Course Objective:

Instructor will create an enjoyable interactive learning environment  and  give students the opportunities
to practice the oral speaking in the classes. Instructor will provide various activities in reading and
speaking to help expand daily vocabularies especially for younger children .Several techniques would be
used in assisting the students to develop their abilities of reading and speaking Chinese by singing and
dancing. They will find learning the Chinese language is not as difficult as they may have thought.

Course Introduction:

This class is designed for the beginner's level of Practice Chinese, especially for the young native
speakers of English who are learning verbal usage in Mandarin and who have little or no previous experience
in learning Chinese.

The content of this course contains daily vocabularies as well as conversations as a part the learning
process.  Numbers, people, nationality, occupations and family will be primarily introduced to the
students step by step. . The flexibility and the delightfulness of a teaching style is surely concerned as
well as permeated during teaching process. In order to build confidence in speaking Chinese, the students
will learn identification, greetings as part of the conversation. Besides, Chinese Culture and history would
be properly introduced through the teaching progress. We feel this is the effective way of learning reading,
writing and speaking Chinese.

All lessons would be effectively taught in Mandarin Chinese with English explanation whenever necessary.
Homework is assigned at each class for students to practice during the week.

For the Beginners I & II, a suitable textbook would be selected for the instructor to use as teaching plans.   

Each semester will last 16 weeks. There will be two retained semesters through the academic year of 2007-2008.
The continuation of this subject will be related to the success of the two semesters