Chinese Schools in NY, NJ & CT
There are 9 Hua Xia Chinese Schools in NY/ NJ for a comprehensive list click below Homepage: http://www.hxcs.org School List: http://www.hxcs.org/HX_Branches/gaikuang.htm (The second column is the address of the school and the third is the mailing address)
New York (纽约) ABC Language Exchange 135 West 29th Street, Suite #1204 New York, NY 10001 Phone: (212) 431-9101 Email: info@abclang.com Website: http://www.abclang.com ABC Language Exchange was founded in 1997 in Manhattan, New York with the mission to provide the highest quality language training for individuals and businesses. Group lessons are a fun way to learn. ABC limits their class size to only 8 students per class so you may get as much chance to use your second language in class as possible. Private lessons offer the greatest flexibility for your busy schedule. You may schedule classes for any time of day or evening and any day of the week (including Sundays). Corporate Training is ABC's specialty. ABC sends its qualified teachers to your company to implement a language program designed specifically to meet your needs, including materials related to your field of business.
Albany Chinese School at Shaker Junior High 475 Watervliet-Shaker Road Latham, NY 12110 http://www.albanychineseschool.org/
China Institute 125 East 65th Street, New York, NY 10021 - 7088 For registration and information please call (212) 744-8181 children's classes call Melissa Buyum at x 141, for adult classes, call Joseph Corda at x 145. or - click here - www.chinainstitute.org
ESTABLISHED in 1926, China Institute is a nonprofit, non-partisan educational and cultural institution that promotes the understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of traditional and contemporary Chinese civilization, culture and heritage, and provides the cultural and historical context for understanding contemporary China. We carry out our mission through classroom teaching and seminars, art exhibitions, public programs for children and adults, teacher education and curriculum development, lectures and symposia and business programming. China Institute is represented in CLTA-GNY membership.
The Chinese Art and Cultural Center 34 West 14th Street, 4th floor New York, NY 10011 caccny@yahoo.com Tel:(212) 352-0003 All Classes on Saturday. This nonprofit, cultural and educational organization has programs for children 5-12 and adults in Beginner's Chinese Language Classes in Mandarin, The Art of Kung Fu, Traditional Tai Chi Chuan for Beginners and Chinese Painting for Beginners. All programs are instructed by experienced teachers. The Chinese Art and Cultural Center is represented in CLTA-GNY membership.
The Chinese School of Southern Westchester has been in existence for 21 years. Located on the beautiful campus of Edgemont High School in Hartsdale, we meet on Saturdays from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM, offering Mandarin and Chinese culture classes (Gung Fu, Chinese dance, origami, Chinese chess, Chinese harp, brush painting, Tai Chi, chorus) to children and adults, from pre-K through high school and beyond! While our families and teachers are a wonderful mix of cultures, with a majority of families of Chinese heritage, we also offer modified classes for children of non-Mandarin speaking families. Our school year consists of two 15-week semesters (30 classes), and the tuition for the year is $425 for children and $210 per parent for each course. For more information please contact Laurie Rigelhaupt at Sylvieetal@aol.com or (914)285-9834, or click here for website - www.csswny.org The Chinese School of Southern Westchester is represented in CLTA-GNY membership.
