XMandarin Chinese Language School

Nice experience at XMandarin

I spent four weeks studying Chinese at XMandarin in Qingdao. The school is well located, making it easy to explore the city, and the overall atmosphere is friendly and welcoming. I attended a group class three times a week, and I was very satisfied with it. The class was small, allowing everyone to participate actively, and the teacher was excellent—professional, well prepared, and motivating. Unfortunately, my experience with the one-to-one lessons (two hours per day) was much less positive. The teacher initially assigned to me did not meet my expectations and, in my opinion, lacked an effective teaching methodology. I raised my concerns with the school almost immediately and asked to be assigned a different teacher. What disappointed me most was that my request was not taken seriously at first. It was only after I insisted a second time that the school finally agreed to change my teacher, and the replacement did not arrive until the beginning of the third week. The new teacher was excellent, knowledgeable, and exactly what I had expected from the start. Since I had enrolled for only four weeks, I feel that nearly half of my individual course was wasted. When you travel abroad specifically to study a language, every day counts, and I believe the school should respond much more quickly when a student expresses legitimate concerns about the quality of individual instruction.