When it comes to learning Mandarin, how do you know where to start? Shasha has developed standardized proficiency levels for you to measure previous ability and to chart new progress.
Shasha offers a comprehensive and flexible selection of Chinese Learning, over 6 types of Chinese Courses at 10 different proficiency levels, which covering beginning to advanced skills, to accommodate the diverse goals of the students.

Study Flow Chart:

Beginner Level

Level One: Knowledge of Chinese is sufficient to communicate in a very limited way, with the simplest oral and listening tasks and situations.

Level Two: At the beginner level, you have a basic command of Chinese needed in a limited range of simple, routine and familiar tasks and situations.

Level Three: You can handle most uncomplicated communicative tasks and routine social and work situations. They can follow the general meaning of a conversation about familiar subjects.

Intermediate Level

Level Four: At the intermediate level, you are able to refashion and combine learned material to meet your immediate communication and learning needs. You can comprehend information on familiar topics in contextualized settings and produce sustained conversation with users on an expanding variety of general topics.

Level Five: You can, to an extend, initiate, sustain and conclude most routine communicative tasks for personal and work needs.

Level Six: At the upper intermediate level, you have assimilated the essentials of Chinese. You can communicate competently and comfortably in many professional and personal contexts, and can find different ways of formulating what you want to express.

Advanced Level

Level Seven: You begin to create with Chinese in more complex, cognitively demanding situations and in conversations, and can deal comfortably with most subjects over the telephone.

Level Eight: At the advanced level, you communicate effectively and appropriately even in demanding oral tasks and situations, like conducting a meeting. You can participate easily in social and professional conversations, and can deal comfortably with most subjects over the telephone.

Professional Level

Level Night: You can communicate effectively with various audiences on a wide range of familiar and new topics to meet most personal, academic or professional demands, including many which presume experience in public speaking and critical listening.

Level Ten: At the professional level, you have full command of Chinese. You can understand and use virtually all linguistic structures as well as a range of vocabulary terms as broad and deep as that of most educated native speakers. Communication is fluent, appropriate and well organized. You can develop ideas in speech clearly and coherently.