Classes Offered

Currently, MCS offers Mandarin Chinese classes at seven different levels. These classes are:

Kindergarton: This class admits children at age as young as four-year-old. Students will learn about Chinese Pinyin (phonics) system. Also, students will learn  one hundred elemental Chinese characters in order to establish knowledge base for future study of the rest of the Chinese character set that mostly are built on top of the elemental character set. 
1st Grade: This class admits students who have successfully finished learning Pinyin system and are able to read some elementatal characters. Students will be taught using volume 1 and 2 of textbook series Zhongwen (Chinese).
2nd Grade: This class admits students who have successfully finished volume 1 and 2 of textbook series Zhongwen (Chinese).  Students will be taught using volume 3 and 4 of textbook series Zhongwen (Chinese).
3rd Grade: This class admits students who have successfully finished volume 3 and 4 of textbook series Zhongwen (Chinese).  Students will be taught using volume 5 and 6 of textbook series Zhongwen (Chinese).
4th Grade: This class admits students who have successfully finished volume 5 and 6 of textbook series Zhongwen (Chinese).  Students will be taught using volume 7 and 8 of textbook series Zhongwen (Chinese).
5th Grade:   This class admits students who have successfully finishes volume 7 and 8 of textbook series Zhongwen (Chinese).  Students will be taught using volume 9 and 10 of textbook series Zhongwen (Chinese).
6th Grade:   This class admits students who have successfully finished volume 9 and 10 of textbook series Zhongwen (Chinese).  Students will be taught using volume 11 and 12 of textbook series Zhongwen (Chinese).