LEARNING ONLINE / OTHER SUBJECTS
We believe every subject has its own language. Music, math, law, and any other subjects you can name. During our past few years of operation, we have added the following courses due to demand. If any of the courses interest you, please let us know.
Math Lessons in Chinese
China is the only nation that has achieved an all-members-gold International Math Olympiad multiple times (9 times in total, including years 1992, 1993, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2009)*wikipedia.org . We tutor K-12 student math in Chinese so students can get the feel of how rigorous the curriculum are or easy it is to do math in Chinese (the language is more easy for kids to learn math in than English since Chinese way of speaking the numbers are way shorter than in English)*Outliers (Chapter 8, book by Malcolm Gladwell).
Math Lessons in English
Nobody can prosper in this century without being educated. Math is the foundation for all the technology we are adopting in our daily life and its significance cannot be stressed even more. We offer math tutoring classes for K-12 students and college students also so they can master the skill needed to advance. The lessons can be tutoring, which is working with students’ own textbook and homework or extra practices and instruction, which we will provide you with additional textbook and practice sheets.
Chinese Calligraphy (四藝：琴、棋、書、畫四種技藝也)
The “four arts”(si yi) can also be called the “four leisure time pleasures”. However, these seem to be rather late expressions (Ming dynasty), and neither is as common as the expression “qin qi shu hua“, which names them: qin-chess-calligraphy-painting. Qin qi shu hua is also apparently a quite ancient Chinese expression, with references dating from the Tang dynasty, while the earliest reference for si yi is the following quote from Sketches of Idle Pleasures (Xianqing Ouji) by Li Yu (1611-1680), who was known as an advocate of education for women, “In order for young maidens to have self-confidence their activities should often include the four arts: qin, chess, painting and calligraphy.” Over the past few hundred years, si yi had become a sign of a well educated gentleman.
Calligraphy is one of the four arts, which has its artistically appealing as visual art, and its content, literally are language art in its own writes be it a poem or a short paragraph.
We teach beginning, intermediate and advanced level of calligraphy to students globally.
Chinese Water Painting
Painting is another category in the four arts. China has a long tradition of fine painting, dating as far back as the Neolithic period. By the Tang dynasty (618-907), exquisite and delicate watercolors featuring noble ladies and court life were produced. The tradition of Chinese painting continued to flourish as Imperial Art Academies were created. Subjects of traditional Chinese painting include beautiful women, birds, flowers and landscapes. Watercolor and ink are the most common materials used in Chinese painting until late 19th when oil painting was introduced to China.
We will start you on a right path with learning Chinese water painting or help you develop your own style of Chinese water painting.
Companion Chat in Chinese
With aging and migration become so prevalent globally, family members are well scattered around the globe, and many of them are busy with their own life, for elderly parents or grandparents to have somebody to talk to in their own native language will blessing of a huge magnitude. We will chat with you and can even help you write an autobiography if you would like us to.