Chinees Onderwijscentrum Nederland (CON) is an innovative institute with the mission to educate Chinese speaking talents for the Dutch society. The Chinese language and culture lessons aren given through a modern approach with high quality. All teachers of the institute are graduates from famous universities. They have longstanding experience in teaching and furthermore well trained in teaching with the aid of multimedia. All Chinese students do have the opportunity to take part in by the Chinese government sponsored summercamps.

The two locations of CON in Amsterdam and Utrecht are easily reachable and without any parking fee. All of our classrooms are equiped with a multimedia installation. 

Our target group are children and young people from the age of 5 to 18 years.

Due to the sharp increase in the number of COVID-19 infections, the school has decided, after deliberate consultation with the board, that we will continue online for all lessons in 2020, and the classroom lessons will be moved.

• Online class remains. In the past four months, the CON teachers have worked well together and have followed intensive training courses to provide the online lesson in a fun and effective way. The parents and students have also given a lot of positive feedback on this. The high marks from the final test that the students passed also show that our online lessons were successful. The online lesson gives parents more supervision over the learning process of their children. There is more interaction between the teacher and the student. The student participates more actively in the lesson and doing homework. There are many advantages of the online lesson: travel time is reduced, bad weather no longer matters, a child can learn Chinese in his own familiar environment. The student can practice the language even more efficiently with the help of study materials available online, and through audio, video, text typing and pronunciation. As of September, all online lessons are given on Sundays from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm, the lesson time is still 40-40-40 minutes, there are 2x 15 minute breaks between those lesson blocks. If your child has other activities on Saturday, you can register for the online lesson on Sunday.

• <Zhongwen> online lesson is available. <Zhongwen> is a series of books that Jinan University created for the Overseas Chinese children. It is based on the book that Chinese primary schools use. The emphasis is on reading and writing skills, not on daily conversations. This is suitable for students from a Chinese family who can already understand and speak Chinese well. Class time is: Sunday 10 am-12:30pm online, 40-40-40 minute class with 2x 15 minute breaks.

RTL4 Nieuws rapportage op het Chinees Onderwijscentrum Nederland.

Nǐ hǎo Hélán! Oftewel 'Hallo Nederland!' Deze Chinese zin kennen steeds meer mensen uit hun hoofd, want het Chinees is in opkomst. Steeds meer mensen melden zich aan voor Chinese taalcursussen en leerlingen doen vaker een examen Chinees op school. "Er is ook meer interesse van Nederlanders zonder Chinese familie."

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