Lessons will be taught in both English and Mandarin Chinese. 

There are 12 levels in the Mandarin Chinese School.  Learners can learn Mandarin from the pre-foundation level all the way to high school level.  This is Level 3 (foundation) level. 

Goals: 
This course is designed for learners to be able to immediately use what they have learned in their daily life.  Students will learn through dialogues, vocabularies, sentence patterns, and games.   This class focuses on speaking, listening & pronunciation, but learners still learn the basic of the Mandarin School goals. 

What to expect:   
1.	Real hands-on learning experience:  Students have the opportunity to use what they learn to create their own sentences while having conversations with me. 
2.	Learn practical daily life conversation and say them in the correct way and with cultural context. 
3.	Play games to help students remember what they have learned. We will do role play each time so learners have many opportunities to practice what they have learned in the class with the native speaker (me) and practice with their classmates.  
4.	Learn from a native speaker with proper Mandarin tones and with a neutral Mandarin accent. (I was born and educated in Taipei, Taiwan and I completed my master in the U.S.A.).  I will help students to correctly pronounce tones and provide a structured approach to learning Mandarin Chinese. Pronunciation is one of the key ingredients when learning a foreign language.   
5.	Learners have options to utilize both Bopomofo and Pinyin, simplified characters and also traditional character

Weekly topic:
Week 1. Hello (learn how greeting, introducing, asking questions)
Week 2. How many family members? (learn how to use question words and quantifiers)
Week 3. How many classmates? (learn "two" & "and also")
Week 4. Food & invite people come to eat. 
Week 5. Seasons: summer & winter. (learn "very", "a little", "too")
Week 6. Birthday (learn "it's almost", "ok?", numbers "1 to 30")
Week 7. Let's doing something together. (learn "together" & body part)
Week 8. What do you do later? (learn sport & leisure activities)
Week 9. Where is the object? (learn "where", "on top of", "under", "inside", "behind", basic furniture & a little while)
Week 10. Who? (learn family members, "who are they?", "to the right", "to the left")
Week 11. How do you get to school? (learn transportation methods, "I wish/I want")
Week 12. Making phone calls. (learn "Mrs.", "Aunt", & phone etiquette)