School trip of CON: a boat trip through the tropical jungle, wading bus to explore the scenery of the African grasslands, 4D movies to experience the polar adventure, and the children’s favorite roller coaster~

In the last lesson before King's Day, students from the lower and middle classes held the "King's Day Free Market" together. Everyone wore orange or red, white and blue costumes, and brought spare toys to school to swap with classmates. Trading on the "market" is in full swing! Some teachers also brought their own toys and books to give away.

In addition, because April 22 is "Earth Day", students from different groups studied and discussed together. The students watched the video and actively answered the questions about Earth Day. Everyone has not only learned, but also practiced their Chinese listening and speaking skills!

Almere – Outside on the Deventerpad you can already hear it: the stamping of the clogs of thirteen Chinese children who are learning the clog dance in Casa Casla. It is the extracurricular summer activity of the Chinese education center Netherlands.

Under the guidance of teacher Limin Sichi Yang, the children show what they have already learned on this first day. From the loudspeakers the music of the ancient clog dance sounds. The children are already good at dancing: hands on their sides, clogs on their heels, steps, claps and turns, everything goes perfectly together. Then the children have to sit on the floor and a Chinese song is rehearsed.

Read more: Summer program: Clog dance & songs

On June 19, 2021, the Chinese Education Center (CON) organized the HSK exams in Amsterdam, in collaboration with the Confucius Institute Groningen. The CON usually does this twice a year. Due to the coronavirus, it only happened once this year.

As an extra service for our students, the CON has helped them with the registration and preparation. For example, the CON prints the admission ticket and lends out the special 2B pencils. When the HSK certificates are ready, we will also hand them out personally or send them to the students.

About 130 students took part in the HSK exams this time, from level 1 to 6. Not only CON students, but also many other students from all over the Netherlands came to Amsterdam.

If you also want to follow the Chinese lesson with us, you can register for our summer course or the autumn semester.
The website is: www.chineesvoorkinderen.nl

From A to Z is the Latin alphabet. The Chinese language works very differently! In the interview of Omroep Flevoland, the dean of the Chinese Education Center, who is also a board member of Chinese College, will tell you all about the language!

Have you always wondered, How tough Chinese is? How do you start learning Chinese? What methods do you use? How long does it take you as a Dutch person to learn Chinese fluently? Are there things that correspond in the Dutch and Chinese language?
Quickly click on the video and listen to her! (in Dutch)

Teachers of Chinees Onderwijscentrum Nederland participate in promoting the global youth speech contest!

We wish everyone good luck with the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing. We also wish all Chinese and Dutch athletes a good performance!