CompuChinese: August 2009

Friday, August 28, 2009

Preps for the New School Year

1. I have a new email address for the students in Foster City: compuchinese@yahoo.com
Every parent please send me an email by 8/30, and tell me you child's name and email, so that I can confirm your addresses. Every time when I email the students, I will make cc to the parents.

2. Every student must have pinyin input in the computer by 8/30. Please down load: www.google.com/ime/pinyin
Every student should have the character stroke order animation. If not, please use this website:
http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/character-stroke-order.php?searchChinese=1&zi=%E5%9C%8B

3. Every student of 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800 must create his or her own blog by 8/30. You will write compositions in your blog, and then speak to the class. Please visit my blog on:
www.blogger.com
User's name: compuchinese@yahoo.com
Password: teachermei
Students of 100 and 200 should be ready to use power point to write compositions.

4. Please note that you install the IQChinese software, each product key will match each computer machine code. Therefore, when you register with "A computer", this product key can only be used in "A computer", and can not be used in "B computer". So, you have to decide which computer you want to register with by 8/30.

5. I will give every student a binder in the first class. You have to print many pages of each lesson. A printer is needed for frequent use. Please remember to put the homework into the binder and bring it to the class every time.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Letter to the Parents and Students

August 27, 2009

Dear Parents and Students,

August 31 is the first day of Compu Chinese School in 2009-2010 school year. This is a totally new Chinese school that offers an easy, enjoyable and effective learning experience for learners of Chinese as a foreign language.

Our program employs innovative teaching methodologies and computer applications to enhence language learning, as well as keep students motivated in and outside of the classroom. The CD-ROM gives students access to audio, visual, and tactile information about the language all at once. Chinese typing is systematically integrated into the program to facilitate the acquisition and retention of new vocabulary and to equip students with a skill that is becoming increasingly important in the internet era wherein more and more professional and personal correspondence are done electronically.

I'd like to briefly discuss my homework policy. I do not give a great deal of homework as the teachers do in China. However, I do not give a little of homework as the teachers do here. Generally speaking, students will have 15-20 minutes of homework every day, including the weekends. Please let me know if you find your child is regularly having more than 45 minutes every day, because this indicates that we need to talk.

The purpose of homework is two-fold: to reinforce what we have learned in class, and to teach responsibility. A child who has done his or her homework is prepared, in class, to hear explanations of what he or she has had trouble with at home. A child without his homework done loses twice-both in learning through reinforcement, and in listening to explanations in class. I am also trying to help students develop good habits for future years - punctuality, high attendance, persistence, neat, well organized work, and the most important: responsibility. So, when a child arrives in class without his homework done, it is my policy to send a "Homework Alert" for parents to sign in a week. This is my way of communicating the importance of homework to your child. If an unusual circumstance prevents your child from doing his homework ( sickness, injury, or other serious problem ), would you please send a note with your child in the next class, so that he can be excused for not doing his homework.

You can expect you and your child get my email for homework at the sametime. Please email me if you have any questions. I normally check my email daily, and this is often the quickest, and most efficient way to get in touch with me. I am available to meet with parents every day after the class. Unlike the other teachers, I sincerely welcome parents to attend my class and give me your suggestions for improvements.

Now I have 150 monthly letter copies for elementary schools, and 60 copies for middle school students. Please see the attachments. You are welcome to get them this Sunday (August 30 ), 10:00-11:30, and bring your friends to my presentation.

Thanks for chosing Compu Chinese School and your cooperation in new school year.

Teacher Mei

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Pinyin Chart-5

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Saturday, August 22, 2009

CNN Report

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Compu Chinese Monthly Letter-Sept.-B

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Academic Calendar

Compu Chinese School
Academic Calendar

Aug.31 First Day of School
Sep.7 Labor Day-No School
Nov.11 Veteran’s Day-No School
Nov.26-27 Thanksgiving Holiday-No School

Dec.21-Jan.1 Winter Break-No School
Jan.4 First Day After Break
Jan.18 Martin Luther King Day-No School
Feb.15 President’s Day-No School
Feb.16 Chinese New Year-No School

Apr.5-9 Spring Break-No School
May 31 Memorial Day-No School
Jun.11 Last Day of School

