Pre-Advanced Courses
Chinese HSK Level 5 – Society, Culture & Literature in Depth
| COURSE | TIME | DATE | VENUE | PRICE | BOOK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HSK 5 Pre-Advanced T1 Monday #2614 | Mondays 6:30-8:00pm | Sep 21 – Dec 7, 2026 | Aldgate | £380 for 12 weeks | |
| HSK 5 Pre-Advanced T2 Thursday #2613 | Thursdays 6:30-8:00pm | Sep 17 – Dec 3, 2026 | Aldgate | £380 for 12 weeks | |
| HSK 5 Pre-Advanced T3 Wednesday #2617 | Wednesdays 6:30-8:00pm | Sep 23 – Dec 5, 2026 | Aldgate | £380 for 12 weeks |
| COURSE | TIME | DATE | VENUE | PRICE | BOOK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HSK5 Pre-Advanced T6 Intensive Apr #2611 | Saturdays 10:30am-2:30pm | Apr 11 – May 16, 2026 | Aldgate E1 | £380 for 6 weeks | |
| HSK5 Pre-Advanced T1 May Mon #2607 | Mondays 6:30-8:00pm | May 11 – Aug 3, 2026 | Aldgate E1 | £380 for 12 weeks | |
| HSK5 Pre-Advanced T2 Wednesday May #2610 | Wednesdays 6:30-8:00pm | May 20 – Aug 5 2026 | Aldgate E1 | £380 for 12 weeks |
* We are part of Dear Asia London, same team bigger school. You might be re-directed to book courses and events on the Dear Asia website.
ABOUT THE COURSE
Curriculum
The HSK 5 level has 5 courses of 12 lessons each. Our curriculum is set based on Chinese HSK Level 5. The topics covered in this course are normally relevant to current affairs, and traditional Chinese culture, history and literature; these are partly from HSK textbooks, and partly from other media PM academic team curates from newspaper, drama to short videos. These two levels are the training students need to become a 中国通, to maintain and improve your fluency levels.
Training modules
Well done if you if you are looking at courses at these two levels. You must be able to engage in a conversation on various social contexts with a native speaker, and you know what you are looking to improve your Mandarin, to ideally be comfortable with any speaking speed or even regional accents. Reading newspaper and watching Chinese TV programs might still be a challenge to you, but that’s our training goal.
Learning content
For learning material, we use HSK Standard Course Book Level 5 to set the curriculum and for reading, while all other tutorial presentations, learning assessment games, fluency practice worksheet and immersive videos are all originally developed by PM academic team, and are exclusive to our students.
STUDENT SUCCESS
SIMPLE ENTRY TEST
To join this level, you should have / be able to:
Vocabularies:
- 1200 – 2500 words
Language Command:
- Can read Pinyin & 800+ characters
- Can conduct a proper conversation with a native speaker
- Can write about certain topics in small paragraphs
PM’s Fluency Skill Training Target for Level 5:
Fluent speaker skills towards discussing about society, culture and literature in depth
Please click here – you will be directed to our Dear Asia London website for a Chinese placement test.
Translate the following sentences or paragraph into Chinese Pinyin or Characters. You can use dictionary if you don’t know certain words.
Send to us at hello@practicalmandarin.co.uk . We will review your answers and get back to you within 24 hours.
” In the eye of most people, work, family, cars or houses are the essential things in our lives. Even when we think about making some choices or changes to our path in life, we would discover that these things often affect our decisions.
In China, there are more and more people who have achieved to live the comfortably-off lifestyle, with the increase of their buying power, they tend to desire more premium brands and luxury goods which they once can’t afford. According to statistics, China now is listed as the top consumer country for luxury goods, and it accounts for over 20% of the world’s overall consumption. “
