The Mandarin Immersion Program (MIP) is based on the need to acquire practical Mandarin communication skills in real life and work.

Researchers have noted that language learners upon leaving traditional courses still have difficulty with their real life communication, noting the wide gap between the complexity of the communication reality they encountered and the simple structures they learned in their courses. To avoid the problems of having learned a lot of language structures and grammar but not being able to communicate in real life, our Mandarin Immersion Program involves learner participation in natural, complex, real world communication and focuses heavily on managing daily communications in real life and work. Immersion allows you to learn in weeks what would normally take a year or more.

Our Mandarin Immersion Program is designed to allow you the opportunity to participate in an authentic and guided instructional learning experience. Given that knowledge and application are two different levels of learning, this program allows you to utilize and practice your knowledge about Mandarin in an applied context. The Immersion program will allow you to practice and explore your Mandarin communication skills as well as integrate and internalize knowledge of the Chinese language.