Australasian Centre of Chinese Studies, Melbourne, VIC Videos

Sinking dragon boat
Don't forget - our Intensive Beginners classes are starting in 3 day's time (12th June). The Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon on Monday, June 10, 2024 which is an important traditional holiday for the Chinese. All the Chinese will have a 3-day holiday from Jun.8 to Jun.10. It's celebrated with dragon boat races and a notable tradition is the making and eating of Zongzi with family and friends.

Chinese dragon dance using drones
Did you know that Chinese New Year last 16 days, starting on Feb 10 and ending with the Lantern Festival on Feb 24? The Lantern Festival marks the end of the Chinese New Year period. Meanwhile, our Mid-Term Intensive Chinese classes are starting on 6th March. Check out this video of drones! Guess where this is?

Xmas is almost here and our timetable for the new Year is out including our Summer Intensive classes. Meanwhile, our teachers have decided to show off their aqua aerobics skills here. Actually this is the Chinese Olympics team. Hahaha.

Jambalaya
Hello everyone, Xmas is almost here again! Meanwhile, check out the rendition of this old favourite 'Jambalaya' by a Chinese bluegrass band using an erhu and a banjo.

Happy Holidays everyone! The Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival starts from September 29th. Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhongqiu Jie (中秋节), also known as the Mooncake Festival, is one of China's biggest holidays. This festive time is a celebration with family reunions, mooncakes, parades, and lanterns. Meanwhile, please get in touch with Robert on 0401 529 920 or [email protected] to get yourself enrolled for Term 4's classes. We have new Beginners classes starting also. #learnchinese #accschinese #chineseonlineclass

Mid Autumn Festival
Happy Holidays everyone! The Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival starts from September 29th. Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhongqiu Jie (中秋节), also known as the Mooncake Festival, is one of China's biggest holidays. This festive time is a celebration with family reunions, mooncakes, parades, and lanterns. Meanwhile, please get in touch with Robert on 0401 529 920 or [email protected] to get yourself enrolled for Term 4's classes. We have new Beginners classes starting also.

Fabulous and funny Modern Chinese Drama
Our Term 2 classes have finished. Enrol for Term 3 Chinese classes now which are starting from mid-July onwards. Meanwhile, if you are not into Historical Chinese dramas, check out 'Across the Ocean to See You' which is a contemporary drama - totally addictive. The main leads had great chemistry and had some hilarious moments. You can find this drama with English subtitles in Youtube or Viki.

Dragonboat race
Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional Chinese holiday which falls on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month. This year it falls on June 22. China will have 3 days of public holiday from this Thursday. Dragon Boat festival is celebrated in remembrance of Qu Yuan, a Chinese poet and statesman who drowned himself in the Miluo River in 278 BC in protest of his beloved homeland's fall. The festival include dragon boat races and eating glutinous rice dumplings (Zongzi). Zongzi are made of glutinous rice filled with meat, beans, and other fillings. They are wrapped in triangle or rectangle shapes within bamboo or reed leaves and tied with soaked stalks.

Yanxi Palace
It's almost the end of our Term 2 of Chinese classes - Term 3 will start from mid-July. If you can't wait to start, ask us about Private classes or Company classes. Meanwhile, check out this highly rated Chinese drama, 'Yanxi Palace', on Youtube or Netflix to improve your listening and reading (subtitles, hehe) skills.

Our new Term 2 starts next week! There are still a few more places for our Beginners classes. Contact Robert at [email protected] for more details. Meanwhile, check out this video featuring Yang Mi and Dilraba Dilmurat who also starred in the 2017 Chinese television series, 'Three Lives, Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms', which has reached over 50 billion views, becoming the most watched television series in the world. You can find this series in Youtube.

The Chinese Lantern Festival or Yuanxiao Festival (元宵节) on 5th Feb, marks the end of the Chinese New Year. On the night of the Chinese Lantern Festival, streets are decorated with colorful lanterns. People eat sweet rice balls called tangyuan, watch dragon and lion dances, and set off fireworks. All our Chinese classes are starting this week - make sure you don't miss out! Call or email Robert now before it's too late.

We wish you all the very best this coming Lunar New Year. In 2023, we celebrate the Year of the Rabbit – a Chinese zodiac sign associated with speed, courage and elegance. Watch this video to get inspired for the next 12 months! Two more weeks before all our Accelerated Learning Chinese classes start. Enrol now by contacting Robert at hello@accschinese or just call him on 0401 529 920!

Happy New Year everyone! We wish that your 2023 will be full of happiness, good health and prosperity! Meanwhile, don't forget our Summer Intensive and Revision courses starting 11th January. Email Robert on [email protected] for more details. Are you ready to travel to China soon? Check out what you can do in this video below.

We wish you and your family a safe and happy holiday season and look forward to welcoming you back to our classes in the New Year! Don't forget our Summer Intensive courses coming up soon. Meanwhile, enjoy a bit of Xmas cheer from these two amazing flutists!

End of Term 4 is almost here and we are all looking forward to Xmas soon. Yay! New Summer Intensive Beginners classes will commence mid January. Also, new Revision conversational Mandarin classes. With the right teaching technique (Accelerated Learning) from us, anyone can learn Chinese as easy as this boy learnt dancing!

UN Chinese Language Day theme song (Language of Spring).
We are now in the 1st week of Chinese classes for our new Term 4 - not too late to enrol since our classes are video recorded! To inspire you, here's the UN Chinese Language Day theme song (Language of Spring).

Mid Autumn Festival
Happy Mid-Autumn festival everybody! The Mid-Autumn Festival is also called the Moon Festival or the Mooncake Festival and it falls on September 10th this year. The Mid-Autumn Festival is the second most important festival in China after Chinese New Year. Chinese people celebrate it by gathering for dinners and lighting paper lanterns. Make sure you give your teacher a virtual mooncake or an e-mooncake! Better still, go celebrate after class! Here's a good video from Mulan explaining about this Festival.

Traditonal Chinese dancer in red
Warm up your winter with this short clip of a traditional Chinese dance! Pretty cool, right? Don't forget that our new Term 3 will start again very soon in mid-July. Please enrol with Robert as soon as possible on [email protected].

Following up on my previous post, here is the backstory about Principal Zhang, and why he came up with the dance practice that has captivated millions online. 1 more week to go before our Intensive Beginners classes start. Enrol now before all the classes gets booked out. Email Robert at [email protected]

We will now have new dance moves for our Chinese classes - check out this video so that you are prepared! New Mid-Term Intensive classes are commencing from 9th June onwards. If you are a beginner and would like to jump start your Chinese Mandarin language skills, enrol now by contacting Robert at [email protected].