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CHINESE
Chinese Language Program Highlights
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Fun & Engaging Content: Our Chinese language classes are carefully designed to maximize students’ learning experience. Students have plenty of opportunities to interact with their teachers and peers. They will also engage in a small group or one-on-one learning activities and games.
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Immersive Learning Environment: Theme-based activities, stories, games, and art/science social studies projects that suit students’ age level and developmental level.
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Highly Experience & Qualified Teachers: Our diverse and professional Chinese language team has extensive expertise in curriculum development, teaching, and education.
Instructor(s)
Miss Wan
Chinese Teacher
Miss Chen
Chinese Teacher
Miss He
Chinese Teacher
Level 0
We offer a theme-based program that incorporates language games, stories, songs, content-based activities such as science experiments, and seasonal and cultural topics related to students’ daily lives
IN-PERSON
Level 1
This program integrates MLP K Chinese textbooks with seasonal themes, subject matter concepts in history, geography, science, and ancient Chinese myths, legends, and fables reading.
IN-PERSON
ONLINE
Level 2
Our Intermediate level program focuses on developing Chinese literacy skills by following MLP 1st Grade Chinese textbooks.
ONLINE
IN-PERSON
Level 3
This program focuses on developing reading and writing skills in a small group setting (3 - 4 students).
ONLINE
Private 1-on-1
Flexible and customizable private 1-on-1 classes to meet your needs, from Beginner to Advanced levels.
IN-PERSON
ONLINE
Overview
Our beginner level Chinese program provides students with a fully immersive language learning environment where they will focus on the development of speaking and listening skills. We offer a theme-based program that incorporates language games, stories, songs, content-based activities such as science experiments, and seasonal and cultural topics related to students’ daily lives. Through these engaging and meaningful activities, students will be able to understand and respond to simple questions, statements, and commands in common topics such as greetings, family, school, etc. They will also accumulate new vocabulary words about colors, shapes, body parts, food, numbers, etc
Objectives
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150 vocabulary words
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Form simple sentences about their daily lives and culture-related topics;
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Express ideas and reasons about a familiar topic such as activities they like to do, favorite food, weather, clothes, etc.;
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Describing pictures
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Answer “why” questions
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Compare and contrast
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Engage in conversations and dialogues
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Understand different Chinese festivals
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Follow and tell stories in Chinese
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Read simple Chinese stories
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Beginning reader skills
Class Schedule
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IN-PERSON: Mondays, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Overview
This program integrates MLP K Chinese textbooks with seasonal themes, subject matter concepts in history, geography, science, and ancient Chinese myths, legends, and fables reading. The main focus is on developing students’ listening and speaking skills. However, we will also introduce basic Chinese characters and words so that students will begin to cultivate an understanding of the structure of Chinese characters through learning basic strokes.
Objectives
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280 - 330 vocabulary words
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Recite an easy Chinese poem
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Compare and contrast;
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Deliver simple speeches;
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Discuss subject matter concepts in history, geography, science, and ancient Chinese myths, legends, and fables reading
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Understand the structure of Chinese characters through learning basic strokes and radicals
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Read short stories and passages
Class Schedule
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ONLINE: Saturdays, 11:00pm - 12:00pm
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IN-PERSON: Mondays, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Overview
Our Intermediate level program focuses on developing Chinese literacy skills by following MLP 1st Grade Chinese textbooks. Students will be engaged in more complex conversations and discuss topics that require critical thinking and advanced vocabulary under the guidance of their teacher. Later on, students will be introduced to Pinyin (the Chinese phonetic system) so that they can read Chinese books and passages independently. In addition, students will study radicals in depth so that they can use them as a tool to infer the meanings of new and complicated Chinese characters. Students will also practice Chinese character writing and they will learn how to follow the correct stroke order.
Objectives
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600 vocabulary words
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Discuss topics of personal and general interest and some academic topics
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Connect sentences smoothly, and organize speech into paragraphs using connectors
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Understand complex academic discourse and highly idiomatic speech in conversation;
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Understand and be able to use Chinese idioms
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Learn Pinyin (the Chinese phonetic system)
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Read long stories and passages, Chinese poems and idioms
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Understand subject-related reading
Class Schedule
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ONLINE: Saturdays, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
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IN-PERSON: Mondays, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Overview
This program focuses on developing reading and writing skills in a small group setting (3 students). Students will be introduced to Pinyin (the Chinese phonetic system) so that they can read Chinese books and passages independently. In addition, students will study radicals in depth so that they can use them as a tool to infer the meanings of new and complicated Chinese characters. Students will also practice Chinese character writing and they will learn how to follow the correct stroke order.
Objectives
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Recognize and read Chinese characters
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Independently write Chinese characters
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Learn Pinyin
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Learn how to look up new characters in a dictionary
Class Schedule
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ONLINE: MLP 2nd Grade - Saturdays, 10:00am - 11:00am
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ONLINE: MLP 4th Grade - Saturdays, 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Overview
Learn at your own pace and practice learning Chinese with your own dedicated Chinese teacher. Personalize your learning path with the flexibility or learning either in-person or online, giving you the ability to learn anywhere, anytime.
Highlights
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Learn Mandarin 1 on 1 with a personal tutor
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Ideal for beginner to advanced learners
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Learn either in-person or online
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All teachers are professional native Chinese speakers
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Customize your own course and lessons
Payment/Schedule
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Learn at your own pace, with as many classes as you want, when you want and where you want
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Simple pay for a 5- or 10-class package
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Let us know your needs and whether you prefer online or in-person classes