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The field of teaching Chinese as a foreign language is in rapid development after the Covid pandemic. One primary reason is that digitalization and e-learning seem to make almost everything possible. However, due to restrictions encountered in institutes and the variety of different types of language learners, there are plenty of face-to-face language courses needed around the world. What kind of face-to-face Chinese course is unique and not replaceable by digital means remains to be discovered. This teaching design aims to integrate the strategy of acting training into TCFL courses. The first part of the article is about the demand for face-to-face courses that can be observed in Taiwan and overseas and also about the need for speaking and listening training. Secondly, this article explores what acting training strategies could and maybe should be applied in TCFL courses. The course design offered at the end of this article presents a practical syllabus for a 14 weeks Chinese course incorporating acting, the development of text parts by the learners, and their use for language learning in a course for advanced Chinese learners. This design has proven its worth in a course led by the author and is here recommended and shared to encourage similar endeavors at other institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]