DHCCA at Half Hollow Hills High School West 375 Wolf Hill Road, Dix Hills, NY 11746 http://www.dhcca.org/ Contact: Wcai@optonline.net
New York Ming Yuan Chinese School A.Queens: 54-17 90th Street, Elmhurst, NY 11373 Tel. (718) 271-3944 B.Brooklyn: 6201 8th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11220 Tel. (718) 439-3656 http://www.angelfire.com/ny/csjb/mingyuan.html
Northern Westchester Chinese School P.O. BOX 52, YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, NY 10598 Website: www.nynwcs.org Northern Westchester Chinese School offers a wide range of programs. Younger children are encouraged to attend pre-kindergarten and kindergarten programs. The school is announcing an exciting new program designed for familieswith adopted children from China. This program will consist of three levels, beginning, intermediate, and advanced. Our teacher, Ms Pei-Ling Liu, is an experienced Chinese school teacher with a background in Education from Teacher's College. She has designed a program for beginners with an emphasis on the spoken word and conversation. Phonics will also be explored. Children ages 6 through 8, accompanied by parent(s), will learn Chinese language and culture through songs, games, craft, poems, and stories. This class will be held in Somers Middle School, starting Saturday morning, 9/13/2003 through 6/19/2004 from 9 to 11. Tuition for a school year is $550 for a child and an accompanying parent. Please register early as class size is limited to 10 children. Registration forms can be downloaded from the school website (http://www.nynwcs.org/forms/RegistrationForm2003.pdf). Please send the form to Ms Shu-Chin Chung, 125 Lake Street, Apt. 12AN, White Plains, NY 10604.For questions, please contact Principal Juliet Candee at principal@nynwcs.org
The Plainview Chinese School The Plainview Chinese School is donated by the Charles B. Wang Foundation. The aim of the Chinese School is to teach Chinese language and culture to American born Chinese youngsters and to children from non-Chinese speaking families. We will also provide Chinese language and cultural classes for adults. The emphasis of the language curriculum of our school is oral proficiency, balanced with reading/writing. The ultimate goal is to ensure that children enjoy learning Chinese language and culture, and to provide them with fond memories of Chinese language school. The language programs teaches Chinese in both simplified and traditional forms in three teaching venues: ·Bilingual Chinese Teaching Method: teaching Chinese as a second language to non-Chinese speaking families using Pinyin and Traditional Chinese Characters. ·Simplified Chinese Teaching Method: teaching Simplified Chinese characters using Pinyin as taught in Mainland China. ·Traditional Chinese Teaching Method: teaching Chinese with Zhuyin, or Bopomofo, in Traditional Chinese Characters as was maintained in Taiwan. The cultural programs includes classes for both Children and adult in Martial Arts, Kungfu, Chinese Painting, Chinese Calligraphy, Chinese Dances, Origami, Arts and Crafts, Singing, Chinese Instruments and Music, Karaoke, Chinese Yo-Yo, Ping Pong, aerobics, Chi, Taichi, computer and beginning/intermediate Chinese for Adults. Mailing Address: Plainview Chinese School 1535 Old Country Road Plainview, New York 11803 Phone: 516-753-5616 Fax: 516-753-5617 Email: Plainview@lipvcs.org
Red Apple Preschool 25 Market Street New York, NY 10002 (212) 577-2710 http://www.redapplepreschool.com/
Staten Island Chinese School Mailing Address: P.O. Box #492, Staten Island, NY 10309 School Address: 33 Ferndale Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10314 Tel: (718)938-1489 Email: sichinese@hotmail.com Website: http://www.sichinese.org
For more than 30 years, the Staten Island Chinese School has been providing an opportunity for children to learn one of the most commonly peaking languages in the world. The school is based on 2 dialects separated by the Mandarin and Cantonese classes for your choice. We use textbooks and educational materials from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mainland China to keep up with the Chinese language standard in America. The original (tradition) Chinese characters will be taught in classes, but some classes will also introduce the simplified characters as well. In the Mandarin classes, Pin-Yin (the pronunciation system from mainland China) will be used for students to be prepared for the SAT II Chinese Language Exam. Special events such as Chinese New Year celebration and speech contest will be held during school year, in order to increase students? learning interest. Classes start at 10am - 12pm every Saturday. An hour of after school activity will be given after class from 12-1pm.?Students can choose from a variety of activities such as penmanship, chess, kung fu, dancing, arts & crafts, basketball etc to play in groups and learn Chinese culture as well. Beside that, we also provide classes and activities for parents to consume their time during school hours. Staten Island Chinese School is located at 33 Ferndale Ave, Staten Island, NY 10314 (I.S. 72), just minutes away from the Staten Island Shopping Mall. Staten Island Chinese School is represented in CLTA-GNY membership
New Jersey (新泽西) For a comprehensive list of Chinese Schools in NJ (click below) http://www.njccsf.org/ChineseSchoolsNJ.htm
EverBright Chinese School Edison, New Jersey (on the premises of Thomas Jefferson Middle School) at 450 Division Street off Route 27. Dr. Steven Zhang (732-910-5180) or yucaichinese@yahoo.com. http://www.everbright.org
Founded as a not-for-profit educational organization, EverBright Chinese School accepts students of any ages, from any cultural and ethnic backgrounds. The mission of EverBright Chinese School is to teach the Standard Chinese language (pinyin and simplified Chinese characters) and promote Chinese culture. The School meets on Saturdays 9:30 am - 12:30 pm and offers Chinese classes at various levels:
1. Pre-school Chinese sing-a-long (ge-yao); 2. Pre-school pinyin, verse reading, and story telling; 3. CSL-Chinese as second language (for students with no or minimum background of Chinese speaking). 4. Standard Chinese, Books 1-12; and 5. Chinese head-start classes (designed by Dr. Ma Liping at Stanford University).
