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Manhattan Mandarin After School & Youth Mandarin Programs offers After School Mandarin classes, private Mandarin lessons, remote group Mandarin classes, Infant & Toddler Mandarin classes, HSK and YCT test preparation, and Mahjongg classes. The program includes options for both younger beginners and more advanced learners, with younger students learning through games, songs, and activities, and advanced learners focusing on reading, writing, and more formal conversation. Families can also create a pod class if existing class times do not work, and Mahjongg classes are taught by an instructor with 25 years of teaching experience.
• Ages: 0–12 years old
Manhattan Mandarin began in 2012 and runs Mandarin after-school programs at over 40 schools nationwide, including St. Bernard's, Chapin, Allen-Stevenson, and Buckley, with programs in Washington D.C., Boston, Miami, New York City, Pittsburgh, and New Jersey, as listed. The organization also offers immersion-excursion China trips and has programs and students across the country and beyond, with locations listed in New York, London, Miami, Austin, Boston, Westchester, Hamptons, Washington DC, Salt Lake City, and online. Manhattan Mandarin’s founders Harry and Jamie Keyte have over 25,000 hours of combined Mandarin teaching experience and are described as widely recognized as top Mandarin tutors for beginners and non-heritage students.
The leadership team includes Founder & CEO Jamie Keyte, Head of Tutoring Harry Keyte, COO Michelle Tomizawa, and David Cheng, co-founder of Manhattan Mandarin Real Estate. Instructors include professionals such as Jamie Keyte, who founded Manhattan Mandarin in 2012 and has taught over 5000 hours of private lessons and established after school Mandarin programs at 30+ schools, and Harry Keyte, a professional Mandarin tutor based in London with over 10,000 hours of tutoring experience and founder of Manhattan Mandarin UK in 2022. Other team members include native Mandarin speakers and educators such as Michelle Tomizawa, Dr. Shuang Wu, Lauren Wilmore, Christine Kaplan, Sophie (Shichao) Shen, and Jennifer Zhang, with backgrounds in areas such as Asian Studies, foreign language teaching, business, music, and high-level bilingual communication. Sophie Shen is a certified CTCSOL Mandarin tutor, and Jennifer Zhang has been recognized twice by Forbes Magazine as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Chinese.
The program states that its ultimate goal is to establish a solid language foundation upon which to build in the future and to instill in students a lifelong interest in Mandarin and Chinese culture. It states that it is delighted to support a child’s journey to Mandarin fluency from infancy through adulthood and that it looks forward to doing everything it can to support a student’s or child’s Mandarin learning journey. Manhattan Mandarin states that it ensures continuity in a child’s linguistic and cultural education with acclaimed classes and top-tier teachers for the child’s school years and beyond.
One parent testimonial states that three boys have been taking classes with Manhattan Mandarin for three years through their school and, more recently, through private lessons, and describes the teacher Jay as engaging their interest in the language with speaking, listening to tones, songs, and games, and notes that the boys often sing their Mandarin songs during the week.
Last updated July 29, 2026.
• Ages: 0–12 years old
Manhattan Mandarin began in 2012 and runs Mandarin after-school programs at over 40 schools nationwide, including St. Bernard's, Chapin, Allen-Stevenson, and Buckley, with programs in Washington D.C., Boston, Miami, New York City, Pittsburgh, and New Jersey, as listed. The organization also offers immersion-excursion China trips and has programs and students across the country and beyond, with locations listed in New York, London, Miami, Austin, Boston, Westchester, Hamptons, Washington DC, Salt Lake City, and online. Manhattan Mandarin’s founders Harry and Jamie Keyte have over 25,000 hours of combined Mandarin teaching experience and are described as widely recognized as top Mandarin tutors for beginners and non-heritage students.
The leadership team includes Founder & CEO Jamie Keyte, Head of Tutoring Harry Keyte, COO Michelle Tomizawa, and David Cheng, co-founder of Manhattan Mandarin Real Estate. Instructors include professionals such as Jamie Keyte, who founded Manhattan Mandarin in 2012 and has taught over 5000 hours of private lessons and established after school Mandarin programs at 30+ schools, and Harry Keyte, a professional Mandarin tutor based in London with over 10,000 hours of tutoring experience and founder of Manhattan Mandarin UK in 2022. Other team members include native Mandarin speakers and educators such as Michelle Tomizawa, Dr. Shuang Wu, Lauren Wilmore, Christine Kaplan, Sophie (Shichao) Shen, and Jennifer Zhang, with backgrounds in areas such as Asian Studies, foreign language teaching, business, music, and high-level bilingual communication. Sophie Shen is a certified CTCSOL Mandarin tutor, and Jennifer Zhang has been recognized twice by Forbes Magazine as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Chinese.
The program states that its ultimate goal is to establish a solid language foundation upon which to build in the future and to instill in students a lifelong interest in Mandarin and Chinese culture. It states that it is delighted to support a child’s journey to Mandarin fluency from infancy through adulthood and that it looks forward to doing everything it can to support a student’s or child’s Mandarin learning journey. Manhattan Mandarin states that it ensures continuity in a child’s linguistic and cultural education with acclaimed classes and top-tier teachers for the child’s school years and beyond.
One parent testimonial states that three boys have been taking classes with Manhattan Mandarin for three years through their school and, more recently, through private lessons, and describes the teacher Jay as engaging their interest in the language with speaking, listening to tones, songs, and games, and notes that the boys often sing their Mandarin songs during the week.
Last updated July 29, 2026.
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