Culture Yard News

Culture Yard is made up of a team of international and ethusiastic staff and teachers!

We are currently looking for new language teachers  to join our cozy team. Check out our careers page for our vacancies!

We are starting February off with two new Chinese courses on February 6th!

One will be a 10-day Intensive Chinese Course which is a perfect introduction to the language. It is designed for those who perhaps do not have long amounts of time in Beijing and need the most effective way to start learning the language. In the course you will learn all the basic essentials to survive on Beijing’s bustling streets in only 10 days.

Our second course starting February 6th  is 0-Level Chinese, a course set up over 80 hours and designed to create a strong basis of the language. Simultaneously learning characters as well as conversational skills, you really get to understand the language and the culture behind it. A great course for those who have just arrived in Beijing and desire to learn the language fully and have to see their skill develop over time.

For more information on the courses and prices click here 

Culture Yard is proud to introduce our new German teacher, Maiken Jaeschke from Munster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Maiken has been teaching German over the past few years and is going to develop a strong German study course over the next few weeks here at Culture Yard.

German will be offered in conversational group classes as well as 1-1 teaching.

For more information on the course, including prices and more information about Maiken click here 

Begin 2012 with a kick start to your Chinese – with Culture Yard’s 10-DAY INTENSIVE CHINESE COURSE 

When: February 6th – 18th 

For anyone who just arrived to Beijing and is looking for a quick and easy way to start picking up Mandarin – then this course is for you!

Come to Culture Yard for a 10-day intensive Mandarin Chinese course starting February 6th, which will leave you feeling much more confident walking on the busy streets of Beijing.

This intensive course is perfect for anyone wanting a quick but in-depth introduction to the Mandarin language. On the course students learn all the basic essentials to survive on Beijing’s bustling streets. Taught by a dedicated teacher with the goal to send you out after 10-days with the full knowledge of the four tones, pinyin, basic words and expressions that are essential in everyday life situations. This course is the easiest and most effective way to begin speaking one of the most complicated languages in the world. It will give you a very strong base to continue tackling the written and more advanced conversational skills.

Culture Yard’s Chinese Movie Night series introduces important directors and major trends in Chinese cinema of the last three decades, as well as its depiction of different aspects of modern and contemporary life in different parts of the Chinese speaking world. (Chinese with English subtitles)

“中国电影夜”通过观看中国电影为大家从不同层次角度介绍当代中国社会生活（中国大陆，香港及台湾）。每一次的中国电影夜都会有主持人做影片简介，并带领 大家进行自由讨论。（中文对白英文字）

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