Syllabus

Syllabus & Learning Goals
Volume Lesson Topic Learning Goal

Go100
Lesson 1 One Two Three Learn to count
Lesson 2 How Are You Learn the basic greetings
Lesson 3 Thank You. Learn to say: please, thanks, and sorry
Lesson 4 What Is Your Last Name? Learn to introduce oneself
Lesson 5 What Day Is It? Learn to say weeks, and months
Lesson 6 How Many People? Learn self-and-family introduction
Lesson 7 How Much? Learn to ask and answer the price
Lesson 8 What Time Is It? Learn to express ‘’time’’
Lesson 9 Making a Phone Call Learn how to conduct basic te
Lesson10 Hello Teacher Learn to use : teacher, student , classmate

Go200
Lesson 1 Going to school Learn the verbs：wear,take,say,see
Lesson 2 What I Have Learn to use the quantifiers
Lesson 3 What Kind Learn the adjectives and antonyms
Lesson 4 Look More & Listen More Learn the facial features
Lesson 5 What I Eat Learn the usage of three meals
Lesson 6 Walking & Driving Learn the traffic related phrases
Lesson 7 Playing Games Learn colors and use of double words
Lesson 8 The Four Seasons Learn the use of four seasons
Lesson 9 My Mother Learn the motherhood conception
Lesson10 My Father Learn the fatherhood conception

Go300
Lesson 1 My Family Learn to express family structure
Lesson 2 School Activities Learn to say the extracurricular activities
Lesson 3 Try Your Best Learn to express learning attitude
Lesson 4 I Am Sick Learn to describe illness
Lesson 5 Where Is My Home? Learn to say geography and directions
Lesson 6 My Mood Learn to describe your moods
Lesson 7 To See a Ball Game Learn to describe sports
Lesson 8 My Hobbies Learn to describe hobbies
Lesson 9 Television Programs Learn to discuss TV programs
Lesson10 The Weather Today The use of「著」and the metaphor

Go400
Lesson 1 My School Learn to describe school surroundings
Lesson 2 My School Lessons Learn to say the subjects, new semester
Lesson 3 Celebrating Birthday Learn the sentences in birthday celebration
Lesson 4 Keeping Pets Learn to look after pet
Lesson 5 My Vacation Learn the names of holidays
Lesson 6 Rooms at My Home Describe the rooms, functions
Lesson 7 I Use Chopsticks difference between Chinese and western tableware
Lesson 8 How to Go Learn to say transportation vehicles
Lesson 9 The Earth Keep the environment clean
Lesson10 Work Occupations and values

Go500
Lesson 1 My Name The different ways of naming between East and West
Lesson 2 My Classmates Learn to say different nationalities
Lesson 3 My Friends Learn the way of making friends
Lesson 4 My Favorite Book Describe the favorite book
Lesson 5 Let's Go to Market Describe Chinese dishes
Lesson 6 Who Does The Housework Understand Chinese hospitality
Lesson 7 Safety in The Kitchen Describe how to work in the kitchen
Lesson 8 My School Learn to introduce school life to new classmates
Lesson 9 Chinese New Year New Year celebration between Chinese and Americans
Lesson10 Interesting Chinese Characters The features of Chinese characters(I)

Go600
Lesson 1 Stories of Pictures Learn to describe the past
Lesson 2 My Idol Learn to describe a person, e.g. an idol
Lesson 3 Good Neighbors Learn to be a good neighbor
Lesson 4 Having a Fight Learn to describe the way people dress
Lesson 5 Campus Safety Campus safety and self-protection
Lesson 6 Which Continent Did You Come From? Learn to say the continents
Lesson 7 Yard Sale Learn to describe the issues on conservation
Lesson 8 Have Fun with Chinese Character The features of Chinese characte(II)
Lesson 9 Thankful Holidays The “gratitude-related” festivals
Lesson10 Something That Bothers Sunny Adolescence

Go700
Lesson 1 The Story of a Small Town Describe the community
Lesson 2 The History Test Describe the meaning of examination
Lesson 3 A Field Trip Things to know before the field trip
Lesson 4 The Retirement Life Personal choices and the retirement life
Lesson 5 The Exciting Election Describe election campaigns
Lesson 6 Learning from the Trip Describe pre-trip pack-up
Lesson 7 Dad Is Unemployed Face the plight with family
Lesson 8 The Exciting Olympics Sportsmanship and the importance of teamwork
Lesson 9 Confucius Describe the meaning of learning
Lesson10 The Dragon Boat Festival The three major Chinese festivals

