Mandarin Chinese Classes at our Language Door School in Los Angeles. Serving students in West Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Malibu, Redondo Beach, Culver City and Manhattan Beach California.
Language Door offers small interactive Chinese classes in Los Angeles (L.A.) for young kids
and adults.
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For the Beginning A to C classes, we use "New
Practical Chinese Reader Textbook Volume 1, Workbook Volume 1, and
six-cassette pack" by the BLCU Press.
For the Beginning D to Intermediate B classes,
we use "New Practical Chinese Reader Textbook Volume 2" by the BLCU
Press. For subsequent classes, we provide handouts at
no charge.
Some of the material covered in the classes
follows:
Beginning A (chapters 1-6)
Topics - Greetings, are you busy?,
nationalities, nice to meet you, where's the dining room?, let's go
swimming, etc.
Grammar and usage - Pronunciation, tones, word order, pinyin, characters,
basic strokes, stroke order, combined character strokes, questions, question
words, sentences with an adjectival predicate, sentences with a verbal
predicate, etc.
Beginning B (chapters 7-10)
Topics - Do you know him?, how many people in
your family?, age, shopping for a CD, etc.
Grammar and usage - Attributives expressing possession, V/A-not-V/A
questions, abbreviated questions, position of adverbs, numeral-measure words
as attributives, date and days of the week, time as adverbials, sentences
with a nominal predicate, prepositional phrases, sentences with double
objects, "very", etc.
Beginning C (chapters 11-14)
Topics - I speak a little Chinese, I don't feel
well, I knew a pretty girl, happy birthday, etc.
Grammar and usage - Telling time, sentences with optative verbs for ability,
possibility or willingness, sentences with serial verb phrases for purpose,
sentences with double objects, sentences with a subject-predicate phrase as
predicate, alternative questions, the particle "le", pivotal sentences, four
kinds of simple sentences, six question types, etc.
Beginning D (chapters 15-18)
Topics - Changing money at the bank, filling out
forms, comparing things, buying clothes, at the post office, etc.
Grammar and usage - The complement of state, particle "le" confirming
completion or realization, reduplication of the verb, additional numbers,
methods of constructing characters, the simple directional complement,
verbal predicate, the time-measure complement, comparisons, the complement
of quantity, the resultative complement, etc.
Intermediate A (chapters 19-22)
Topics - Talking about hobbies, hurrying
somebody up, talking about sports matches, making an appointment, etc.
Grammar and usage - Sentences with serial verb phrases, the six basic
functional components of a Chinese sentence, sentences with a verbal
predicate, location words, sentences indicating existence, past experience,
the action-measure complement, etc.
Intermediate B (chapters 23-26)
Topics - Talking about plans, talking about
living conditions, visiting a patient, talking about language studies, etc.
Grammar and usage - The immediate future, the complex directional
complement, notional passive sentences, changed circumstances, the
progressive aspect of an action, the continuous aspect of an action of
state, resultative complements, conditional construction, etc.
Intermediate C, D, and Advanced Classes
If you would like to discuss material covered in these levels, contact us at our Los Angeles School.
Feedback from Our Students
"[The lessons were] Very friendly and were to get along with. I understood what the teacher
was trying to portray," Stephanie.
"This course strikes a good balance between structured learning and informal practice.
The class size is small so the experience is more intensive. Regina [the teacher] is a superb teacher.
She continuously fine-tunes the class to keep the students challenged and engaged.
She is also very expressive and enthusiastic, which makes the class a pleasure to attend.
Highly recommended,"
Pete.
"I enjoy the course material and the teacher," Yves.
"Very good course! The teacher is very nice and careful," Hyung-Seog.
"The class was thoroughly useful and enjoyable. Regina is very professional and friendly.
Thanks to Language Door I have managed to maintain a romance 6,000 miles away with a lady who does not speak English!"
Alex.
"Good for training comprehension and conversation," Elisa.
Language Description
Mandarin Chinese, spoken by approximately
885,000,000 people as their first language in the world (primarily in
China), is a subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages (e.g. Thai).
Chinese has a number of variants, such as XIAMEN (AMOY), LEIZHOU (LEI HUA,
LI HUA), CHAO-SHAN, etc. Some linguists regard them as different languages
while others believe that these are just dialects of Chinese. Similar to the
other Sino-Tibetan languages, Mandarin Chinese is tonal, having four
distinctive tones.
Further Information
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Learning a Language can be Fun
We currently offer the opportunity to learn Spanish, French, Chinese, English, Japanese, Arabic, Farsi, Korean and many more languages in our weekly language class program at our West Los Angeles Language Door School or the San Fernando Valley Language Door School in Encino. Our comfortable, casual environment helps to make learning the language of your choice fun and convenient. We schedule our classes at times that work for busy adults. Enrich your life as you learn one language or learn many.
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