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Teacher: Jana Thompson

Level 1 Chinese

Level 2 Chinese

Level 3 Chinese

Level 4 Chinese

Along with these courses there is the opportunity for a summer trip to visit China. During this trip you will see different cities in the country and get to use your language skills.

If you’re interested in taking Chinese contact Ms. Thompson at

Thompsonj@bcsc.k12.in.us

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The Chinese language is one of the oldest languages which are still in use today and also one of the fastest developing languages in the world.

Chinese is heavily influenced by the development of science and technology. New terms and expressions are created frequently.

Chinese is a fairly simple language to learn. There are no genders, and no conjugation within Mandarin Chinese.

The official spoken language of China is Mandarin Chinese. This is a tonal language, which means that each word has a tone that helps you understand the meaning.

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Chinese is a language with no alphabet. The Chinese written language uses single distinctive symbols, or characters, to represent each word of the vocabulary. The vast majority of characters are written versions of spoken sounds that have meaning.

The Chinese language is the oldest written language in the world with at least six thousand years of history.

Primarily Chinese in China uses simplified characters. It is taught in Mandarin-Chinese classes internationally as well. These characters are simpler than traditional Chinese characters.

Simplified characters have existed for hundreds of years, but only became officially acceptable in formal writing after the founding of the People's Republic of China in an attempt to improve literacy among Chinese in China .

In an attempt to make the Chinese language more understandable to the western world, China developed the "pinyin" system.The pinyin system uses the western alphabet and spelling to pronounce Chinese words.

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China’s booming economy and its status as a rising global superpower. Over the last 35 years, China has transformed itself from an impoverished third world country to become the largest global economy.

Due to the lack of people in business who can speak both Chinese and English, there’s a huge demand for this language. Knowing Mandarin Chinese can lead to good jobs with high wages.

Knowing Chinese can help you make connections in the business world, as well as giving you an attractive skill to put on your resume.

Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world. If you can speak Chinese, you can communicate with nearly 1.2 billion other people on the planet.

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-Chinese Language Information

http://www.k-international.com/blog/chinese-language-information/

-EthnoMED

https://ethnomed.org/culture/chinese/chinese-language-profile

-FluentU

https://www.fluentu.com/blog/chinese/2015/08/17/why-learn-chinese/