Tidewater Chinese School shall
admit students of any gender, race, color, or national or ethnic origin to
all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or
made available to students at the school and shall not discriminate on the
basis of race, gender, color or national or ethnic origin in administration
of its
educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship, and other
school-administered programs.
This page contains answers to common questions
handled by our support staff, along with some tips and tricks that we have found
useful and presented here as questions.
You can register the classes and programs
in person at Tidewater Chinese School during registration period.
Our School is located
on the 2nd-3rd
floor of Batten Arts & Letters Building of
Old Dominion University,
Norfolk.
The School is in the Arts & Letters Building (BAL) of Old Dominion University.
BAL is located on the southwest block of 45th street
and
Hampton Blvd, Norfolk. Free parking is available on weekend.
Simplified Chinese Characters
(simplified Chinese:
简化字;
traditional Chinese: 簡化字;
pinyin:
Jianhuàzì orsimplified Chinese:
简体字;
traditional Chinese: 簡體字;
pinyin:
Jiantizì) are one of two standard sets of
Chinese characters of the contemporary
Chinese written language. They are based mostly on popular cursive (caoshu)
forms embodying graphic or phonetic simplifications of the "traditional"
forms that were used in printed text for over a thousand years.
Simplified character forms were created by decreasing
the number of strokes and simplifying the forms of a sizable proportion of
traditional Chinese characters. Some characters were simplified by
applying regular rules; Some characters were simplified irregularly.
Traditional Chinese is currently used in
the mainland China or Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.
Overseas Chinese communities generally use traditional
characters, but simplified characters are often used
among mainland Chinese immigrants.
Tidewater Chinese School, as non-profit
organization serving our tidewater community, provides classes of both
characters for student's selection.
We will help you find the class that fit you based on your
proficiency and goal. Ask us during registration and we will
arrange you to speak to the teachers, students, parents and sit in
different levels of classes until you find the one for you.