Looking for Chinese language courses for foreigners

[Hitoiro]

I am looking for good (efficient!) Chinese language courses for foreigners in Singapore. Being realistic, I understand it's impossible to learn the characters but I would like to gain some speaking skills, tones, just to be able to converse about basic things.
Appreciate your advice.

[Frank Randal]

Have you ever considered to take an online Chinese lessons? Local language school maybe nice, but imagine that 20 or 30 people (perhaps even more) sitting in the same big classroom to learn Chinese together and that you could have very little chances to talk with your teacher. Thus, you can’t make progress as quick as you suppose to.

So I suggest you take an online Chinese lessons to learn Mandarin with native Chinese teachers via Skype. It’s more convenient and flexible. You don’t need to drive or take buses to the school at weekend and it can help you to save a plenty amount of time. The most important is that the online teachers will arrange the lessons based on your own pace, level and specific needs (such as reading,writing or speaking).

Just take a look at this site:
http://www.echineselearning.com

It is a popular online Chinese learning school which providing 24 hours online Chinese courses and free Chinese learning resources. If you really want to learn mandarin in an efficient way, I suggest you think about it.

[erikahk]

I know there are lots of online resources offering Chinese learning.

1. Italki (https://www.italki.com/home)
Connect students with native language teachers
Students can search teachers online and find their rate

2. BBC - Learn Chinese (http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/)
Self study offered by BBC
Lots of cultural information and latest news in Chinese
Good for people interested in current affairs, news and politics

3. Fluent Up (http://www.fluentup.com/)
Connect students with language schools
Students can search language schools online and take live lessons

Hope this information helpful!

[sontnvn]

I have joined Elite. So far so good.

[liu jing lindy]

You should try online as it is quite convenient and cheap. But if you want quality and don't mind putting in effort and time. An face to face learning agency will be better. There are a lot of government grants for language at SSG atm for PRs and SGC, maybe you can go take a look?