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By Li Ling July 27, 2015

Learning Mandarin: how to read & pronounce the tones

Here’s a useful video on how to read and pronounce four of the tones in Mandarin (vid is about 1/2 hr long):

By Li Ling July 27, 2015

Learning Mandarin: how to read & pronounce pinyin

For the adults learning Mandarin, here is a one hour long, intensive vid on reading & pronouncing pinyin 🙂

By Li Ling July 26, 2015

Tuesday class map updated: Wellington Girls’ College

The map for our Tuesday class venue at Wellington Girls’ College has been updated on our Locations page, and also shown below. We’ve added symbols for where the car parking … Continue reading Tuesday class map updated: Wellington Girls’ College

By Li Ling July 26, 2015July 26, 2015

Class schedule update

The class schedule has just been updated for Term 3: Thursday 3:35pm-4:40pm Kids+Int class will not be running yet, but a wait list is open until we reach minimum numbers. Saturday … Continue reading Class schedule update

By Li Ling July 23, 2015

Kids class: remember this beat

We’ll be using this beat for one of our songs/chants in the Kids class this term 🙂

By Li Ling July 17, 2015July 17, 2015

Teaser: we’ll be singing Slippery Fish in Term 3

…in Mandarin of course! We’ve been specially translating it for our classes 🙂 We’re not releasing our Mandarin audio publicly, but here are the English versions! We’ve tried to simplify it … Continue reading Teaser: we’ll be singing Slippery Fish in Term 3

By Li Ling July 16, 2015

Row Your Boat – Blooper!

We usually reserve our song audio files for enrolled families only…but this one is a blooper 🙂 We were trying to put together something for Row Your Boat while having … Continue reading Row Your Boat – Blooper!

By Li Ling July 15, 2015

Thank you to the Community Comms Collective

A BIG thank you to Louise Lum from the Community Comms Collective group for volunteering her time and effort to assess our website usability. It’s been valuable to have her help! We’ve made a … Continue reading Thank you to the Community Comms Collective

By Li Ling July 12, 2015July 13, 2015

Enrol for Term 3 now!

Class enrolments for Term 3, 2015 are now open to everyone! Head on over to our Schedule to check what’s on and then Enrol 🙂 What classes can we offer your family? Ni … Continue reading Enrol for Term 3 now!

By Li Ling July 10, 2015

Welcome to Chien-Chi, our newest teacher!

We’d like to warmly welcome our new teacher, Chien-Chi! 🙂 Chien-Chi Lin 林千琦 Chien-Chi teaches on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Chien-Chi is originally from Taipei, Taiwan. She has spent a number of years … Continue reading Welcome to Chien-Chi, our newest teacher!

By Li Ling July 10, 2015

Term 3 enrolments

Term 3 enrolments have been privately opened up for current Term 2 families now! All Term 2 families would have received an email about this earlier this week. Online enrolment will … Continue reading Term 3 enrolments

By Li Ling July 8, 2015

Stories&Rhymes! begins tomorrow!

The first Stories&Rhymes! session will be held tomorrow 10am-10:30am at Wellington Central Library 🙂 Come along for some common English children’s songs – in Mandarin! – and a story or … Continue reading Stories&Rhymes! begins tomorrow!