Forthcoming Zheng He Foundation Mandarin, Chinese Civilisation and Islam course
Assalamu 'alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu,
Zheng He Foundation presents:
1 WEEK INTENSIVE MANDARIN, CHINESE CHARACTERS, CHINESE HISTORY, AND ISLAM
Taught by Ibrahim Chao Ma (Peking University and Zheng He Foundation)*,
Professor Ashiyat (WeiHua Ma) (Xi'an University and Zheng He Foundation)*
and others.
Date: Monday 14th - Sunday 20th July 2008
Time: 9am - 6pm
Venue: Birkbeck College, University of London, 30 Russell Square,
London, WC1B 5DP
DEADLINE FOR BOOKING: WEDNESDAY 9TH JULY 2008
This course will cover 10 week introductory Mandarin Level 1 in 1 week.
Students will have at least 3-4 hours of intensive language tuition per day.
They will then be taught the basics of Chinese Characters (Han character or
Hanzi or sinographs). Essential of Chinese Characters for everyday
use. Students
will learn about chinese writing and teach themselves to write it. Detailed
description of the character character, very basic calligraphy, stroke order,
origin and etymology, meaning, scripts provided along with examples.
And finally late afternoon, we go through Chinese History, Culture and
civilisation and Islam in China.
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Please forward to others who may be interested.
DEADLINE FOR BOOKING: WEDNESDAY 9TH JULY 2008
For more information about the courses please respond to this e-mail
or call us at the number given below.
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Wassalaam 'alaikum wa rahmatullaah.
- Admin, Zheng He Foundation
Tel: 07956 983 609
E-mail: info@zhenghe.org.uk
Website: www.zhenghe.org.uk
Will this be available online? Pretty interested in learning a little cantonese/mandarin and some history.
So far I can go as far as "Ni Hao" (with no real knowledge on how to actually pronounce it) along with a few other very colourful profanities (which I also cannot pronounce).
and I want to know if there was a warrior poet called SHan Yu/Xian Yu and whether he held people over the edge of a volcano. To meet "the real them".
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.