Tired of HSK textbooks?
Learn to speak Chinese with lessons built on media 🎬
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Have you spent years with textbooks, but still can't understand or speak to natives?
We've seen way too many students like you. They've spent years with textbooks, even passed HSK 5, but when it comes to having spontaneous conversations with Chinese people... total crickets!
The problem is, textbooks and HSK exams are great for getting a qualification and for memorising technical words, but they just don't train you to understand real-life, unadulterated Chinese speech.
The kind of Chinese you hear in your Didi from the airport or on the streets in Shanghai.
And that sucks! You spend years on Chinese just to pass an exam, but not to do the thing we find most fulfilling, talking to and connecting with Chinese people.
How do we help students overcome their fear of speaking Chinese without textbooks?
Quite simply we swap out the traditional textbook-based approach for a more intuitive method.
We don't force students to do vocabulary tests or to recite outdated dialogues.
Instead, we help them immerse in various types of Chinese media, training them to notice sentence patterns and to develop an intuition for Chinese structures.
Our whole team is privileged to be based in China and have the opportunity to use Chinese in our professional and personal lives, however we recognise that not everyone has the same time or resources to create and follow a media-based programme that works for them.
That's why our students choose to study with Sinosphere. We have the advantage of 20 years of experience and a team of 5 bilingual teachers who can create this exact learning environment for you and all our students across the world.
We deliver a curriculum based entirely on native media, curated and broken down for your exact level. All the speaking habits and niche cultural references that no one bothered to explain to you before!
Our teachers are here to diagnose your weak spots and get you thinking and speaking in Chinese like a native, on topics that are actually interesting to you!
Why media-powered learning works better than textbooks
Develop an intuition for Mandarin
Our media based curriculum is designed to develop your pattern recognition skills in Mandarin, one of the cornerstones of language fluency. It's what helps you learn vocabulary faster, and also retain it for longer
Actually have fun whilst learning
We don't know about you, but we find textbooks dry and boring. Sure, they help you build a necessary foundation, but beyond that textbooks aren't exactly known for evoking students' passion for the language. Media can be adapted to your interests and our team of Laoshi always search for pieces of media that suit your interests.
Native media is the most authentic form of Chinese. It is neither watered down for foreigners' consumption, nor is it outdated like some textbooks. It exposes you to what's current and trending in China NOW. That's what makes it such a powerful tool for learning.
Interact with up-to-date resources from China
Get exposure to accents and dialects
Anyone who's been to China, knows that not everyone speaks with perfect and crystal clear Putonghua.
In fact for a lot of Chinese, Putonghua or Mandarin is not their first language. That's why they speak with an accent and sometimes may incorrectly pronounce their consonants and vowels. At Sinosphere, we help you get exposure to the various accents and slang you hear across Mainland China as well as Taiwan.
The team behind Sinosphere
Our team of teachers have 20 years of collective experience teaching Chinese to foreigners. We have deliberately curated a team of teachers who are ALL fluent speakers of English and Chinese.
They know exactly what it's like to learn a foreign language from scratch and they transfer these same learning methods to you.
XiXi 老师
Karma 老师
青岛 native!
Owns the cutest puppy!
Trained accountant
5 years teaching Chinese
珠海 native!
Gym rat and adventurer
Mandarin and Canto
6 years teaching Chinese
Representing 北京!
Corporate baddie
Worked in USA
4 years teaching Chinese
Kang Kang 老师
Selena 老师
Representing 深圳
Tattoo connoisseur!
Fluent in Chinese memes
5 years teaching Chinese
Who is Sinosphere?
Sinosphere is an online Chinese language school that has broken up with traditional learning methods. We got tired of seeing countless students getting nowhere after years with textbooks, and are now on a mission to shake up the Chinese learning industry with the power of media!
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