Why Another Chinese School in Pleasanton and the Tri-Valley Area?

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="044fd5a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Pleasanton Community Chinese School</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pleasanton Community Chinese School"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> Why Another Chinese School in Pleasanton?</div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="045d2b03.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I><B>Why Another Chinese School in Pleasanton and the Tri-Valley Area?</B></I></div> <bR> <div> Many of you who have entered this website may wonder "why there is another Chinese School in Pleasanton and surrounding Tri-Valley Area?"  Well, the answer is essy.  We are different from the others.  We make learning fun at Pleasanton Community Chinese School.  </div> <bR> <div> <B>Pleasanton Community Chinese School</B> will be teaching Chinese using <B>Traditional Chinese</B> writing characters.  Unlike other Chinese schools in the immediate area, students will have a choice of learning either Mandarin or Cantonese dialect.  For Mandarin dialect, the parents can elect to enroll their child in either Taiwan's 'bopomofo' [Zhuyin] and China's Pinyin pronunciation methods.  </div> <bR> <div> Another major differentiation for Pleasanton Community Chinese School is that for Zhuyin Mandarin classes, we will incorporate 'Pinyin' and Simplified Chinese into the curriculum at higher grades.  Once the children have mastered the fundamental Chinese characters and 'bopomofo' (when applicable), we intend to introduce Chinese 'Pinyin' pronunciation method (also known as Romanized Chinese) starting around 4th grade.  Moreover, the children will also begin to learn Simplified Chinese Characters starting around 6th & 7th grade (or earlier).  This will be accomplished by relearning the Chinese vocabulary words from 1st grade and up in Simplified form.  This we believe is the best way to associate Traditional and Simplified Chinese characters.  </div> <bR> <div> Why learn Traditional Chinese characters?  Hundreds if not thousands of years of Chinese history and culture are written and documented in Traditional Chinese characters.  This would be lost if Traditional Chinese writing are no longer taught and read.  Moreover, can you read the Chinese restaurant menu when you sit down at a Chinese restaurant today?  Most of the menu items are all printed in Traditional Chinese characters.  Lastly, did you know most of the educated scholars (and scientists) from China also have learned the Traditional Chinese Characters so they can learn more about Chinese History.  Interesting, isn't it?  The choice is yours!   </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mission"><U><B>Mission</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="201112 School Calendar"><U><B>2011-12 School Calendar</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Registration Forms"><U><B>Registration Forms</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id54.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="PreK Classes"><U><B>Pre-K Classes</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id50.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Safety Patrol "><U><B>Safety Patrol </B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Class Worksheets"><U><B>Class Worksheets</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Member List"><U><B>Member List</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Related Links"><U><B>Related Links</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id58.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U><B>Contact Us</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Acknowledgments"><U><B>Special Acknowledgments</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Chinese Web Page"><U><B>Chinese Web Page</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id57.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Everything a new Student or parent needs"><U><B>Everything a new Student or parent needs to know</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id59.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News and gossip"><U><B>News and gossip</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id61.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SCRIP"><U><B>SCRIP</B></U></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>