Welcome parents and learners! I am Ms. Amy. In this ongoing class, we will meet twice a week to learn to speak Mandarin and read and write simplified Chinese. I will tailor lessons to your student's interests and needs.

Please feel free to bring your materials or assignments to our class. You can also let me know if there are certain areas you would like specialized practice in so that I can identify some useful materials for us to work with together.

We will work on learning pronunciation, high-frequency characters, terms and phrases, language skills for communication, practicing writing Chinese characters and reading levelled texts.

Each class will be specific to the student's proficiency and needs, this is an example of typical topics covered in each lesson:

Week 1: Greetings, Pinyin, tones, stokes, Numbers1-5
Week 2: Greetings, Numbers6-10, Spring Festival 
Week 3: Numbers 11-20, Lantern Festival
Week 4: My Family 1
Week 5: My Family 2
Week 6: Dates
Week 7:  Week
Week 8:  Birthday
Week 9: Animals 
Week 10: My pets 
Week 11: Fruits 
Week 12: Colors 
Week 13: My clothes 
Week 14: My body
Week 15: Mother's Day
Week 16: My home
Week 17:  Sports
Week 18:  Summer break

class time breakdown:
10 min - review what we learned through conversations or fun activities using flashcards, pictures, Zoom whiteboard, etc.
15 min - learn new materials like Pinyin, characters, terms, phrases, and short sentences, practice writing characters, etc.
5 min - practice what we learned in conversation or Picture Talk.

I kindly ask you to give me a short note about your Chinese language skills and needs so that I can be more prepared and make the learning more efficient.