Chinese Language Courses & Activities

SOAS Language Centre in London provides weekday daytime, evening and Saturday language tuition in Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, for mother-tongue and non-mother-tongue speakers. We can also offer courses in a number of other major Chinese dialects.

SOAS Language Centre operates the largest non-degree Chinese language programme in the UK. It runs over 120 scheduled courses a year, including both full time and part time courses. In addition, we offer individual tuition or small group tuition tailor-made according to the needs of the clients, be they from the business community, government departments or other institutions.

Each year there are about 1400 registrations on its various Chinese language courses, and SOAS Language Centre has a team of nearly 30 teachers, all of whom are native speakers of Chinese.

We run a one year part-time teaching training course (Certificate in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language), the first of its kind in the UK.

SOAS Language Centre is an official HSK test centre in the UK for the HSK Department, National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, the People's Republic of China (Hanban). HSK tests take place twice yearly at SOAS here in central London, with HSK preparation classes.

The Language Centre hosts the London Confucius Institute.