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.

The course uses the textbook "Yang Yang Chinese" (Reading Edition, Volume 2) and the latest Chinese teaching concepts and methods. The course content combines Chinese language learning with the introduction of Chinese culture. It uses a learning model that combines paper textbooks with Internet interactive courses to comprehensively improve the comprehensive Chinese "listening, speaking, reading and writing" abilities.

Course structure: The course adopts a combination of "children's songs + reading passages". Children's songs can help students appreciate the rhythmic beauty of Chinese and can be easily recited. They can not only train their sense of language, but also learn the words and sentences of this lesson. Word recognition adopts a learning model that combines "words-words-pictures". The meaning of words can be understood from the pictures, and new words can be recognized in the words, making word recognition simple, easy to learn, and vivid and interesting. The reading passages are composed of the words and sentences that have been learned, so as to achieve the effect of reviewing words and sentences, realize barrier-free reading, and enhance confidence in learning Chinese.