Go800
Lesson 1 Fighting and Reconciliation Describe parent-child relationship
Lesson 2 The Death of the Rabbit Cope with the grief of pet’s death
Lesson 3 Grandma Bay Fee Down First aid knowledge
Lesson 4 Dare to Say No The art of saying no; how to refuse
Lesson 5 In Pursuit of Brand Name Express yourself and speak it up
Lesson 6 Volunteer Service Social work: as a volunteer
Lesson 7 Good Grades Or Bad Grades The opinions toward grades, schools
Lesson 8 Table Manners Table manners
Lesson 9 Ghost Festivals in East and West Halloween / Ghost Festival
Lesson10 Chinese Characters are Fun Fun Chinese characters（會意字）：休、森、
　

Registration Form

CompuChinese School Registration Form

393 Vintage Park Dr., Suite 220, Foster City
Email: compuchinese@yahoo.com Phone: 650 595-3931

Name __________________ Gender: male___ female___
Home Phone ____________ Cell Phone ______________
Email __________________ Grade __________________
Address _______________________________________
_______________________________________

How Long in Chinese school? __________________________
Class
100___ 200___ 300___ 400___ 500___ 600___ 700___800___

Language used at home
Mandarin___ Cantonese___ English___

Parent’s Name ________________ Phone ____________
Email __________________________________________

Fee: $495 for 2009-2010 School Year ( including CD-ROM )
Payment can be made by installments: 1st half on Aug. 23, and
2nd half on Jan. 4, 2010. Payable to: Belmont Chinese School

Class Schedule

CompuChinese Classes In Our Community!
2009-2010 School Year Schedule

Level 100: Mondays, 4:00-5:30
Level 200: Tuesdays, 4:00-5:30
Level 300: Wednesdays, 4:00-5:30
Level 400: Thursdays, 6:00-7:30
Level 500: Fridays, 6:00-7:30
Level 600: Mondays, 6:00-7:30
Level 700: Tuesdays: 6:00-7:30
Level 800: Wednesdays: 6:00-7:30

393 Vintage Park Dr., Suite 220,
Foster City, CA 94404 (close to Costco)
电脑学中文—— 有趣！有效！有用！
Please contact Teacher Mei for more information:
Email: compuchinese@yahoo.com
Phone: 650 595-3931

Learn Chinese via Computer

Learn Chinese via Computer

Difficult to Learn: Mandarin Chinese is officially ranked as one of the most difficult languages in the world to learn. According to the National Virtual Translation Center, Chinese is a “Category 3 Language”, ranking it with Arabic and Japanese in difficulty. The key problems are: so many characters to remember, so many tones to pronounce, and so many strokes to remember and write.

Type-to-Learn is the solution:
Using the Pinyin input, this type-to-learn method lets you actually practice, learn, and review Chinese simultaneously. Textbooks can’t do that. Type-to-Learn Chinese is the quickest way to learn new Chinese characters and put them to use in sentences. Computer pronounces characters out-loud using a Chinese speaker's voice so you can sound like a native speaker too! This is a unique approach that enhances the learner’s word recognition, listening ability and reading ability simultaneously. It can greatly inspire the students’ motivation, increase the glossary, and adapt Chinese into daily life immediately.

Computer-aided-Homework:
Computer can extend the class to your home as if you have a tutor with you. You can listen to the computer, read after the computer, talk with the computer, write following the animations. Computer can correct you when you make errors, and give you a detailed report showing the time you use, # of errors you make, what errors you make, # of characters you type/minute, accuracy, and so on. So, the parents without any Chinese background still know how their kids are doing.

The texts are based on the daily life of the ABCs. The CD has both simplified & traditional versions, and can be used in PC and Mac.

电脑学中文

电脑学中文”利用多媒体的效果以激发学习兴趣，更结合了中文的字形，字义和字音，最后再由电脑打字的机制，将其融合至学习过程中。通过拼音，在键盘输入英文字母，接着就会跳出中文字，同时读出该字的发音。若将滑鼠移至近旁，还会出现英文解释。这样动态学习，眼睛看，耳朵听，嘴巴读，手指打，脑子记，同时进行，比传统的画字要有趣味，有效率得多。
课后作业也在电脑上完成。根据困难程度，分为四个部份。如果做错，第一，二次给警告，第三次显示正确答案。完成以后，可以打印出报告，详尽列出：花了多少时间，出过多少错误，是什么错误，平均每分钟打多少字，准确率是多少，一共打了多少字，多少句子，等等。学生可以对症下药，反复练习。家长不懂中文没关系，电脑可以当老师，但家长能及时了解学生的状况。
教材用的都是频率高，生活化的生字和句型。每个生字在练习里至少出现25次。句型在以後课文里反复出现，以达到温故知新的效果。简繁版本都有，PC和MAC都能用。

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