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Chinese Classes at our Language Door School in San Diego. Serving students in San Diego, El Cajon, Santee, Chula Vista, La Mesa, La Jolla California.
Learn a
language today, open the door to tomorrow!
Language Door San Diego offers small interactive conversional Chinese classes! Our comfortable, casual environment helps to make learning Chinese 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.
Ni hao!
Mandarin Chinese has become one of the most popular foreign languages in recent years. China has become an economic powerhouse, and more and more companies do business in that country every year.
Here are some interesting facts about this language:
Mandarin is the the official spoken language of the People's Republic of China, the official language of the Republic of China (Taiwan), and one of the four official languages of Singapore.
Mandarin is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.
The U.S. Department of Education gives FLAP grants (Foreign Language Assistance Program) to innovative K–12 foreign-language programs in critical languages. Mandarin is one of them.
The College Board decided for the first time this year to offer an AP test in Mandarin. Over 2,400 high schools expressed interest in the new AP program.
Mandarin is the most widely spoken language in the world (based on the number of native-language speakers) with 873 million native speakers, Spanish is second with 322 million native speakers and English is third with 309 million native speakers. (Ethnologue, 2005 estimates)
Based on recent growth rates, China's economy will surpass that of the U.S. in purchasing power between 2012 and 2015; by 2025, China is likely to be the world's largest economic power by almost any measure. (Holz, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
As you can see, a knowledge of Mandarin Chinese is indispensable for anyone who does international business, especially in China.
So, how can one in the San Diego area learn Chinese and advance their career? Easy...enroll in Language Door San Diego's Mandarin Chinese program!
Please check the schedule.
For the beginning and
intermediate classes, we use "Ultimate
Chinese Basic-Intermediate" by Living Language. There is also an optional eight cassette package that accompanies the
book. For the advanced classes, we
provide handouts at no charge.
Beginning A (chapters 1-4)
Topics - Greetings, what do you do?, the family,
and nationalities.
Grammar and usage - Pronunciation, tones, words and syllables, word order,
names and titles, adjectival verbs, "to be", pronouns and possessives,
particles, direct and indirect objects, negation, question words, phrases of
location, numbers, negation, adverbial phrases of time, etc.
Beginning B (chapters 5-9)
Topics - Time, dumplings, houses, taking a taxi,
and asking for directions.
Grammar and usage - More numbers, telling time, before and after, days of
the week, dates, asking age, measure words, comparisons, giving directions,
politeness terms, etc.
Beginning C (chapters 10-14)
Topics - Chinese characters, shopping, at a
hotel, sight-seeing, and at a restaurant.
Grammar and usage - Describing an action, estimating numbers, more measure
words, money and prices, the particle "le", relative clauses, completed
action, ordering food, resultant verbs of completion, etc.
Beginning D (chapters 15-19)
Topics - There's been a robbery!, a wedding, the
telephone, at the bank, and at the post office.
Grammar and usage - Resultant verbs of direction, resultant verbs of
perception, reduplication of measure words, current actions, interest,
ratios, "to be wrong", "to give", methods of mailing, "to be able to", etc.
Intermediate A (chapters 20-24)
Topics - Sports, an appointment, habits, music,
and spring festival.
Grammar and usage - Again, additional particle "le", various idiomatic
expressions, potential resultant verbs, easy and difficult, talking about
years, "every", summary of resultant verbs, etc.
Intermediate B (chapters 25-29)
Topics - Computers, museums, at the airport,
giving gifts, and the concept of face.
Grammar and usage - "Why" and "because", "to know", various conjunctions,
describing an action, verb reduplication, exclamations, causative sentences,
negative suggestions, etc.
Intermediate C (chapters 30-34)
Topics - Visiting a doctor, medicine, holidays,
the body, and climate.
Grammar and usage - Passive sentences, various expressions and
constructions, multiple negatives, "more and more", compass points, etc.
Intermediate D (chapters 35-40)
Topics - Clothes, a trip to the park, giving
descriptions, education, talking about the future, and a banquet.
Grammar and usage - Resultant verbs with long descriptive phrases, more
expressions and idiomatic usage, reduplication of measure words, review of
the uses of "le", adding to a noun or adjective to make an adverb,
indicating future, etc.
Advanced Classes
Topics - Discussion of articles, issues,
literature, etc.
Grammar and usage - As appropriate related to conversation topics.
If you would like to discuss material covered in these levels, contact us at our San Diego Language Door School.
Feedback from Our Students
"So far, so good. Regina is very patient with our progress.
The printed dialogue sheet is a nice welcome change to exercise the lesson's new vocabulary,"
Vince.
"Having fun," Mark.
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
For further information about
Chinese classes please contact us at our Language Door School in San Diego Thank you!
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