For children over 3 years old. This course teaches theme-related nursery rhymes, handcrafts, talking, word-picture learning and classical poetry, designed to develop a child’s basic sense for Chinese and increasing their listening and speaking abilities. The class contains themes of daily life, time, earth, family, animals, and seasons. Through two semesters of learning, students will be able to master around 50 frequently used words and express themselves in Chinese. They will also be able to read or recite around 6 poems and several songs. An end of semester project will encompass the entire semesters learning into a play that will be put on for the families of the students. THE TOPICS!

For children at least attending kindergarten. This course will utilize nursery rhymes and daily character recognition. Each class students will recite a nursery rhyme and then each of the characters within the nursey rhyme will be taught in detail. In addition, students will practice telling a story, using characters that they have previously learned to reinforce them and help with memorization. THE TOPICS!

For children at least attending 1st grade. Students will learn a variety of stories and gain knowledge of characters through these stories. Students will practice telling a story, using characters they have previously learned to reinforce them and help with memorization. Teachers will show students the formation of each character, including breaking down the separate parts of the character. THE TOPICS!

For adults and teenagers. Designed for students that have little to no background in learning Chinese. Students will learn pinyin (Romanization of Chinese characters) and we will focus on listening and speaking. Basic words, around 400 characters, will be taught so that students can have a base in Chinese language.