Course description
SYDNEY LANGUAGE SOLUTIONS is a registered provider of the CREATIVE KIDS PROGRAM. When enrolling in Cantonese for Kids course at Sydney Language Solutions, you can redeem your $50 CREATIVE KIDS VOUCHER .
What’s special about Cantonese for Kids?
- SLS offers a 8-week/10-week Cantonese for Kids – BEGINNER 1 for children who wish to learn basic conversational Cantonese in a fun, friendly and interactive environment.
- SLS offers Cantonese for Junior Kids [5-10 years old] and Cantonese for Senior Kids [10-16 years old]. Kids can attend Online or Face-to-Face Cantonese Class
- Available at our convenient Sydney CBD location during after school hours from 4:30 – 5:45 pm or on Saturday 10:30 am – 11:30 am, our course is ideal for kids to enjoy learning a second language in Cantonese
- All language courses come with free training materials and free bottle of water.
- We do not only teach language in formal class setting, but engage your children in interacting and using languages from cue cards, singing or games and activities in Cantonese.
- Your children will enjoy our small class sizes for a great interactive learning experience in a fun environment.
- Upon completion, your children will also receive a Certificate of Participation.
Who should take Cantonese course for Kids?
Children from 5-10 years old who have no existing (or very little) knowledge of Cantonese, who wants to begin a course of study and to know simple words and phrases to start communicating with a Cantonese parent/relative/speaker.
If your kids are from 10-14 years old, they could join our Cantonese for Senior Kids here
If your kids are over 14 years old, they could join our Cantonese for Senior Kids or Cantonese Beginner 1 for Adults.
Detailed Program – Cantonese for Kids
Week 1 Introduction: Alphabet
Week 2 Thank you / Goodbye / Sorry
Week 3 Where are you from? Saying countries
Week 4 The family: family members
Week 5 Number. What time is it?
Week 6 What’s the weather like today?
Week 7 Let’s go shopping (part 1). Groceries
Week 8 Let’s go shopping (part 2).
Week 9 Using adjectives to describe colours
Week 10 Body parts
Expected Outcomes – Cantonese for Kids:
By the end of this course students will be able to:
- Able to make basic Cantonese sentences in the present tense
- Able to greet people, saying thank you, goodbye, sorry
- Able to tell something about himself / herself
- Able to describe his / her house
- Able to describe his /her classroom in a simple way
- Able to describe his / her family members
- Able to use adjectives to describe colours or things in certain colours
- Able to use adjectives to describe weight and quantity.
- Able to tell what time it is
Upcoming Cantonese for Kids class:
This course is suitable for those who know basic Cantonese or have learned Cantonese for Beginner 1 before. Please check out the syllabus for Beginner 1 course, if your kids know all of the topics, they are suitable for Beginner 2
Cantonese for Kids Beginner 1
Term 4: Saturday 19 October 2024
- Class time: EVERY Saturday 10:30 pm – 11:30 pm x 9 weeks
- Price: $352 (9 weeks)
- Mode: Face-to-face
Term 4: Monday 14 October 2024
- Class time: EVERY Monday 05:00 pm – 06:00 pm x 9 weeks
- Price: $352 (9 weeks)
- Mode: Face-to-face
Cantonese for Kids Beginner 3
Term 4: Saturday 19 October 2024
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- Class time: EVERY Saturday 11:30 am – 12:30 pm x 9 weeks
- Price: $352 (9 weeks)
- Mode: Face-to-face
Upcoming Class – TERM 1 HOLIDAY BREAK
- Japanese Holiday Camp for Kids Tuesday 14 Jan 2025 and Monday 20 Jan 2025
- Class Time: 09:30 am – 3:30 pm
- Price: $165 (1 day)
Korean Holiday Camp for Kids Wednesday 15 Jan 2025 and Tuesday 21 Jan 2025
- Class Time: 09:30 am – 3:30 pm
- Price: $165 (1 day)
Cantonese Holiday Camp for Kids Wednesday 15 Jan 2025 and Tuesday 21 Jan 2025
- Class Time: 09:30 am – 3:30 pm
- Price: $165 (1 day)
Mandarin Holiday Camp for Kids Tuesday 21 Jan 2025 and Wednesday 22 Jan 2025
- Class Time: 09:30 am – 3:30 pm
- Price: $165 (1 day)
Spanish Holiday Camp for Kids Wednesday 22 Jan 2024
- Class Time: 9.30am – 3.30 pm
- Price: $165 (1 day)
Vietnamese Holiday Camp for Kids Tuesday 21 Jan 2025
- Class Time: 09:30 am – 3:30 pm
