, are we having dinner tomorrow 
      evening? 
      请问王先生，我们是不是明天晚上吃饭？ 
      A： No, we are having dinner this evening. 
      不是，我们是今天晚上吃饭。 
      Q： Ah, this evening! Where are we dining this evening and 
      what are we having? 
      啊，今天晚上！今天晚上在哪儿吃饭，吃什么饭？ 
      A： In a Chinese restaurant, Chinese food. 
      在中国饭馆，吃中国饭。 
      Q：Ok, thank you! 
      好，谢谢您！ 
111， I was in the library this morning, met Miss Wang at noon 
      and studied Chinese in the afternoon. 
      今天我早上在图书馆，中午见王小姐，下午学中文。 
120， I will be in Beijing on the 6th, in London on the 26th, let’s 
      meet in London. 
      我六号在北京，二十六号在伦敦，我们在伦敦见吧。