DJH Mandarin Summer Camp

DJH Chinese Courses is organizing a 7-day Mandarin Summer Camp for students 8 to 15 years old in early July. This camp is for students with zero to basic Mandarin knowledge. It is a non-stay-in camp consists of 4 days of basic Mandarin lessons and 3 days of out-of-classroom activities that reinforce what they have learned in class and allow them to know more about Singapore, the country they are living in. We will be visiting places like teahouse, Chinese restaurants, China Town, Temples, local Chinese heritage, museum, orchid garden and the zoo!

Camp info
Dates: 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th 10th July 2009
Classroom venue: 20 Maxwell Road, Maxwell House
Cost: $1080 per student
Registration: before 28th June 2009

Please send the following to enquiries@djhchinese.com for registration.
Name:
Contact number:
email address:
Age:
Gender:
Years learning Mandarin:

For more detail please download the programme here.


Chinese Heritage Tour


Flora & Fauna


Discovering Singapore

Website review: nciku

http://www.nciku.com

I have come across this website from China that I think it is pretty useful in learning Mandarin for foreigners. There are short, simple conversations with pinyin, the English translation, the Chinese characters and most importantly the audio.

There are many materials on different topics and themes. I am sure you can find something useful for your daily life like taking the taxi, ordering meals, or something more specific such as a business trip to China and other more sophisticated discussions in Mandarin. It covers quite a bit of Chinese culture and society as well.

Enjoy.

Cheuk

Media Corp Variety Show ~ "It's a small world" 国记交意所

Starting 26th May, every Tuesday 8pm, Channel 8

Recently Channel 8 of Media Corps has launch a new and interesting variety show: "It's a small world" 国记交意所 in Chinese. The show is in a classroom setting where the participants are Mandarin speaking foreigners who act as students. They exchange their opinions and experiences that they had in different countries. They discuss on topics such as fashion, art and music, geography, policies, traditional practices, social phenomenons and such. It is amazing to see foreigners speaking such fluent Mandarin. We hope students of DJH Chinese Courses will find it as a motivation in learning Mandarin as well while enjoying the show.



新加坡快变成环球都市！

李光耀资政说, 理想目标是60％新加坡出生公民, 40％外来移民。

目前和将来都有很多来自不同国家的人到新加坡读书、工作、长期居留.
各国语言和文化背景的差异产生不少有趣经验.

好笑逗趣的TALK SHOW交流, 让观众更理解外国情形, 让外籍人士更了解新加坡, 观众也可以从外国人的角度看新加坡.

节目将以一所“国际课室”包装. 李国煌是讲师, 还会有2位逗趣助教, 随时帮忙演戏, 示范. 上课的是8到10 位原自不同国籍的同学! 他们会听, 会说40%-50%华语, 他们都来到“交意所”来上课.


Singapore is fast evolving into a metropolis.

MM Lee once said, the ideal target is a mixture of 60% homegrown talent and 40% foreign talent. Be it now or the future, there are many foreigners from different countries and backgrounds residing in Singapore for studies or work. Various countries’ languages and culture differences mean there will be many interesting experiences to be shared.
Through a light-hearted and humorous Talk Show, we showcase the differences in culture between foreigners and Singaporeans.

Mark Lee is a lecturer in an International Classroom and will have two humorous assistants to help out in sketches, demonstrations of ideas.