- Price: $165 (1 day)
German Holiday Camp for Kids Wednesday 22 Jan 2025
- Class Time: 09:30 am – 3:30 pm
- Price: $165 (1 day)
Russian Holiday Camp for Kids Thursday 23 Jan 2025
- Class Time: 09:30 am – 3:30 pm
- Price: $165 (1 day)
Tagalog Holiday Camp for Kids Thursday 23 Jan 2025
- Class Time: 09:30 am – 3:30 pm
- Price: $165 (1 day)
Dutch Holiday Camp for Kids Wednesday 22 Jan 2025
- Class Time: 09:30 am – 3:30 pm
- Price: $165 (1 day)
Holiday Camp program
- 9:30 – 10:30am: Language Class – Learn in Group with Teacher
- 10:30 – 10:45am: Crunch and Sip
- 10:45-12:00pm: Language Class – Pair Activities
- 12:00 – 1pm: Lunch Time
- 1:00 – 2pm: Drawing Pokemon / Cartoon with Language Description
- 2:00 – 2:15pm: Break 2
- 2:15 – 3:30 pm: Describe yourself in the Language
- 3:30pm : Class ending
- If you pick your child at 5pm, extra fee of $15 + GST for child-keeping will be applied
- Even though class starts at 9:30 am, you can drop your kid at 8:30am as the earliest, but extra fee of $15 + GST will be applied
Cantonese for Kids now go ONLINE!
- Our fun Online 75-minute-immersive live class is suitable for those who live far away from Sydney CBD and loves to study Cantonese from home
- Parents and Kids can join our online course, with only an extra $80 for each parent’s attendance
- Class time: 4:30 pm – 5:45 pm (weeknight) or 10:00 am – 11:15 am (Sunday)
- Each class is limited to a maximum of 4-6 students to ensure maximum interactivity and engagement with our teachers and the quality of the lessons
- Students can get a soft version of our training materials.
Location:
Suite 302, 363 Pitt Street, Sydney, NSW 2000.
Special service:
Find parking a little bit tricky? You can drop your kids in the front of the office and our friendly staff will come down and pick them up safely to their classes.
Face-to-face Class Update:
Do we accept Creative Kids Voucher?
- SYDNEY LANGUAGE SOLUTIONS is a registered provider of the CREATIVE KIDS PROGRAM
- When enrolling into Language for Kids course at Sydney Language Solutions, you can redeem your $50 CREATIVE KIDS VOUCHER when you enrol on our program.
- Enrolling 2 weeks before starting day to receive 10% off, so you only need to pay $297 if enrolling at least 2 weeks before the course starts. So if you use Creative Kids Voucher $50 and pay 2 weeks in advance, you only need to pay $247 for the whole term!
How To Get The Free $50 Creative Kids Voucher?
- Visit service.nsw.gov.au/campaign/creative-kids.
- Create or login to your MyServiceNSW Account.
- Complete a Creative Kids application through your MyServiceNSW Account. You will receive a voucher with a unique ID number for each child you register (available to download, print and email).
- Redeem your voucher with a unique ID number on SLS ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM by using coupon code ‘CKID’ at checkout. The $50 will automatically be deducted from the total fee and you only need to pay the remaining by eway, EFTPOS or Paypal online.
- It is compulsory that you must add your voucher details and your child date of birth into your enrolment form. Without these details, we have to reject your enrolment.
Please Note:
- When enrolling, the Creative Kids Voucher will be redeemed immediately by Sydney Language Solutions and will be non-refundable and non-transferable.
- Please always register with both the parents’ name, contact details and the children’s name.
- The enrolment fee must be paid at least one week in advance of the course commencement date.
- All classes need a minimum of 5 students to go ahead.
- If the course does not have enough 5 students, it will be cancelled and you will be informed via SMS or email 4 working days before the starting date. Alternatively, upon having your approval, we may re-schedule the course 2 weeks later to get more enrolments or we will offer the course for less students with 25% less hours than 15 hours.
Flashcard Cantonese for Kids
Your kids can self-study Cantonese at home via our system for just $20. We offer 5 sets of vocabulary (numbers, family, animal, color and vehicle) with a worksheet and activity book for your kids to practice at home.
How kids should study this course?
