If you could read 1,000 commonly used Chinese characters, you could recognize 90-percent of the characters used in Chinese newspapers. A knowledge of Chinese will give you a distinctive advantage in the job market. In business alone, the demand for people who can speak Chinese is skyrocketing.
The Chinese Program offers you the opportunity to learn this critical language.
Courses in Chinese connect you with an experienced faculty, who will help you develop valuable language skills with an emphasis on business-relevant vocabulary, sociolinguistic and cultural knowledge, and strategies for reading Chinese at an advanced level.
The Department of Modern and Classical Languages has moved to the the Aquia Building located between Thompson Hall and Student Union Building I. The phone number remains the same - 703-993-1220.
Clayton Richey, a philosophy student at George Mason University, traveled to China to satisfy a long-held curiosity about Asian culture. After living in South Korea for five years as a child, Richey immersed himself in the teachings of the Shaolin, philosophy and language. He was driven to travel to China because “mastering a language requires more than just classroom training,” he said. “You need first-hand experience with the culture.”
Artistic performances by Mason students in the languages that they are learning, Polyglot Performances enters its third year. A celebration of linguistic diversity and multicultural understanding, this year's event honors the life of Jeff Chamberlain, department chair and associate professor of French, who recently lost his long battle with pancreatic cancer.
