North America Literary

The new recording is available, please login to download.

After you login, go to home page, you should see the link on the top of the front page.

Please contact me if you run into any problems.

xie4 xie.

In order to accommendate the schedule of more people, we have secured a new West Valley location, and also changed the class time to 6-7 PM.

West Valley adult Chinese language program Location is 2740 West Deer Valley Road, Phoenix, AZ, 85027. (1/4 mile west of the I-17 and Deer Valley Road exit on the north side of Deer Valley Rd.) Sundrella company building, 2nd floor conference room.

8-week session starts on March 25, class meets every Tuesday, 6-7PM.

da4 jia1 hao3! Hello everyone!

By now I hope everybody has practiced your new vocabulary "ai4" on all your family members :)

Here is the recording for lesson 2.

Also, we found a jacket in the classroom after everyone left, if it's yours, please contact us ASAP. We'll turn it in to the school tomorrow.

Like always, if you have any questions, feel free to contact us any time. You can also post your questions and comments here online.

Happy practice, see you next week.

zai4 jian4!

For those who came to the first classes this week, I can afford to use a few Chinese words. 你好! 我是 Karen. (nǐ hǎo! wǒ shì Karen) Don't worry if you can't read the characters. Pinyin will come to the rescue! If you can't even read Pinyin, here is another version: (ni3 hao3! wo3 shi4 Karen) - the numbers are used to indicate the tones.

Anyway, we had wonderful opening sessions this week for both of our training classes! The part that I enjoyed the most was that everybody seemed even more committed and excited at the end of the class than at the beginning.

I want to say a BIG thank you (谢谢 xiè xiè) to everyone who came to these first classes. You were all wonderful, and your enthusiasm for learning Chinese really showed. By being so engaged and interactive during the lesson, you helped make the class a very pleasant experience for all of us!

I'd also like to welcome any new students to come join us. Even if you did not attend one of the first class sessions, we can still make up the material relatively easily. If you wish to do this, please let us know, and we can arrange to have you come to the site 30 minutes earlier next week for a make-up lesson.

To help you practice what you learned this week at home, we have posted the audio recording for lesson 1 online. Just click here "lesson 1 audio recording", and you can review the whole lesson in the comfort of your home.

You can use this forum to post your thoughts, ideas, questions or concerns about our programs. Or about Chinese language and culture training in general.

Since this is Chinese learning web site, let me throw in some quick tips on how to enable Chinese on your PC if you haven't done so.

1. Go to your Control Panel and click on "Regional and Language Options"

2. Click the "Languages" tab and then click "Install files for East Asian languages". It will then prompt you about installing some files. Depending on your installation, it may ask you to insert your Windows XP disc. It will then ask you to reboot.

3. After rebooting, go back to Control Panel and click the "Regional Settings and Languages". Again, select the "Languages" tab. Then click the "Details" button. Then a second dialog box pops up.
Click "Add.." button. Then select the following "Chinese PRC" for the Input Language drop down box. "Select Chinese (Simplified) - QuanPin" in the Keyboard Layout/IME drop down box. Click ok a couple times to get out of the dialog boxes.

4. Now fire up your browser, you should be able to read Chinese. Can you read this now: 让我们一起学中文!If you still can't read Chinese characters, you may need to go to "View", "Encoding" to play with the encoding options.

During the week of Feb 10th, our organization was represented at the Chinese New Year celebration at the Phoenix Chinese Cultural Center. The feedback we received at this event has prompted us to work overtime to respond to the high demand for our programs. In a short period of time, we have achieved considerable progress in several areas.

March 18 Latest announcements!

For all classes, you can either register online or you can come to the class to register in person. We also give one free trial class for anyone who just wants to sit in and listen to one class.

1. West Valley adult Chinese language program Location is 2740 West Deer Valley Road, Phoenix, AZ, 85027. (1/2 mile west of the I-17 and Deer Valley Road exit on the north
side of Deer Valley Rd.)

8-week session starts on March 25, class meets every Tuesday, 6-7PM.