Best Chinese Lessons Houston Near Me

4worldlovers: The Institute of Chinese Culture (ICC) was incorporated in Texas in 1970 as a non-profit educational institution. Our mission is to enhance the appreciation of the Chinese language and culture through our Chinese-language school and a variety of community activities throughout the year. Check our social media sites for updates on activities if you want to get involved!

The Institute of Chinese Culture (ICC) is Houston’s first Chinese language school. We primarily offer Chinese classes in either traditional (with Zhuyin) or simplified (with Pinyin) formats. The curriculum covers ages from preschool (three and a half years old) through 12th grade. All courses are designed to teach students listening, speaking, reading, and writing comprehension skills. The 6th through 12th-grade curriculum is further enhanced with a culture-class program to supplement lessons with Chinese cultural activities.

Additional classes, including mathematics, art, English writing, piano, and business entrepreneurship taught through Junior Achievement, are also available. These classes are available to assist students with regular school work, introduce them to Chinese culture and fine arts, and provide leadership skills training. Classes are offered in the fall and spring semesters during the school year and take place in the afternoon. For adults, we also offer courses such as Chinese, French, Tai-Chi, and art.

Starting from summer 2019, we have established the ICC preschool program (http://iccschooltx.org/) which provides an immersion language learning environment for toddlers (2-3years old), preschool (4 years old) and kindergarten (5 years old) students.

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Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, French, German, Italian, English (ESL), Arabic (MSA) & American Sign Language

Early childhood is the best time to learn another language, and your child can benefit from becoming bilingual at an early age through our language immersion camps.


With more than two decades of language teaching experience under our belt, we are masters at teaching languages to children in fun and innovative ways.

We bring the world to your child with our fun, engaging and innovative immersion camps! Both in-person and virtual options. Multiple schedules and locations. Payment plans are available.


We bring the world to your child with our fun, engaging and innovative classes for children and adults.


Our renowned programs incorporate fun and engaging hands-on activities, music, play, and much more! The focus of our programs is to help children develop conversational skills. Children will play their way to becoming fluent in the target language through vocabulary acquisition, understanding sentence structures, and getting to use the language they are learning in a meaningful way.

We are providing in-person classes at schools and other locations in the Houston area, as well as virtual classes, in which we bring our fun and engaging programs to your home.

Our mission is to provide foreign language acquisition programs for children in an authentic, fun and nurturing environment that focuses on fluency development and fosters friendship and curiosity for other cultures.

We have been providing Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, French, English (ESL) and American Sign Language acquisition programs in the Houston area for over 10 years. Our company was founded 21 years ago and our focus is exclusively to teach foreign languages to children in fun and authentic ways through research-based immersion methodologies.

We are passionate about world languages and multiculturalism, and teaching them to children in engaging and fun ways.

We provide innovative and interactive Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, French, English (ESL) & American Sign Language acquisition programs for children in the Houston area and surrounding cities.

Give your child the gift of another language and culture with our language immersion classes at schools and preschools and our immersion summer camps. Our programs are play-based and interactive, and are taught by dedicated and enthusiastic native-speaking language educators with extensive training and experience in language teaching methodologies.

We teach language by teaching students other disciplines and topics, using language as a tool for learning, not the end of learning itself. This helps students use language to develop critical thinking and understand how they can use the language beyond the classroom to achieve fluency and meaningful communication, with an ability to interact with others in the target language with cultural competence and understanding.

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Whether you are a beginner or an advanced learner, our online courses are tailored to your every need and requirement.


Our face-to-face language classes are not just for new customers! If you are already enrolled in an online course with us and would like to meet your tutor face-to-face for your lessons, that’s possible. Switch to face-to-face and continue your course in the comfort of your home or office. Rest assured that the quality of the lessons will be exactly the same: entertaining learning materials, personalized syllabus, and an experienced tutor with all the benefits of face-to-face interaction!

Already know some of the language you want to learn? Our skilled trainers can help you improve, whatever your experience. But to get the course materials and exercises just right, we need to know your current ability. Take our FREE online Language Level Test to instantly learn your present proficiency and let us know your results, so we can design the perfect course where you learn from the very first lesson.