Hope to have fun and learn a lot in the coming weeks.

you are my courage, friends! keep it up.

Fall season is here. It is a season of harvest. I am so proud of you learned so much in the past. Now let’s harvest and plant some for future.

Focus:

1.    Computer Engineer Chinese: Pin Yin IME (Input Method Editor); Language Pack for OS, Language Pack for other applications;

2.   Reading – we will finish 1 to 2 Chinese 3^rd grade articles together in this 8 sessions

3.    Radicals: combine with the reading above we will learn the common used radicals and characters

4.    Exercises – we will find some exercises associate with current class for you to exercise and memorize what we learned in the class

5.    Share the learning experience – we have Mike Friedman; Mike Hedley; Matthew Bucher and other students volunteer to share their learning experience, give us a talk on the topic they are mastered at in each session

Structure

20-30 min read the articles together and learn the characters, grammar and radicals.

20-30 min exercises, practice with classmates or native speakers who I invited to our classroom, share experiences.

10 min wrap up

Session1:

Article1: Fall (秋天)

Radicals: 火， 木

grammar: de 的

Session2:

Article1: Fall (秋天) continue

Radicals: 禾， 草

Grammar: de地

Session3：

            IME

            Students share the learning tool and experience

Session4:

            Language Pack

Students share the learning tool and experience

Session5:

            Article 2: 秋天

            秋天到， 秋天到

田里庄稼长得好

棉花朵朵白

大豆粒粒饱

高粱涨红了脸

稻子笑弯了腰

秋天到，秋天到

园里果子长得好

枝头接柿子

架上挂葡萄

黄橙橙的是梨

红通通的是枣

秋天到， 秋天到

地理蔬菜长得好

冬瓜披白纱

茄子穿紫袍

白菜一片绿油油

又青又红是辣椒

            Grammar: color and得

Session 6 Prepare vocabulary for next session

Session 7 trip to local Chinese church for their Chinese service

Session 8 wrap up

Spring is here.

Let’s enjoy the beautiful learning time together.

Session 1

Session1-4 we will read and finish one Chinese article (New for advance students)

5-10min You will learn PinYin, 4 different tones

One poem to practice tone: 春晓

20min Conversation: Greeting, introduction to each other in Chinese

One radical:

日，鸟

New Characters春晓, 时间

Session2 IME workshop

5-10min, review what we learned last time. One person present homework for us

IME –use PinYin to input Chinese characters

Bring your laptop, let’s practice typing together

Write your introduction in Chinese and post to our website

Session3 

5 min: learn numbers

20min Conversation: Bargain

Radical: 贝， 金

New characters:

钱，贵，贱

Homework: post your bargain conversation to our website

Session4

5-10min, review what we learned last time. Two person practice the homework for us

Guest presentation: Chinese culture and MS Beijing working environment etc.

Session5 China geography and Chinese food

Conversation: restaurant, order food, pay the bill

八大菜系（北京菜：烤鸭，涮羊肉，上海菜）

Radical: 米， 火， 食

New characters: 米粉， 炒饭， 鸡，

Poem：锄禾

Homework: go to a local Chinese restaurant, order food use Chinese only J

Session6 Geography and food continue

四川菜：火锅，宫保鸡丁，  广东菜： 点心

Taste:

Phases

Session7 VTC Meeting with MS China

Session8 – free topic

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Schedule:

We meet every Friday 5-645pm. Every semester we have 8 sessions. After that we will have 1-2 free sessions to collect feedback and build next Semester’s curriculum.

Our Curriculum:

We build our own curriculum together.  Yes, the curriculum is build in the beginning of the class based on students input.

Our Class:

We have from beginning level (no nothing about Chinese) to advance level (fluent in Chinese) all together in one class. Is it possible? Yes, it is not only possible but also FUN! Advance students share their learning experiences, they also act as teaching assistant. We will always make the learning content mixed with something entry level and something advance level, so everyone can learn something from the class.

What do we learn:

we learn Chinese,

Chinese living culture, food culture, business culture.

Chinese literature: Cheng Yu, Poem (Tang Poem), Song Poem, Chinese Opera, modern Chinese

Chinese history, Chinese geography, etc.

We learn PinYin, reading, conversation, writing use business software,

The key is we have FUN together!

Learning Materials:

We use MS software: MS Ping Yin IME, Word, Live online dictionary, etc. software to reach fast learning experience and meet direct business needs.

We use China primary school 1-5 grade Chinese book as standard teach references

We use Chinese dictionary

We use online learning materials recommended from our students.

If you have any recommendations, we will add in our class.

Tuition

Our tuition is $5.00/class. We giving back our tuition to MS giving Education fund.

Why $5.00? It is one kid in China rural area one year school supply. Many poor kids have to drop school because their family cannot afford $5.00/year. We give while we learn here.

Who are we:

Since 2005, we have over 50 students inside and outside of MS from over 15 different countries. Youngest is 6 years old.

They are from U.S. Canada, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippine, Portugal, Holland, Italy, Austria, France, German, China HK, Indonesia, Nigeria, India, Japan,

I am proud of everyone of my students. We will have this continue for as long as we have students want to learn China