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Mandarin Mastery & Idioms

Name: Mandarin Mastery & Idioms
Price: 429 EUR
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.9 (61 reviews)

Polish, proverbs and precision: the Mandarin of negotiation, nuance and cultural reference.

4.9 · 61 learners30 hours of live teachingCertificate included

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Next group starts 11 Jan 2027
Seats left: 3

At a glance

Duration10 weeks
Live lessons20 × 90 min
Group sizeMax 6
Next start11 Jan 2027

Course materials included

Digital workbook, audio library and progress tracker, no hidden fees.

What you'll be able to do

Mandarin Mastery is our highest-level Chinese course, designed for learners who already work in Chinese and want to sound effortless. You refine tones under pressure, decode chengyu (four-character idioms) and rehearse the delicate language of negotiation and disagreement. HSK 6 candidates are welcome.

20 in-person lessons with an HSK examiner
Tone and prosody clinic
Chengyu and cultural reference workshops
Negotiation role-plays
HSK 6 task practice

✓Argue, persuade and concede in Chinese

✓Use idioms and proverbs appropriately

✓Read formal documents and commentary

✓Present complex ideas with precision

✓Understand fast native-speed speech

✓Sit HSK 6 with confidence

Curriculum

Week by week, module by module

20 live lessons across 4 modules, and every module ends with a speaking task.

1Tone sandhi review
2Neutral tone precision
3Prosody for emphasis
4Fast speech drill

Weekly schedule

Two live sessions per week plus an optional conversation lab. Classes run in Central European Time (CET); recordings stay available for 14 days.

Cohort 11 Jan 2027

20 lessons over 10 weeks · starts 2027-01-11

Weekly schedule for Mandarin Mastery & Idioms
Day	Time (CET)	Type	Where
Tuesday	18:30 – 20:00	Live class	Campus · Room Sakura
Thursday	18:30 – 20:00	Live class	Campus · Room Sakura
Saturday	14:30 – 16:00	Conversation lab	Campus · Café corner (bi-weekly)
Anytime	15 min	Self-paced	Character review & idiom cards

Pricing

Choose how you want to learn

Same curriculum, three ways to experience it. Materials, certificate and conversation lab included in every tier.

Group course

Up to 6 learners

€429total

€21 per lesson · 20 lessons

Live group lessons (max 8)
Digital course materials
Monthly progress report
Conversation lab access
Certificate of completion

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Semi-private

3 learners

Private tuition

1-to-1

€1115total

€56 per lesson · 20 lessons

Everything in Semi-private, plus:
Fully tailored 1-to-1 plan
Your own schedule and pace
Teacher messaging between lessons
Unlimited rescheduling

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Payment in 3 instalments available · 14-day satisfaction guarantee · Prices include VAT

Your teacher

Yuki Tanaka

East Asian Languages Director

Yuki has taught all three writing systems for fourteen years and wrote our kanji bootcamp. Her secret weapon: teaching you to think in patterns instead of translating word by word.

Experience: 14 years
Lessons taught: 5,100
Education: MA Japanese Pedagogy, Waseda University
Certifications: JLPT Tutor Certified · TOPIK Level 6 · HSK Official Examiner

Meet all teachers

Yuki Tanaka

East Asian Languages Director

4.9

Japanese
Korean
Chinese
English

14 yrsexp.
5,100lessons
3courses

Yuki has taught all three writing systems for fourteen years and wrote our kanji bootcamp. Her secret weapon: teaching you to think in patterns instead of translating word by word.