Course Descriptions
Chinese Language, K
Chinese Language, MLP 1-3
1. Students will learn about 1400 characters and 2000 phrases which are commonly used with 90% frequency.
2. Students will be capable of writing > 500 characters, applying >800 words, and synthesizing sentences using >300 phrases.
3. When students are capable of recognizing characters, Pin Yin will be introduced at MLP 3.
4. Students will be able to read and study many stories, fables, jokes and tongue twisters, children’s poems and riddles.
Adult Chinese
This Adult Mandarin Chinese course is intended for students with no prior knowledge of any Chinese dialect or written Chinese. This course will focus on teaching practical, daily Chinese language. Our school will teach the Chinese language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in this order. The Chinese Pinyin romanization system will be taught, including tones, rules of phonetic spelling, and pronunciation drills. Chinese characters will also be taught, including their creation and evolution, stroke order, structure, and the writing system. Reading and writing skills are introduced; these include basic sentence pattern analysis.
Basic Chinese (as a Second Language)
These courses are designed for students who do not have a Mandarin Chinese-speaking environment at home. The class will be focusing on listening to and speaking Chinese. Material will be developed for the class to assist students to develop "ears" for the four tones in Chinese pronunciation, "a mouth and a tongue" for speaking Chinese when giving objects and subjects, and "eyes" for recognition of simple characters. As the students progress in learning, simple Chinese character writing will be introduced. When graduating from the CSL class, the students should have developed listening skills for Chinese. As they progress through the program, more skills will be introduced in listening and speaking, and more character recognition will be introduced.
Children's Chinese Folk Dance
This class will offer children the opportunity to learn Chinese folk dance, taught by master teacher Zhou Na.
The kindergarten class emphasizes two important factors, listening and speaking, through games, songs, and movement which eventually lead to character recognition. This teaching method brings out children’s natural talent in sound recognition. Through repetition, children will link the sound with the characters. The kindergarten class will develop children’s Chinese language sense and their interest in learning Chinese with creative teaching methods.
Chinese Language, MLP 1-3
1. Students will learn about 1400 characters and 2000 phrases which are commonly used with 90% frequency.
2. Students will be capable of writing > 500 characters, applying >800 words, and synthesizing sentences using >300 phrases.
3. When students are capable of recognizing characters, Pin Yin will be introduced at MLP 3.
4. Students will be able to read and study many stories, fables, jokes and tongue twisters, children’s poems and riddles.
Adult Chinese
This Adult Mandarin Chinese course is intended for students with no prior knowledge of any Chinese dialect or written Chinese. This course will focus on teaching practical, daily Chinese language. Our school will teach the Chinese language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in this order. The Chinese Pinyin romanization system will be taught, including tones, rules of phonetic spelling, and pronunciation drills. Chinese characters will also be taught, including their creation and evolution, stroke order, structure, and the writing system. Reading and writing skills are introduced; these include basic sentence pattern analysis.
Basic Chinese (as a Second Language)
These courses are designed for students who do not have a Mandarin Chinese-speaking environment at home. The class will be focusing on listening to and speaking Chinese. Material will be developed for the class to assist students to develop "ears" for the four tones in Chinese pronunciation, "a mouth and a tongue" for speaking Chinese when giving objects and subjects, and "eyes" for recognition of simple characters. As the students progress in learning, simple Chinese character writing will be introduced. When graduating from the CSL class, the students should have developed listening skills for Chinese. As they progress through the program, more skills will be introduced in listening and speaking, and more character recognition will be introduced.
Children's Chinese Folk Dance
This class will offer children the opportunity to learn Chinese folk dance, taught by master teacher Zhou Na.
Chinese Art (for young children and more advanced students, by level)
The class will cover the basics of Chinese brush painting principles and techniques to depict objects of daily life. The students will learn how to use brush, color, ink and the traditional Chinese writing and painting tools and will be asked to apply the techniques in painting objects surrounding them. The aim is to stimulate students’ interest and train them to express themselves with Chinese brush painting skills.
Chess
This class will teach international Chess, taught by an experienced instructor.
