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| Caryn Louie |
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Mandarin
Chinese I/Mandarin Chinese II
Course
Information
Chinese I is designed to provide students with the fundamentals for learning to understand, speak, and begin to read and write Mandarin Chinese. During the first semester (Mandarin I), the course focuses on developing accurate pronunciation and tones, learning to understand the spoken language in context and developing a foundation of basic sentence patterns, questions and every day vocabulary. The writing system (radicals and stroke order) is introduced and computers are used to help students develop their character recognition skills. |
 Prerequisites: Recommendation by school counselor for Mandarin Chinese I; C or better in the first semester Chinese I course to continue to the Chinese II level in second semester
Material requirements: A fee of $20 per school will
be assessed for calligraphy supplies - NCSSM will invoice site.
A fee of $10 per student will be assessed for the online students account.
(NCSSM is picking up the majority of the cost.)
Site requirements: Student access to computer
with Internet during class time. Computers must be installed
with the following software prior to the start of the school
year: Microsoft's East Asian language support in Windows so
as to enable simplified Chinese characters typing recognition,
and Pinyinput typing pinyin with tone marks.
Recommended
weight: General
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