- Video: Study new vocabulary through 5 videos, which last around 1 minute 40 seconds. Each video contains 10 new words on that topic. Kids should repeat the teacher’s pronunciation of the new words.
- Fun fact: Kids can understand Chinese culture and people’s life through short fun facts under each video set.
- Practice time: Kids practice writing new words through our workbook. This workbook includes a worksheet and word-picture-matching activity.
- Answer key to practice activity can be found at the end of the course.
Enroll here: https://ccl-online-courses.teachable.com/p/cantonese-for-kids/
Self-Study Online Course
You should join this class if:
You would like to find a reliable place for your kids to study Cantonese but:
- You live too far from Sydney CBD to attend face-to-face class
- You would like your kids to study at their own pace, in their own time rather than a fixed class timetable
What’s included in this package:
- This course includes ALL FEATURES from Flashcard Package
- 10 lessons delivered by an experienced native teacher. The lessons are taught in a fun and simple way, suitable for COMPLETE beginner learners. These lessons use the same syllabus as our face-to-face class.
- 10 sets of vocabulary videos on different topics: Number, Family, Animal, Vehicle, Colour, House, School, Job, Groceries and Country.
- 10 worksheets to match with 10 flashcards topics for your kids to practice writing at home.
What’s special about this course:
- You can enroll anytime and get lifetime access once you’ve paid. You can easily track your kid’s learning process and kids can re-watch the lesson anytime.
- The course is designed based on the same syllabus as the face-to-face class. So you can move from online to face-to-face learning with extra $180 only.
- Get a FREE course with your Creative Kids Voucher. The course is $100 so you can pay completely 100% of the course fee by using your valid Creative Kids Voucher. No extra fee is required.
Tuition Fees: $100 for lifetime access
How to enroll:
- Step 1: Enroll in this course : https://ccl-online-courses.teachable.com/p/self-study-cantonese-for-kids
- Step 2: Payment method:
- Pay directly on the teachable website by your credit card
- OR Pay by $100 Creative Kids Voucher:
Please email us your Creative Kids Number + Kids’ name + Date of Birth and we will send you the code to access the course within 48 hours. You will enter this code on the teachable website and have immediate access.
Frequently Asked Questions:
What age are the children?
- The children will be from 5 to 12. However, as their levels in the language class would be all beginner, the classes will be split according to level. If more than 6 students enrol, we will do our best to divide the students into 2 classes: one for junior children from 5-8 and one for older children from 9-12.
Do you offer make up class?
- We do not offer any make-up class if you are absent, but our teachers will review last week’s content. If you attend class and are absent for more than 50% of the course, we can allow your child to join the next available course but we cannot issue a refund once the course is confirmed.
Can I join the course late?
- Your child can still join the course up until Week 4 and just pay for the remaining weeks of the term. However, we require your child have at least a 45 -minute session with a private tutor [at an extra cost] before they join the course.
Can I use Creative Kid Voucher?
- Yes, you can redeem your Creative Kids voucher with us. When enrolling on our website, please enter your Creative Kid Voucher ID number in the comment section. Use Code CKIDS to reduce the fee by $100.
Do I have any discount for siblings / friends / cousins to study together?
- If your child studies with a sibling/ friend/ cousin, each of them will receive 5% discount on top of 10% EARLY BIRD Discount.
When can I receive EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT?
- If you enrol 2 weeks before the course starts, you will receive an EARLY BIRD discount of 10% off.
What is the difference between the class during school terms and the class during school holiday?
- During school term, the class will be on one fixed day a week, either every Saturday from 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm or on a weekday afternoon from 4:30 pm – 5:45, classes will run for 10 weeks.
- During School Holiday, the class will be held for 4 days each week, from Monday to Thursday between 4:00 pm-600 pm. You can choose to study for only 1 week or for both of the school holiday.
What should I bring?
- We offer a FREE water bottle on the first day of the course. You should fill it in with boiled water so they can bring it along to class. They should also bring a pencil case.
What will they learn?
- Our teachers will engage them in many play-based activities, singing, story-telling, flashcards, and even videos to help them practise the target language to build confidence.
Do we have Certificate of Participation for your child?
- Yes, we offer a Certificate of Participation for your child.
Please note:
- If the course is cancelled because of low enrolment, you will be refunded
- If the course has been confirmed by email to start, we can’t refund.
- If the course has not been confirmed and you request to cancel enrolment at least 7 working days before the course starting day, you are entitled to a refund with a deduction of $60 admin fee, as per our Terms and Conditions.