Mandarin For Absolute Beginners: Chinese Made Easy

Mandarin for absolute beginners: Chinese Made Easy! With Chinese New Year fast approaching, how would you like to learn a little Mandarin this spring? Join us on Saturday March 8th for a fun, interactive class for complete beginners, where you’ll learn Mandarin Chinese the easy way - no memorisation required! 

By the end of this 3-hour session, you’ll be able to speak and understand some of the highest-frequency Mandarin words and phrases, and read a simple story in Mandarin. We’ll even try our hand at writing some beautiful Mandarin characters. An excellent place to start for those who are interested in learning this fascinating language; the class assumes no prior knowledge of Mandarin at all.

Liz Syed is a qualified Language Teacher (and also a qualified Speech & Language Therapist) with many years’ experience of teaching languages to people of all ages.  

She is passionate about raising awareness of the benefits of language-learning in terms of brain health, especially regarding its potential to delay the onset of dementia, following a significant amount of recent research by the University of Edinburgh and others. Learning a language is one of the best ways to give your brain an all-round “work-out”, with significant positive long-term effects on brain health. With this in mind, Liz has recently started running language sessions for older people in care homes, including those living with dementia, which she finds extremely rewarding.

Liz  has been giving her own brain a work-out by learning Mandarin Chinese for the past few years, and is excited to help others discover this beautiful language in a stress-free and enjoyable way.

Please contact Liz at liz_syed@yahoo.com if you have any questions about this 3-hour workshop. Please note: this class is designed for those who are complete beginners and have no previous experience in Mandarin.