Chinese Culture Group of Greater Grand Rapids

Members of the Culture Group have asked many times if there was an introductory class tailored for adoptive parents or adults traveling to China. Chinese Village has had a long standing relationship with our culture group and is now offering just such a class.

During the 6 weeks students will learn standard greeting in Chinese, how to ask for directions, bartering in the marketplace and other necessary phrases for getting around in China.This new class utilizes the Chinese-At-A-Glance book that can be purchased at Barnes and Noble or any other online bookseller like Amazon. Students will learn the PinYin system, which is the romanized or phoentic way to spell the Chinese language. Sentence structure will also be taught so that students can increase their vocabulary after classes conclude using the English/Chinese dictionary included with the Chinese-At-A-Glance book.

If you’ve ever wanted to learn Chinese but didn’t have the time resources that a semester course demands, please consider this class. Class meets on Saturday for 2 hours which is much more convienent for most adults.

Class will be taught by Esther Wang, who’s teaching format has helped equip dedicated students with the building blocks to begin speaking the Chinese language very quickly. Class is held at Keystone Community Church which is located between Spaulding Ave and Ada Drive.
To signup for this class please visit http://www.chinesevillage.org/register.html

xie xie,

Mark Elenbaas
CCGGGR Secretary and Webmaster

Beginning in January 2007 we will be moving to a pay-per-meeting dues system. We realize that families may not be able to attend every meeting and so a pay-per-meeting structure offers more flexibility for our families.

The meeting fee will now be $5 unless otherwise stated in an event announcement. Both the meeting fee and the building donation can be paid at the beginning of each meeting. If you’d rather just pay the flat $40 dues for the whole year you can still do that by clicking on this link

Respectfully,

CCGGGR Board

Don’t click that back button, you’re still on the CCGGGR site, we’ve just re-designed it for ease of use and added some new features. If you’re looking to signup for an event please go to the Signup menu and then choose the event you are signing up for.

1. Links to adoption related sites can be found on the right hand side. I’ve also included links to a couple China news sites to help us all keep up on what’s happening in China.
2. A photo gallery has also been added so everyone can enjoy pictures from our events. To protect the groups privacy, this section cannot be viewed unless you have a username and password. Contact me at webmaster@ccgggr.org for a signon
I’d love to hear any suggestions you might have for enhancing this site. You can send comments to webmaster@ccgggr.org

zai jian,

Mark