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Language is the  to another world!
The North Coast Chinese Language Academy (NCCLA) is a community language school teaching modern standard simplified Chinese (Mandarin) language and culture to school-aged children and adults (including HSC prep) in Far North Coast, NSW. We pride ourselves in quality of teaching and learning environment. We emphasize maximum use of the target language during the learning experience, thus maximizing acquisition through exposure. We respect all students and their diverse backgrounds, needs, interests, and achievements. We strive to fulfill our students' needs and prepare them to be global citizens in this competitive, modern world and achieve their personal goals in their future lives and careers.
Why learn Chinese?
China is Australia's No. 1 trading partner — becoming bilingual with Chinese as a second language ensures a future with the greatest business, academic collaboration, and job opportunities. Invest today, reap the rewards tomorrow! Chinese is spoken by over one sixth of the world’s population, and China has more than five millennia of history, civilization, and unparalleled achievements in literature, philosophy, science, arts, music, architecture, medicine, agriculture, and more to explore and learn. Mandarin has highly similar grammar and sentence structure to English, an enormous advantage for English users looking to learn a second language. Chinese characters are pictographic, a highly natural representation for the human brain to absorb and learn to read. Chinese calligraphy is highly regarded as a form of art as well as communication.
Our teacher
Growing up in northeast China, Ping is a native Chinese (Mandarin) speaker. She worked as a professional Chinese-Japanese interpreter and translator in international business settings in both China and Japan for eight years. She migrated to Australia in 2002 and was accredited NAATI Level 3 (professional level) in Chinese-English interpreting and translation in 2003 and awarded a Graduate Diploma in Language (LOTE) Teaching from University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) in 2007. She is a qualified and registered teacher of Chinese and Japanese languages in NSW, and has been teaching the subjects of Chinese, Japanese, and Maths in public, private, boys', girls', and co-ed schools in NSW since 2008. Ping holds a current NAPLAN "Writing Marking" accreditation and "Working With Children Check" certificate.
Curriculum
We follow the current curriculum approved by NSW Department of Education as well as the guidelines of the International Curriculum for Chinese Language Education published by the Office of Chinese Language Council International (Hanban) in 2008.
We emphasize the four key components of language learning — speaking, reading, listening, and writing — as well as provide context through cultural awareness and study. Our lessons introduce students to the Chinese language using school-based teaching materials created around various engaging topics, teaching students the basic Mandarin pronunciation-based transcription system Pinyin, the modern standard simplified Chinese character system, and grammar. We help our students develop their language skills through interactive activities, songs, poems, arts-and-crafts, games, and other tools that make learning lots of fun!
Enrol
No terms currently scheduled – NSW-area service permanently ended, sorry.
Last term:
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2016 Term 3
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19 July – 24 September
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Course
CB101A
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Chinese Beginner Ages 6-12 Step 1
Tuesdays 3:15 p.m. – 4:10 p.m.
Holy Family Catholic Primary School
40 Isabella Drive, Skennars Head
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Course
CB101B
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Chinese Beginner Ages 6-12 Step 1
Saturdays 3:30 p.m. – 4:25 p.m.
Ballina Public School
48 Crane Street, Ballina
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Course
CB301A
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Chinese Beginner Ages 13-18 / HSC Prep Step 1
Saturdays 1:30 p.m. – 2:25 p.m.
Ballina Public School
48 Crane Street, Ballina
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Course
CB102A
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Chinese Beginner Ages 6-12 Step 2
Mondays 3:20 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Emmanuel Anglican College
62 Horizon Drive, Ballina
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Course
CB103A
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Chinese Beginner Ages 6-12 Step 3
Saturdays 9:30 a.m. – 10:25 a.m.
Ballina Public School
48 Crane Street, Ballina
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Class Size
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Minimum 5, maximum 20
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Course Fee
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$265 ($25 per class
x 1 class per week
x 9 weeks per term
pro-rated for late start,
$20 materials,
$20 administration)
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Books Fee
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$ 80 once per every 4 Steps
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To apply for our Chinese course, download the application (104 kB Microsoft Word document file), complete one copy per student electronically, and email the completed file(s) to [n/a] . Placement is first-come, first-served.
If you do not receive a response within 3 business days, then please email or call.
If no placement is available, then you will receive email notification that your request was queued for next available placement; for other arrangements, please email or call.
If placement is available, then you will receive an email containing an invoice, enrolment form, and remaining instructions. Per those instructions, please ensure that we receive the signed enrolment form and payment by or on the due date stated on the invoice, otherwise the placement may be withdrawn.
Once we receive payment, you will receive email confirmation — your enrolment is successful!
Enquire
Please do not hesitate to reach out by any of the means presented below.
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