• 2012 Spring Individual Culture Class is scheduled on 03/17. These classes are designed for students to explore Chinese culture related activities. School has prepared three different individual culture classes for three different age group students in Spring of 2012. Please view following schedule for detail: Date: 03 /17 /2012

  節目(Program)	教師(Instructor)	Session I 1:30pm	Session II 2:30pm	Room #
  童玩Traditional Chinese game	方國展Casey Fang	C1 to C5	CC1 to CC4	E360
  國樂飄香Chinese Music 古箏GuZheng	常筱峥Jennifer Chang	C6 to C10, PC11	CC6 to CC8, CV0 to CV2	S306
  布袋戲Chinese Finger Puppet Show	黃光榮Michael Huang and 張志任Chih-Jen Chang	K1 to K3	CCP to CCK	E150 and S102

• 2012 Spring After School Tutoring Program starts from 02/11 at 3:40pm in room S306 (Administration building). It will be a modified program which is different with the one that we had in Fall of 2011. It combines both education and entertainment to motivate participants to learn Chinese. This program is designed for all students (including children and adults) and families in school. Welcomes everyone to join and have fun to learn Chinese together. Please view the schedule as following: Class room: S306 Time: 3:40pm
  • 02/11, Animation movie: serve with popcorn and water
  • 02/18, Story telling by RCLS librarian
  • 03/03, Animation movie: serve with popcorn and water
  • 03/10, Story telling by RCLS librarian
  • 03/17, Tutoring (Prepare for Word/Phrase Recognition Contest and Certification)
  • 04/07, Tutoring (Prepare for Word/Phrase Recognition Contest and Certification)
  • 04/14, Animation Movie: serve with popcorn and water - the last day of After School Tutoring Program

• YouTube video of the interview of teacher Jenwei Kuo about new method of teaching Chinese by WRAZ

• November 2011 school Newsletter is posted in the Newsletters section.

• 2011 sequencing story telling contest result is posed in the Contests, etc section.

• CV0 teacher Jenwei Kuo was interviewed by WRAL reporter Kelcey Carlson about his new method for learning Chinese. Please see the interview clip at wral.com.

• There will be an "After School Tutoring Program" starts from 9/24 at 3:30pm to 4:00pm in room S306 (Administration building). This program provides a casual and informal environment for CC track students/parents and CV track adults to review and reinforce Chinese they have learned in language classes. In this program, students also practices Chinese greeting and some useful daily Chinese conversation. Welcome to stop-by and have chat by using Chinese. This program will run by several volunteers who speak Chinese fluently. If you can help and be a tutor in this program, please contact Academic Affair at academic_affairs@ncrcls.org. Please mark your calendar that there are 8 tutoring dates, 9/24, 10/01, 10/29, 11/12, 11/19, 12/03, 12/10 and 12/17. Look forward to seeing you on 9/24 at 3:30pm in S306.

• In the event of any severe weather or emergency situation, students and parents are reminded to check the following communication channels for information regarding cancellation of Raleigh Chinese Language School (RCLS) classes:
  • Raleigh Chinese Language School website: http://www.ncrcls.org or Forest Hills Baptist Church website: http://www.foresthills.org
  • TV stations: WRAL (Channel 5)
  • If time permit, the school will notify you of the cancellation of the class with e-mail or phone calls from the teacher or parent representative of each class
  • When you are not able to get the information from any of the above channel, you may call the principal, the vice principal, the dean of student affair or the dean of academic affair
  • If the Forest Hills Baptist Church announced on any channel that all the Saturday activities are canceled, there will be no class for RCLS on that day

• We will host a new student orientation for the fall semester on August 20, 2011. The meeting will be held at 1:30 pm at Forest Hill Baptist Church in Raleigh. Students who enrolled in our program for the first time are encouraged to attend. For those families who want to learn more about RCLS, we will have a discussion section to answer questions about curriculum and registration process.

• In order to provide various of Chinese reading materials, former RCLS Principal Yulan Chung had set up a web site Native Language Garden web site with links provided by publishers in Taiwan, Culture and Education Foundation, as well as Children's Culture library of Executive Yuan. These links to the books are well suited for students to use at home or use as summer home work. Most importantly, it's free. Please take this opportunity to check out these web links per your leisure.

•   RCLS is now offering an Off-Site Language Program for businesses, schools, or any organization that requires professional Chinese language training and cultural orientation. Program is tailored to the need of each client and can take place at client’s location. Email outreach@ncrcls.org for more information.

•   Remember to re-link Harris Teeter VIC card for RCLS (#4101) for school year 2009 - 2010. See PTA for more information.

• Interested in being a RCLS teacher or substitute teacher?? Please contact principal@ncrcls.org

•   Testimonials - Adult Conversation (CV0)

Heather Wilson, Ph.D., Research Associate/Duke University, Durham, NC
This was a tremendous first course in Mandarin Chinese.  It boosted my confidence and gave me the necessary tools to begin learning a difficult language.  The system Mr. Kuo has created was specifically developed for students who think and speak in English.  He has used his thorough understanding of both languages to develop materials that can help a native English speaker quickly learn to speak Chinese.  As I continue my studies, the lessons learned from this book have formed a firm foundation on which to build my understanding of Mandarin.  I am so glad I began my Chinese studies with this method!

Dan Bantukul, Director of Product Marketing, Tekelec Inc., RTP, NC
Since our company has been doing business in China, I have been trying to learn Chinese conversation in order to communicate with my Chinese counterparts.  However, I found that the conventional methods that are based on memorization do not work well since it does not provide systematic insight into the sentence structures and language fundamentals.  I tend to quickly forget what I have learned.  Through comparison to English sentence structure, the JWK method provides a quick and practical way to apply knowledge of English language in formulating Chinese sentences.  The JWK teaches you “how to fish” rather than “fish it for you”.  I found that after one year of JWK method, I can use the knowledge to construct a new Chinese sentence without having to memorize the sentence before hand.  I highly recommend the JWK method to anyone who wants to quickly learn Chinese conversation but also wants to retain what they have learned.

• Special Letter (CSL 5)- This is Rebekah Harter all the way in Hawaii. I just wanted you all to know that I went to the university last week to take a chinese placement exam. Anyways I ended up getting into Chinese 201 at the University. (201 means I will be in the first semester sophmore year class) I want to thank all of you again for your support.