Welcome to my NOVA Chinese Blog. You can start learning Chinese and Chinese culture here with me or continue your journey to improve your Chinese proficiency and cultural competency with me here.  Hope you like the resources I provide here and hope you find them helpful!

I will be teaching three virtual or online Chinese courses.  Hope you can join us this summer and contact me at dtan@nvcc.edu if you have any questions.  Our 10-week summer course will start on May 31, 2022.

2022 NOVA Summer Virtual and Online Courses

TAKE CHINESE at NOVA!

Sign up for 2022 Summer Synchronous/Hybrid Virtual and Totally Online Chinese Courses https://www.nvcc.edu/admissions/register.html

 Beginning Chinese I CHI 101-30YA (36817) for five credits

4:00 to 5:55pm Tuesday and Thursday for 10 weeks.

The first class meeting will be on Tuesday, May 31, 2022.

 NOVA Online Chinese 102

Beginning Chinese II CHI 102- E60A (41312) for five credits

 NOVA Online Chinese 201

 Intermediate Chinese I CHI 201- E60A (41909) for four credits

 All Our NOVA Online Courses will have a one-hour extra credit synchronous online meeting per week during the weekly evening hours.

All Three Chinese courses will start on May 31 and end on August 8, 2022.

Questions? Contact Dr. Tan at dtan@nvcc.edu

Useful tools to help you learn Chinese

NOVA STARTALK eTower: an OER Website to learn Chinese with ancient Chinese painting 

JinbuPal (进步)

https://app.jinbupal.com/register

Pinterest Tools and Scaffolds

https://www.pinterest.com/grahnforlang/target-language-tools-supports-and-scaffolds/chinese/

TAKE CHINESE at NOVA!

Sign up for 2022 Summer Synchronous/Hybrid Virtual and Totally Online Chinese Courses https://www.nvcc.edu/admissions/register.html

 Beginning Chinese I CHI 101-30YA (36817) for five credits

4:00 to 5:55pm Tuesday and Thursday for 10 weeks.

The first class meeting will be on Tuesday, May 31, 2022.

 NOVA Online Chinese 102

Beginning Chinese II CHI 102- E60A (41312) for five credits

 NOVA Online Chinese 201

 Intermediate Chinese I CHI 201- E60A (41909) for four credits

 All Our NOVA Online Courses will have a one-hour extra credit synchronous online meeting per week during the weekly evening hours.

All Three Chinese courses will start on May 31 and end on August 8, 2022.

Questions? Contact Dr. Tan at dtan@nvcc.edu

1. China is one of the world’s oldest and richest continuous cultures, over 4000 years old.
2. With a population of 1.3 billion, Chinese is the second most widely spoken language in the world after English.
3. China is the second largest economy in the world and the largest trading partner of the United States.
4. Learning Chinese will improve your job prospects in the government and many businesses.
5. Chinese is a fascinating language with no conjunction, no gender, no inflection, and no case.

At NOVA, Chinese courses fulfill the foreign language requirement and general elective requirements for degrees.  Our 200-level courses will count towards Humanities Electives and fulfill the foreign language requirement for Liberal Arts degrees and are transferrable to four-year colleges. The 100-level courses will count towards General Electives.  If you are obtaining a Science Degree or any other degree where foreign language is not required, the 200 level courses will count towards your Humanities Electives.