Course Categories

Kindergarten Introduction

Pre-Kindergarten

Learning Objectives

  • Foster children’s interest in the Chinese language through a variety of engaging classroom activities, while helping them adapt to the classroom environment and understand basic behavioral expectations.
  • Recognize and read foundational Chinese characters and vocabulary, and recite familiar children’s rhymes and songs in Chinese.
  • Use simple Chinese greetings, introduce themselves, and apply basic polite expressions in daily interactions.
  • Communicate basic concepts such as time, date, numbers, weather, colors, animals, food, and common actions or behaviors.
  • Ask and respond to simple questions in Chinese using age-appropriate sentence patterns.

The textbook for this course is an introductory course for overseas learners that combines interactive online instruction with the printed textbook Yang Yang Chinese – Reading Edition, Book 1, offering a well-rounded online and offline learning experience. The course places strong emphasis on character recognition and reading skills. By memorizing lively rhymes and children’s chants, students begin to internalize the rhythm and structure of the Chinese language. They gradually learn to understand the meanings of words and sentences, building a solid foundation in key language elements essential for further learning.

Course Structure: Each lesson combines dialogues, classroom activities, children’s songs, and after-class practice, supported by both a workbook and online exercises for reinforcement. Activity Design: Students learn through a variety of engaging methods, including dialogue practice, reading, games, songs, gestures, tongue twisters, crafts, and cultural appreciation activities that introduce key aspects of Chinese traditions.

Kindergarten

Learning objectives:

  • Continues to nurture students’ interest in learning Chinese while expanding their vocabulary to 205 words and characters. Students will also learn 12 rhymes and children’s songs and read 10 short stories.
  • Study everyday expressions such as greetings, time, location, weather, the four seasons, food and dining, shopping, hobbies and abilities, as well as common school-related situations. Through these themes, students strengthen their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills while building confidence in daily communication.

This course uses Yang Yang Chinese – Reading Edition, Book 2 and is guided by modern teaching philosophies and methodologies in Chinese language education. This course offers a blended learning experience by combining the printed textbook with interactive online instruction. It emphasizes balanced development in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, while promoting a student-centered, immersive learning environment. Cultural elements—such as folktales, rhymes, festivals, and real-life topics—are intentionally integrated to make the learning process more meaningful and engaging. Through this approach, students not only acquire language skills but also develop a deeper appreciation for Chinese culture.

Course Structure: this program follows a combined model that integrates children’s rhymes with short reading passages. Through rhymes, students experience the rhythmic beauty of the Chinese language and can easily memorize content, which helps cultivate language intuition while reinforcing characters, words, and sentence patterns introduced in each lesson. For vocabulary development and character recognition, the course adopts a “character–word–picture” approach, allowing students to connect images with word meanings and to recognize characters in meaningful contexts. This method makes reading and character acquisition more intuitive, vivid, and engaging. The short reading passages are composed entirely of vocabulary and sentence structures students have already learned. This scaffolded design strengthens retention, ensures a smooth reading experience free of unfamiliar terms, and boosts students’ confidence as they grow more fluent in Chinese.