Language
As part of its international focus, the Asian Pacific Institute is looking to offer over the coming year various language courses for individuals looking to travel or do business abroad. We are pleased to begin this effort with "Mandarin in Nine Days" (see below for details).
If you have suggestions for a course or are interested in teaching a course, please contact us at international@jfku.edu.
Mandarin in Nine Days
Always wanted to learn to speak Chinese, but thought it was just too hard? Well, here's your chance. The Asian Pacific Institute at John F. Kennedy University is bringing
the Mandarin in 9 Days course to Pleasant Hill.
Using the same methods that she developed for her successful English in 9 Days program in China, Professor Sheree Lin will have you speaking conversational Mandarin in just 9 class meetings, and enjoying every minute of this fast-paced, course!
Harnessing each student's "human power," Mandarin in 9 Days begins with an orientation session during which each student creates a personal Mandarin learning plan that
takes advantage of the student's individual learning abilities and strengths. Students spend the next 9 weekly classes learning Mandarin through focused exercises that use a variety of audio and visual aids and can include music, art, or even dance activities.
Mandarin in 9 Days
Monday evenings beginning on March 9, 2009
6:00 - 9:00 pm
JFK University's Pleasant Hill campus
100 Ellinwood Way
Course Fee: $425
Early Registration 10% Discount: Register by Monday, February 23 and pay $382. Click here to download a course registration form. For more information: Contact Susan Sermeno (ssermeno@jfku.edu) at the Asian Pacific Institute.
About the Instructor
Professor Sheree Lin, a native of Shandong Province, China, and Taiwan, is a fully tenured professor and former chairperson of the Foreign Languages Department at Diablo Valley College. Ms. Lin has written teaching materials for and taught traditional and classical Chinese language, literature, and culture for the past thirty years at universities and colleges in both Taiwan and the United States. Besides being an accomplished public speaker, she is a former reporter for the widely distributed World Journal Chinese language newspaper. Ms. Lin has a fertile background in the arts as a published play writer, novelist, and author of children's books, for which she has received numerous awards, and as the creator of a cable television instructional program in the Mandarin language for CSUEB, Hayward.
Mandarin in Nine Days
Always wanted to learn to speak Chinese, but thought it was just too hard? Well, here's your chance. The Asian Pacific Institute at John F. Kennedy University is bringing
the Mandarin in 9 Days course to Pleasant Hill.
Using the same methods that she developed for her successful English in 9 Days program in China, Professor Sheree Lin will have you speaking conversational Mandarin in just 9 class meetings, and enjoying every minute of this fast-paced, course!
Harnessing each student's "human power," Mandarin in 9 Days begins with an orientation session during which each student creates a personal Mandarin learning plan that
takes advantage of the student's individual learning abilities and strengths. Students spend the next 9 weekly classes learning Mandarin through focused exercises that use a variety of audio and visual aids and can include music, art, or even dance activities.
Mandarin in 9 Days
Monday evenings beginning on March 9, 2009
6:00 - 9:00 pm
JFK University's Pleasant Hill campus
100 Ellinwood Way
Course Fee: $425
Early Registration 10% Discount: Register by Monday, February 23 and pay $382. Click here to download a course registration form. For more information: Contact Susan Sermeno (ssermeno@jfku.edu) at the Asian Pacific Institute.
About the Instructor
Professor Sheree Lin, a native of Shandong Province, China, and Taiwan, is a fully tenured professor and former chairperson of the Foreign Languages Department at Diablo Valley College. Ms. Lin has written teaching materials for and taught traditional and classical Chinese language, literature, and culture for the past thirty years at universities and colleges in both Taiwan and the United States. Besides being an accomplished public speaker, she is a former reporter for the widely distributed World Journal Chinese language newspaper. Ms. Lin has a fertile background in the arts as a published play writer, novelist, and author of children's books, for which she has received numerous awards, and as the creator of a cable television instructional program in the Mandarin language for CSUEB, Hayward.