Founded in 2008, our program serves over 100 families from all five boroughs of New York City, New Jersey, West Chester and Long Island. Our families are diverse in their cultural and language backgrounds. We have 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation Chinese American children, Chinese-American biracial children, and children from other ethnic groups. All parents share the same goal of making Chinese language and culture part of their children’s lives. Some children come to us with previous exposure to Mandarin, Cantonese and other Chinese dialects, and other children have no previous exposure to Chinese at all. All students pursue an extensively field-tested curriculum framework, with the speed and depth tailored to their existing Chinese abilities. You can find students from all backgrounds at our most advanced levels. Students come to us once a week for a 2-hour long class during the regular school years. In the summer, many of them sustain and enrich their Chinese exposure through our NYC and China summer programs. Most of our students study for years with us, moving up our curriculum ladder in a steady fashion. We teach out of two locations: our main site in midtown Manhattan and another satellite location in Park Slope, Brooklyn.