EverBright Chinese School also offers many culture classes: 1. dancing;2. vocal arts;3. painting and drawing;4. musical instruments (e.g., violin). 5. martial arts (e.g., karate and tai-ji boxing);6. chess and GO (weiqi);7. zhong-guo. jie (handicraft art);8. fun math;9. hua-ju (Chinese play); and10. mu-ou (puppet show).
While students are taking classes (9:30 am - 12:20 pm), the School arranges all kinds of activities for adult family members: e.g., seminars on different topics almost on weekly basis; soccer in the huge field behind the facility; basketball in the gym; and fitness sessions (for women and for men).
Ying Hua Language School P.O. Box 3004, Princeton, NJ 08543-3004 Contact: 609.530.0399 (775.262.7968 fax) Email: info@yinghua.org Web: www.yinghua.org Principal: Dr. Bonnie Liao
FOUNDED in May 2002, YingHua Language School is a nonprofit Chinese language and culture school for children in grades K-12. YingHua is fully committed to teaching the Chinese language to children of ALL backgrounds. It offers two tracks: CSL (Chinese as Second Language) Track for the non-Chinese-speaking children and CHL (Chinese as Heritage Language) Track for Chinese-speaking children. Our CSL track teaches Chinese in English to students 5 years old and up who can only understand classroom instructions in English. Our CHL track teaches Chinese in Chinese (Mandarine) to students 5 years old and up who have basic knowledge of simple grammar and proficiency. It operates on Sunday afternoons at Lawrence Middle School, 2455 Princeton Pike, Lawrenceville, NJ. Currently it is the only school in New Jersey that has fully adopted Dr. Liping Ma's "Direct Character Recognition" methodology. We teach the "modern" or simplified Chinese characters and introduce the Chinese phonetic system (PinYin) as a tool at the appropriate stage. YingHua Language School is represented in CLTA-GNY membership.
Connecticut (康州) Chinese Language School of Connecticut Phone or Fax: (866) 301-4906 PO Box 515, Riverside, CT 06878-0515 Website: www.ChineseLanguageSchool.org Email: info@ChineseLanguageSchool.org Principal: Principal@ChineseLanguageSchool.org
The Chinese Language School of Connecticut, Inc. is a not-for-profit educational organization registered with the State of Connecticut. It does not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, nationality, religion or physical conditions. Mission The Chinese Language School of Connecticut teaches Mandarin Chinese as a second language to children. Our activity-based curriculum enables students to acquire practical communication skills, develop competence and confidence, and experiencethe joy of learning another language.Through early exposure to Chinese, the school seeks to provide students with a foundation for future learning and cultivate their long-term interest in the language, culture and traditions of China. Approach a.. Our units of study on activities related to daily life are age-appropriate, practical and relevant. b.. Native speaking teachers combine discussion-based classroom instruction with experiential activities to engage students. c.. Enrichment units on culture, history and traditions supplement language instruction. d.. CLSC seeks to create an environment where students enjoy the process of learning. School operation: September to May, 30 weeks, Sunday afternoons
Basic class structure: Pre-school/Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced/SATII Prep Course/Adult classes Core language courses & workshops: 2:15 - 4:30 PM Cultural Enrichment classes & clubs: 1:30 - 2:15 or 4:30 - 5:30PM
Kumon Math and Reading Center 351 Whitney Ave. New Haven, CT 06511 Tel: 203-782-9449 Email: newhaven_kumon@yahoo.com http://www.kumon.com/