Chinese (Mandarin) Language School -
Melbourne
Language Champs Chinese (Mandarin) Language School offers
adult and children's
language classes or private tuition for adults, corporate
and children.
Chinese (Mandarin) Tutor VCE
Chinese (Mandarin) tutoring at Language Champs is conducted as one on
one classes or small group sessions. It is ideal for the
Chinese (Mandarin) language VCE student looking to excel and get an added
advantage. It is also ideal for the traveller who needs to
develop their language skills prior to their trip to China.
Chinese (Mandarin) Class - Various Melbourne Locations
We have small-group Chinese classes with a wide
variety of times available. If you do not see a suitable
time, give us a call as we are adding classes every week.
Our classes are fun and social.
Our Chinese school classes are becoming one our hottest choices
thanks to a recognition of the importance of China in our region.
The adult class is very popular choice and always
receives tremendous feedback. It is fun and social and is
always in demand.
Chinese (Mandarin) language class schedule
| Times |
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We |
Th |
Fr |
Sa |
| 9:30 |
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Moorabbin
2-3 yo
9:30-10:30
3-5 yo
9:30-12:00 |
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| 10:00 |
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| 11:00 |
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| 12:00 |
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| 12:30 |
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Private Tuition
available |
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| 1:30 |
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| 3:00 |
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Private Tuition |
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| 4:00 |
Moorabbin
5-8yo
4:00-5:00 |
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| 5:00 |
Moorabbin
9-14 yo
5:00-6:00 |
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Moorabbin
Private Tuition Available |
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| 6:30 |
Level 1
Mandarin Adult-Moorabbin |
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Private Tuition
Available |
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| 7:30 |
Level 2 - Chinese
(Mandarin) Adult |
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Private Tuition |
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| 8:30 |
Private Tuition
Available |
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Private Tuition |
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Note: Private tuition or small group sessions can be
scheduled at your convenience.
Click here for a Chinese Translator
or Chinese Translation Services
Children's Tuition per
10 week term
1 hr. $165
+GST
1.5 hr $220
+GST
2.5 hr $330
+GST
Adult Tuition per
10 week term
- Group Classes
1 hr. $230
+GST
Note: These fees are pro-rated based on the actual
number of classes.
Chinese
Language Classes - Children
Our classes in Chinese for children start with children as
young as two years old. The pedagogy (teaching methods and
structure) are based on the developmental stages of the human
brain. Our Chinese (Mandarin) language classes build
progressively.
2-3 year olds. A perfect time to introduce your child to
language learning. Children and parents or caregivers have great
fun learning together singing songs, playing games and creating simple arts
& crafts. This class builds more than language
skills. Your child will develop social, physical and
attention skills and encourages motor and coordination skills
while playing Chinese (Mandarin) language activities.
3-5 year olds - 1 or 1.5 hours. Learning
takes place naturally as your child embarks on a wonderful
language adventure. We utilise colourful
visuals, games, arts & crafts, skits, puppets, dramatic play
and much more to stimulate and engage your child. The
program is filled with activities to develop essential early
childhood skills such as imagination, self expression and self
confidence explored in creative new ways.
3-5 year olds- 2.5 hours. A terrific way
to immerse your child in Chinese (Mandarin) language. Classes are offered in the
morning or afternoon. The following is a sample of this extended
session. Children hear native
speakers teaching in their native tongue in each activity.
Offered only at Moorabbin facility.
| 9:30-10:30 |
Teacher presents the planned
themed lesson as in our 1 hour session utilising colourful
visuals, games, arts & crafts, skits, puppets, dramatic
play and much more. |
| 10:30-10:50 |
Morning tea |
| 10:50-11:20 |
Art project(s) |
| 11:20-11:45 |
Indoor or outside play |
| 11:45-12:00 |
Review and play favourite
activities, parents arrive. |
5-7 year olds. At this age, children
are fully verbal and eager to expand their dialogues. We
incorporate more skits and games,
participatory activities and children have a lot of fun
interacting with each other. These classes are very
animated. In addition to acquiring new language skills
children can be creative, enhance their social and imagination
skills through storytelling, role play, movement, age-appropriate
games, music and other fun, educational activities. We strive to
present new knowledge and skills in ways that are developmentally
appropriate and stimulating.
7-9 year olds- As with the 5-7 year old group, we continue to
utilising age-appropriate activities, children have great fun with
conversing with each other, acting out skits and playing
stimulating games and activities.
Chinese
Language
As a language family Chinese has an estimated
nearly 1.2 billion speakers; Mandarin Chinese
alone has around 851 million native speakers,
outnumbering any other language in the world.
Spoken Chinese is distinguished by its high
level of internal diversity, though all spoken
varieties of Chinese are tonal and analytic.
There are between six and twelve main regional
groups of Chinese (depending on classification
scheme), of which the most populous (by far) is
Mandarin (c. 850 million), followed by Wu (c.
90 million), Min (c. 70 million) and
Cantonese (c. 70 million). Most of these groups
are mutually unintelligible, though some, like
Xiang and the Southwest Mandarin dialects, may
share common terms and some degree of
intelligibility.
The standardized form of spoken Chinese is
Standard Mandarin "普通话/普通話 (pinyin: pǔtōnghùa);
国语/國語 (pinyin gúoyǔ)", based on the Beijing
dialect. Standard Mandarin is the official
language of the Peoples Republic of China , the
Republic of China in Taiwan, as well as one of
four official languages of Singapore . Chinese—de
facto, Standard Mandarin—is one of the six
official languages of the United Nations . Of
the other varieties, Standard Cantonese is
common and influential in Cantonese-speaking
overseas communities, and remains one of the
official languages of Hong Kong (together with
English) and of Macau .
Source:
Wikipedia reviewed 11/3/2008. There is a lot more
information at Wikipedia.
