Learn Chinese Mandarin - There are Chinese Courses / Classes held in the heart of Melbourne City, Sydney City, and Richmond! Specialising in Optimal Learning Strategies, Red Crane School of Chinese provides a conducive and innovative environment for rapid learning of Chinese Mandarin language, where a modern fusion of Eastern philosophy and Western understanding takes place. The school takes a fresh and modern approach to learning Chinese, Mandarin. The main school located on Collins St, Melbourne, with a branch in Sydney was started by Evelyn Chen with the aim of teaching 'real life' Chinese. With this in mind, she developed a series of textbooks, audio cds, and Chinese courses which not only teach you the basics of the language, but also deals with 'day to day' Chinese,like how to bargain in a Chinese market, saying 'No Msg Please' when ordering food, and the intermediate classes even deal with swear words, so you know what they really are saying in those kungfu movies...

Red Crane now also has free Red Crane PODCASTS which act as supplementary lessons. These lessons are only available to current students.

Red Crane's Clients include staff from Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games, IBM, GE, Lonely Planet, Business Council of Australia, Intrepid Travel, ANZ, Pacific Brands, Le Meridien Hotel, National Bank, Microsoft, Heinz, Sony Ericsson, Musuem Victoria, Deakin University, Parliamentary Library, Cathay Pacific, amongst many others.

Dr Greg Gardiner, Senior Parliamentary Officer, Parliamentary Library, Parliament House

"Having studied a variety of languages, both at University and privately, it has to be said that Red Crane offers one of the most innovative language learning experiences I've had the pleasure to take part in...I can't recommend this course highly enough"