Cynthia Espinal

Once again Mandarin Centers has partnered with the Language Center of Loyola University of Andalusia (Spain) to add specific Mandarin Chinese courses to its extensive language training offerings. Loyola University, always committed to dialogue and different cultures, has always aspired to be recognized for its academic and research excellence, to create knowledge about the problems … Read more

The Colegio Domínico Chino and Mandarin Centers Institute have recently sealed an alliance to work together towards the common goal of democratizing the teaching of Mandarin Chinese in the Dominican Republic. The institutional act that gave way to the symbolic signing of the agreement was held on March 10 at the facilities of the educational … Read more

Mandarin Centers Institute and the Universidad Estatal a Distancia de Costa Rica (UNED) have just formalized a collaboration agreement through which both institutions commit to disseminate and promote the teaching of Mandarin Chinese among UNED students. The Universidad Estatal a Distancia is a public institution of higher education founded in 1977, under the government of … Read more

The approach to foreign language teaching and learning has varied over time. Initially, it was conceived as a mostly mechanical and repetitive process that centralized pedagogical actions around the teacher. However, language teaching involves a more dynamic transformation, in which not only linguistic, but also social, cultural, personal and even technological factors converge and have … Read more

Millions of people around the world study Mandarin Chinese as a foreign language. However, hundreds are diverted from learning it by misconceptions and stereotypes. In this article, we explain why some common myths about learning Mandarin Chinese, which is not much more difficult than any other language, should be forgotten. Myth 1: You can achieve … Read more

When learning Chinese, we all worry about memorizing the characters of the language and wonder how we will be able to remember all the Chinese characters or hanzi that we are taught in class. Most of us have realized the importance of using Chinese characters from day one, there are no Chinese books, no posters, … Read more