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What's New!
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Mei Mei's End-of-Summer Update:
Dear Parents and Students,
I hope you all are enjoying the summer vacation and having a wonderful time with your families and friends! As the school year is approaching, you and your children must be anticipating the school year with excitement. I wanted to wish you all happiness and a successful year to come!
I am very pleased to be able to inform you that I returned to the US from China early this month having completed the filming of my ninth video in the Play & Learn Chinese series: Dance Again with Mei Mei. It is with great relief that I finished filming this project, since so many parents have requested of me that I do another dance video “like Volume 4.” I have had so many of you tell me that your children preferred it to the others, and enjoyed emulating the girls dancing on the screen. I am sure that your children will like this video as much as our first dance video. We plan to have it available before the Chinese New Year (if not sooner). I will certainly let you know when the final editing and production are finished.
I also wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for all your support and enthusiasm for what I have devoted my time and energy to for all these years! I am learning so much by working with children to help them more easily learn Chinese language and culture. Please feel free to contact me if I can be of any help to you. I also welcome any suggestions you may have; they have always been extremely helpful in guiding me.
For children and their families in New England, I look forward to seeing you at our many Chinese New Year parties. For my students and families, I can’t wait to see you again for the fall session beginning on the second weekend of September.
Enjoy the rest of the summer!
Mei Mei Hu
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Language Classes: Play & Learn CHINESE with Mei Mei
Please click on the following link in order to print or download a registration form:
Registration Form
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Fall 2010 Cultural Classes Schedule:
Saturdays: 10:45 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Saturdays: 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
September 11 November 6
September 25 November 20
October 9 December 4
October 23 December 18
January 8
Sundays: 10:45 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Sundays: 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
September 12 November 7
September 26 November 21
October 10 December 5
October 24
December 19
January 9
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All classes are taught at Mei Mei's location in North Providence, RI. For more
information please call: (401) 723-4440 or e-mail us.
Play & Learn CHINESE with Mei Mei Vol.8
Let’s Visit Huangshan Mountain with Mei Mei
Mei Mei’s eighth video presents the natural beauty of Huangshan, China’s “Yellow Mountain,” a region in southern Anhui province in eastern China comprised of more than 70 peaks.
Visited by hundreds of people every day, Huangshan Mountain is known for its stunning sights: a wondrous sea of magical clouds
that form amidst its peaks, peculiar rock formations that jut through the clouds, odd pine trees that grow from granite crevices where seeds have fallen, tall waterfalls that cascade like silk, and hot springs that bubble with healing power.
Join Mei Mei as she travels through one of the most beautiful, famous, and popular areas of China. Share with her the bountiful culture of nearby city and village life. See how adults and children merge the old and the new as they work, study and play in one of the most traditional sites of China's heartland.
- A great resource for teachers and libraries!
Contents: • Welcome to Huangshan • Tunxi Ancient Street • Four Seasons • Hongcun Village • Children of Huangshan
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“Let’s Visit Huangshan Mountain” is a well designed and carefully edited education film for people of all ages – anyone who is interested in Chinese language and culture would find it enjoyable to watch.”
— Hong Yang, Ph.D., Director of US-China Institute and Confucius Institute, Bryant University
“This excellent video series is highly recommended.” — Video Librarian
DVD Running time: 30 minutes. For children of all ages. Copyright © 2009
Let’s Write Chinese with Mei Mei
This special set of two workbooks is intended as a first guide to writing characters for everyone. It is meant to be user-friendly (especially for younger children), with large characters to copy and imitate. These workbooks will be a great help to any student of Chinese in any setting, from the weekly class to the fun of just practicing at home! The first volume presents the most common nouns, verbs, and adjectives selected by Mei Mei to be the most practical. The second volume builds on the first by combining previously learned characters to form new expressions.
Features include:
• The Table of Contents lists all the most common words and/or phrases. Simplified characters with stroke orders, Pinyin, and English translations.
• Each workbook contains 176 "daily use" words or phrases.
• The character blocks are of a large comfortable size - plenty of room for small hands to practice.
• A perfect activity for parents to share with their child - educational activity that rises to the level of art with practice.
• Learning all of these characters will easily enable students to combine and recombine words and phrases into hundreds of new complete sentences in order to express their own thoughts and feelings.
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DOWNLOADS:
Download Free Work Sheets from the Videos for home study! Go now to our Resources page and download these great educational aids for use with your own children or students. They are the same ones Mei Mei uses with her students and will work hand in hand with the video to give children (and parents) lots of characters for reading and writing practice!
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