CHINESE
The Chinese language is like a big ancient tree with several main branches: Guan ("Northern" or Mandarin), (about 850 million speakers); Wu, which includes Shanghainese (about 90 million speakers); Yue (Cantonese), (about 80 million speakers); Min (Hokkien, which includes Taiwanese), (about 50 million speakers); Xiang, (about 35 million speakers); Hakka, or "guest family" speech (about 35 million speakers); Gan, (about 20 million speakers).
Chinese is almost always written in Chinese characters. They are symbols that have meaning, called logograms. A well-educated Chinese person knows 6,000-7,000 characters. About 3,000 Chinese characters are needed to read a Mainland newspaper, but you could read a newspaper knowing just the 400 most frequently used characters.
(Source: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language)
SOUTH COAST CHINESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL
School Motto: Promote Chinese Language & Culture for Our Next Generation
Location: Gwynneville Public School, 10a Acacia Ave, Gwynneville, NSW 2500
Day/Time: Friday 3.30pm to 5.30pm
Contact:
Principal Su-Lien Chen
T: 0418284503
Vice Principal Shao-Ping Yeh
T: 0431619196
ACADEMY OF CHINESE CULTURE
Mandarin and Cantonese classes
Location: Moorefield Girls High School, Marshall Street, Kogarah, NSW 2217
Day/Time: Saturdays 1.30pm to 4.30pm
Contact: Principal Dr Lin
T: 0405 303 638
QUEANBEYAN COMMUNITY CHINESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL
Location: Queanbeyan High School, Survey Street, Queanbeyan, NSW 2620
Day/Time: Saturday 10am to 12pm
Contact:
SHANHE EDUCATION INC (INGLEBURN CHINESE SCHOOL)
Chinese Mandarin classes.
Location: Ingleburn HS, 115 Oxford Rd, Ingleburn NSW 2565
Day/Time: Saturday 10 am to 3 pm
Contact: Sheffy 0466 551 480
WEST RYDE HUIZHI CHINESE SCHOOL
The West Ryde HuiZhi Chinese School Inc. was formally registered as a Chinese community language school in 2010. It currently operates four Chinese language classes. The students are mainly primary school- aged and come from a variety of language-speaking backgrounds. If you are interested in enrolling your child, you are warmly welcome. Please contact us for more details.
Location: West Ryde Public School, 6 Endeavour Street, West Ryde, NSW 2114
Day/Time: Monday 3.30pm to 5.30pm
Contact: Principal Lina Guo
T: 0406341693
WESTERN SYDNEY CHINESE SCHOOL
Chinese Mandarin classes.
Location: Carbramatta West Public School, Broad Street, Cabramatta, NSW 2166
Day/Time: Saturday 9am to 12.30pm
Contact:
T: 0413 649 076
WOLLONGONG MANDARIN CHINESE SCHOOL
Chinese Mandarin classes
Location: Smiths Hill HS, Gipps Street, Wollongong, NSW 2500
Day/Time: Friday 3.30pm to 5.30pm
Contact: Principal Yvonne Chen
T: 0413 649 076