Free charitable Mandarin Chinese Courses from August 2025
Good news!
Free Charitable Mandarin Chinese Course from August 2025
Like every year, our school will open a free Chinese course taught online on August 24th 2025. This course has a total of twelve weeks of classes. The class is scheduled for Sunday at 3:30pm – 4:30pm.
This course is divided into two time periods, as shown below:
24/08/25 to 28/09/25 for the first 6 weeks
and
09/11/25 to 14/12/25 for the final 6 weeks
If you or your friends want to learn Chinese, this is a good opportunity. The course is taught by Teacher David Su.
Attention: Please be aware that two Chinese textbooks are to be purchased, with a total cost of £52.50 (excluding postage costs)
Elementary introductory Course – New to mandarin or those who know less than 100 Chinese characters
TESTEMONIAL:
Zoom In TDR Chinese Course What do you do if you have too busy a life and just a few weeks to learn the basics of the Chinese language? That’s a question that I have asked myself over the last few years. As I work a lot with Chinese colleagues, I always feel so embarrassed not to be able to say something in Mandarin. I spent a while checking available courses in different countries that I could take for a fortnight in the summer. I came across Meridian Chinese Studies at random and was quickly seduced by how the methods that were used to teach Chinese were described on their website. When the course started, my Chinese was nearly non-existent. After a week, I was already able to say many things, to read short texts and to write a few sentences. Incredible! The approach is excellent! Very intensive but worth it! My teacher, David Su, has a long experience in teaching Chinese and he knows what works. He also knows how to adapt his teaching to different students and different levels. The book TDR Zoom for Beginners is well planned and so much better than the hundreds of textbooks that I have bought in the past. Its progression and coherence are clear and well thought of. Though I used to dislike drills I found the ones included in the books to be very useful. I recommend this course without any hesitation. In two weeks I have gained a strong basis that will allow me to continue to study Chinese on my own during my busy days.
Fred Dervin, Professor, PhD, FT, PGCE, FRSA Department Teacher Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland
Registration deadline: 22nd August, 2025
Registration: mecsmeridianchinese@gmail.com
