I send my 2 boys here since the beginning of this school year and I'm happy to say that their mandarin has improved by leaps and bounds. My oldest son was in a Chinese immersion program at a local elementary school and unfortunately due to space constraints, he had to drop out of the program. The search was on for a replacement school. After contacting several Chinese centers, I decided to go with Pinnacle and I could not be more happy with this decision. My oldest has learned as much Chinese in 9 months here as he did in 3 years of doing the immersion program. At the beginning of the year, he was a mono tone speaker. After 6 months, he could now use 3 of 4 Chinese tones. My kindergartner, who knew next to nothing, learned colors and numbers within the first 2 weeks of attending Pinnacle. Pinnacle makes their lessons interesting through games, art and science. For example, they did an experiment to simulate volcano eruption and then taught them chinese words related to volcanos. In Feb, they were taught things related to Chinese new year culture. The teachers even had a food feast showing the kids all the traditional Chinese new year food. As the teacher to student ratio is really low, the teachers can also give the children alot of individual attention and the teachers will work with the parents if there is any particular need. The teachers here take a personal interest in each and every child and will constantly update you on their learning progress. read more

I used to send my two kids to weekend Chinese school but two months into last school year, my daughter refused to go anymore. So I decided to sign them up at Pinnacle to continue their Chinese study, and I was so glad I did. For the last nine months of the school year they have thoroughly enjoyed their time there. As my two kids have learned Chinese before, the teachers provided them more customized curriculum to advance their levels. They not only greatly improved their Chinese as a language, but also learned many aspects of the Chinese culture through the many well-designed activities. Due to the careful design and dedicated teaching by the teachers there, the learning process is so much easy and the learning environment is full of fun, my kids just naturally grasp the language, especially in reading and writing which used to be much much harder. In addition, my two kids have also advanced on other subjects such as math and writing through the fun exercises the teacher provided to them. The low teacher/student ratio is a great benefit, since it truly provides a great personalized learning environment that is much superior than those crowded bilingual after schools in the tri-valley area. I was so happy that I made the choice of sending my kids there and would highly recommend parents who would like their kids to learn Chinese and other school subjects in a fun environment to try it out. read more

My son has attended the after school Chinese program since the beginning of the school year. I was looking for a Chinese immersion program as my son had no prior exposure to Chinese before at home. My son seemed to really enjoy all the variety of activities that they had presented to him and they would post videos of their activities such as arts and crafts with changing weekly themes, friendly competitions for vocabulary which the children seemed to enjoy rather than simply repetition learning, and at the end of the school year, they put on an impressive talent show which they sang songs and acted out scenes all in Chinese. It was a delight to witness how much they cumulatively learned over the course of a year. Ms. Bing Durzan is in charge of the program and really seems to take care of the details of the curriculum and works with each child to their full potential as well as is openly available to communicate with parents about their child. I highly recommend the program for instilling a full range of Chinese culture and language exposure. read more

I rarely write any reviews for any business, but I feel compelled to recommend this school to anyone who is in search of a Chinese Bilingual Program. My son has gone to this school for almost a school year, it's amazing how much Chinese he has learned. He loves to go to this school every day as they make it very interesting and fun, it's all hands-on, project and activity based learning and it's Chinese immersion. In fact I went to pick him up Friday, I was very impressed that the children were performing a play in Chinese. What a joy to see my son speaking Chinese. I highly recommend this school. read more

If you're shopping for a suitable Chinese program for your child, I highly recommend Pinnacle Learning, their Chinese program is amazingly effective and interesting. I can't tell you how impressed I was when I went to watch the talent show their students performed, their teacher to student ratio is very low, I feel like we're paying for after school tuition whereas getting private school quality. You got to give it a try, you'd be pleased with this school. read more

Pinnacle Learning has a great Chinese immersion program for elementary school children. Like many parents we searched far and wide trying to find a place that taught our second grader Chinese, always coming up short. This is the first after school that actually taught him Chinese and our son's Chinese dramatically improved and expanded over his time there. We look forward to having him at Pinnacle for another year of learning and improving his Chinese. read more