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Learning Cantonese Chinese
Level 1
Dates:
September 16, 23, 30;
October 7, 14, 21, 28;
November 4, 11, 18, 25;
December 2, 9, 16, 23, 30,
2008;
January 6, 13, 20 & 27, 2009
(Twenty Sessions)
Time: 6PM - 7:30PM
Place: 25 West 43rd
Street, 10th Floor
between
5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan
Fee:
$400 (Non-Member)
| $250
(Member/Student)
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to learn
how to become a member.
Please make checks
payable to: QCAF-AAARI
Payment must be
received by mail, or in
person,
one week prior to first
day of class to ensure
registration.
Conversational Cantonese
1:
This conversational
Cantonese course is
designed to build a very
strong foundation of
vocabulary for anyone
interested in modern
colloquial Cantonese by
teaching students very
commonly used as well as
practical words,
sentence structure and
basic sentences/phrases.
Students will learn
through listening,
speaking, practicing and
studying words and
phrases. Upon completion
of this course, students
will be familiar with
over 1000 words and will
be able to create and
identify basic
sentences/phrases.
In this course, we will
be using a very
effective system to
learn Cantonese quickly
and efficiently. In
addition, general topics
of interest including
cuisine, cultural, and
historical aspects of
the Cantonese will also
be discussed.
* Conversational
Cantonese 1 is designed
for students who have
none or very little
knowledge of Cantonese.
Chinese-Cantonese
exists for over 2500
years as it is the most
widely spoken Chinese
dialect outside of
mainland China. There
are over 100 million
Cantonese speakers to
date making Cantonese
the second most spoken
Chinese language in
China and one of the top
10 most spoken languages
in the world. Cantonese
is predominantly spoken
in Hong Kong, Canton,
Macau, by the Chinese
communities in the
United States and
Chinese communities of
most other countries
outside of China.
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Instructor
Biography
Alex Ho
(何
漢
杰)
is an instructor
of Cantonese and
recruited
Cantonese,
Japanese and
Korean language
instructors for
AAARI. He
has
implemented
Cantonese
programs and
conducted
numerous
workshops in
Chinese
community
organizations
and was an
adjunct
instructor of
Cantonese at New
York University.
In addition, he
has also been a
photographer for
over four years
and a news
camera reporter
for over a year.
He received his
M.A. in Urban
Affairs from
Queens College
and his B.A.
from John Jay
College of
Criminal
Justice.
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