Adults & families · 3–28 days
Custom Travel & Study
Your dates, your route, your Chinese — study-travel itineraries (旅游定制) built around your interests, with lessons that pay off the same afternoon.
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Since 2006 · Beijing · Kunming · Xi’an
Chinese for adults
Whether you have a lunch break, a gap year, or a university plan: small-group and one-to-one courses, serious exam preparation, and study-travel built around real life in China.
- Years teaching Mandarin
- 20+
- Student nationalities
- 40+
- Ages of our students
- 5–77
- Cities: Beijing, Kunming, Xi'an
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Programs · experiences
Study-travel and pathways
Programs that put your Chinese to work: summer sessions, custom study trips, martial arts tours, and the road into a Chinese university.
Ages 10+ · 1–4 weeks
Martial Arts & Culture Study Tour
Mandarin in the morning, kung fu in the afternoon — a study tour (武术文化游学) that trains body and language in the same Beijing week.
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Adults · semester tracks
University Preparation
The full path from your current Chinese to a Chinese university seat — intensive HSK-focused study, application handling, and a pre-arrival foundation month.
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Adults · CSC & university awards
University Scholarships
Chinese Government Scholarships and university awards can cover tuition and living costs — we build applications that win them.
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Courses · instruction
Courses that fit adult life
Start any week, in a small group or one-to-one, on campus or online — spoken Chinese, characters, and exam preparation with a plan behind it.
All ages · group or one-to-one
Spoken Chinese
Fast, practical speaking built on sentence formulas and real Beijing dialogue — order, bargain, and find your way from the first weeks.
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All ages · beginner to advanced
Chinese Characters Fast-Track
Learn characters the way they were built — strokes into radicals, radicals into components — so reading stops being memorization.
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Teens & adults · HSK 1–6
HSK Preparation
Structured preparation for the HSK, level by level — a placement test, a study plan, in-house workbooks, and mock exams under real conditions.
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Teens & adults · all three levels
HSKK Speaking Test Prep
The HSK proves you can read Chinese; the HSKK proves you can speak it. Recorded drills, model answers, and timing practice for all three levels.
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Student voices
From learners who did it
The first time a taxi driver understood my directions without me repeating myself, I actually cried a little. That's Capital Mandarin.
They pushed me across all four skills — speaking, listening, reading, writing — in a way that actually stuck. Challenging in the best sense.
Teacher Xin is good and demanding — and somehow patient at the same time. Exactly the combination I needed.
Good to know
What adult learners ask first
I've heard Chinese takes years — what can I really say after a month?
With about 20–30 hours of the formula method behind you, you can manage real exchanges: greetings, taxis, shopping, ordering. By 60 hours you handle daily communication comfortably. The trick isn't talent — it's a course that spends every hour on the spoken language you need first.
Which HSK level should I aim for?
It depends on the door you're trying to open — many university programs ask for HSK 4, scholarships often ask for more. Your placement test tells us where you are today; from there we map the realistic level for your exam date and build the plan backwards.
How long until I'm ready for a Chinese-taught degree?
Most programs ask for HSK 4 or 5. From zero, plan on one to two semesters of intensive study; from an intermediate level, one semester often does it. Your placement test turns that range into a real timeline against your target intake.
How custom is custom — can we change the sample routes?
Completely. The sample pairings are starting points, not packages: swap cities, stretch or shrink the days, tilt the trip toward food, history, hiking, or art. You react to a draft itinerary and we revise until it's yours.
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Your Chinese is one conversation away
Tell us your goal and your timeline — we'll map the course or program that gets you there.