History
ExcelMandarin started as a small collective of teachers aiming to connect with more Mandarin learners. The collective was born out of our Founder, Evan Chiles' love of the Chinese language and the story of his path to fluency. After consistently seeing how many English speakers struggle and fail to learn Mandarin, we decided to shift all of our time and energy to developing a more effective means of teaching. We realized that this decades old system has not been working, and we decided to do something about it. We discovered that the main struggle people encounter is Chinese characters, followed by pronunciation. Thus, we set out to research and develop a completely new paradigm for learning Mandarin. We developed a means of teaching that is fun, easy, and very unique. ExcelMandarin's current form is a Mandarin education school providing groundbreaking education, stemming from the 26 years of combined experience of our Mandarin teacher community .
Specialties
Our method is unique, fun, and easy! We are a Mandarin education school and virtual learning community that utilizes a gamified and output-based teaching approach to help adults achieve spoken Mandarin proficiency in less than one year. Our groundbreaking teaching approach makes pronunciation, listening, and spoken Chinese incredibly accessible to English speakers. Aside from our education standards, one of the first things students notice is how light-hearted and enjoyable our classes are. All of our teachers genuinely love what we do; we are obsessed with the beauty and ingenuity of the Chinese language. We are obsessed with helping our students grow and develop and learn. We assure you, you will never meet another group of teachers so passionate and in love with what we do. While we offer a genuinely revolutionary Chinese curriculum and learning system, we teach much more than that. Our classes put a huge emphasis on teaching students fundamental skills for learning languages. You will learn to analyze and understand the logic and culture of Chinese. You will learn how to study and learn effectively, so that you can study less and learn more. We make our students into language learning experts, just like us. Our students advance on average 10x faster than those at traditional schools. We invite you to come and try a free trial class; see for yourself why our students love us, and how they are able to learn so quickly.