Learn Chinese Online
Learn Chinese online with native Chinese teachers living in Mainland China.
Conversational in 6 months 🐱🏍
Speak Mandarin at home?
We specialise with helping students bring their
reading and writing standard up to the level of their speaking and listening.
Speak a Chinese dialect at home?
We'll seek to pair you up with
a teacher that can use your dialect to help you learn faster.
No Chinese background?
Game on! Let's help you become conversational in
no time.
Meet Masae
Based in Hangzhou, China
I graduated with a Bachelors in Chinese Education and am native Cantonese
and Mandarin.
Masae one of those rare teachers that genuinely loves teaching.
Learn With Masae
Meet Lis
Based in Shanghai, China
I graduated from Hubei Normal University with a Chinese literature and
language major.
Lis is an experienced teacher with lots of energy and humour.
Learn With Lis
Meet Gemini
Based in Shanghai, China
Born in
China's Jiangxi
province, I have a Masters degree in Chinese International Education.
I love teaching Chinese and have been doing it for 4 years now.
Gemini specialises in helping students with HSK exams.
We Offer Amazing Tailored Classes
A Private Tutor
Tutors vary in quality
and price.
Goal: HSK 3 (conversational)
Time invested: 12 months+
Money invested: $2000 - $4000
Return on investment: Medium (varies)
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Culturestride 1:1 Course
Highly qualified and native with the
added convenience of remote lessons.
Goal: HSK 3 (conversational)
Time invested: 6 months
Money invested: $1950
Return on investment: High
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University Course/Group Class
Group classes focus more
on reading and writing because speaking
opportunity is shared amongst everyone.
Goal: HSK 3 (conversational)
Time invested: 24 months+
Money invested: $2500 - $4000
Return on investment: Low
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Fixed Price No Matter How Fast You Learn
We help you achieve international HSK proficiency standards for a fixed price (packages priced in USD), no matter if you take 10 or 50 lessons. 🙀
Hourly
$25
Register for your no-commitment trial lesson
Students
Jackson Hill (Polygon Landscape Architect, 23 years old, RMIT)
I first started learning Mandarin
with the intention of communicating better with local Chinese people. I
wanted to understand their perspective and culture better and to be able
to travel more easily. My secondary goal was to be able to communicate
in a Chinese business, but I knew this was a dream goal.
I've studied
with a Culturestride tutor for 5 months now, and have already seen the
results, especially while travelling. My phone broke while travelling
alone in Western China, but I had already learnt enough mandarin to not
only communicate my issue to some locals, but to then have dinner with
them and talk about what we were studying and our thoughts on parts of
China.
This is emblematic of my experience learning at Culturestride: you quickly
learn the essentials of Chinese to a high level while also having the
confidence to use it. More than this, cultural nuances and ideas that
are not seen in textbooks are explained that make your Chinese not only
more practical, but more relatable and interesting when you talk with
people. I feel like this difference comes from learning from natives,
which Culturestride is exclusively composed of.
With these teachers, I feel like
my lofty goal of business Chinese is not a dream either, but may even be
possible quite soon.
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about Jackson
Cathy Su (Macquarie Bank Associate, 22 years old, UNSW)
Being an ABC (Australian Born Chinese),
I’ve always been urged by
my Chinese friends or relatives to improve my Mandarin. The decision to learn /
re-learn Mandarin from Culturestride was the best decision I ever made!
Returning home after a 1 month trip around China, I felt motivated more than
ever to improve my Mandarin as I had stopped learning Chinese at a very young
age and very much lost touch with my roots. Masae is a skilful, competent
teacher and accelerated my Mandarin in 1 month!
Every lesson that I have with
Masae is enjoyable yet challenging, as she knows my weak points very well,
especially with forming sentences and fixing grammatical errors, and tailors
every lesson to face my weak points head on. If you’re a complete beginner or
looking to improve your Mandarin, Culturestride is the place to start!
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about Cathy
Clemens Lindner (David Chipperfield Architects, 25 years old, Technische Universität München)
I'm a German student and I've found
learning with Culturestride (Masae) has been an incredible experience and has
brought up my Chinese proficiency up super quickly. I started from no chinese
exposure a month and a half ago and I'm already communicating at a HSK 2 level.
The teachers here are amazing, super friendly and really know how to teach. It's
also so interesting to be able to pick up the cultural element from a native
tutor that I think is quite unique. I'd recommend this to anyone considering
learning Chinese and is serious about it.
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about Clemens
Andrew Snow (InsideSherpa Software Engineer, 22 years old, UNSW)
I've always aspired to learn another
language but couldn't decide which. After travelling to China without any
Mandarin, I decided to embark on the journey of learning the language. Chinese
is known as one of the world's hardest languages to learn but after just two
months with Culturestride, everything seems learn-able.
Although I am still new into my
Chinese learning journey, I have already been able to pick up key characters and
use a few Chinese super apps. The lessons are super practical and relatable,
which I think helps a lot with learning. It's not like copying and writing the
same character 10 times, but instead how to use words, characters and phrases in
a real-life situation. I recommend Culturestride to anyone who wants to learn a new
language, and be able to actually use that language in real life, in a short
amount of time.
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about Andrew
Luke Hoad (Citibank, 23 years old, UNSW)
Wanting to learn Mandarin with no prior
knowledge, I didn't know where to begin. After starting lessons with Masae, one
of the tutors at Culturestride, she has helped me get through HSK1 in just 2 months. She
splits lessons up well so I get a good balance between speaking, reading,
writing and revision.
With her in-depth PowerPoints and homework, I've been able
to progress faster and retain my knowledge along the way. On top of that, she's
been really easy to connect with making the whole experience enjoyable too.
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Catherine Hu (Google, 23 years old, UNSW)
Culturestride's private lessons have allowed me to progress my Chinese at a
personalised
pace, as my speaking and writing abilities are very different. Because of that
reason, I've always found group lessons and standardised lesson formats
frustrating to complete. My teacher Lis and I only speak Chinese during our
lessons to learn faster and she uses a range of online tools to help with the
learning process. The online nature means a more flexible style of learning and
I am very happy with my progress so far! I would definitely recommend
Culturestride for
learners of all levels to improve their Chinese.
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about Catherine
Sarah Wu (Deloitte Digital, 22 years old, UNSW)
I genuinely enjoy learning Chinese with the Culturestride team - as an ABC
(Australian
born Chinese), I felt as though there was an expectation that I could speak
Mandarin whenever I was in China, especially when I spent a week in Taiwan over
the summer and really struggled with speaking Chinese and helping my non-Chinese
friends order food and shop.
Culturestride and my teacher Lis have been amazing - they've adapted the pace
(and the
pricing model) to suit my needs since I already have some knowledge around the
basics and a Cantonese background with a good balance between learning, revising
and practicing my conversation skills. Lis has also helped me connect Cantonese
with Mandarin which is super helpful for realising the similarities and
differences between the two. They make payments simple (no international
transfer fees!) and have been flexible with my changing schedule. Would 100%
recommend to anyone who has been thinking about learning Chinese!
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about Sarah