F25-15 - Aren’t You Curious About Japanese and Chinese Characters?

F25-15 - Aren’t You Curious About Japanese and Chinese Characters?

Class | Registration opens 9/2/2025 9:00 AM

ACES/Staff Development/Administration Building 205 Skiff St Hamden, CT 06517 United States
Conference Center
10/14/2025-11/4/2025
10:00 AM-11:30 AM on Tue
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$20.00

F25-15 - Aren’t You Curious About Japanese and Chinese Characters?

Class | Registration opens 9/2/2025 9:00 AM

For those who have NO understanding of either Japanese or Mandarin, this course is designed to be a general
introduction to the fascinating world of characters, those symbols that we see on the side of buses or at the Dim
Sum place in New York. How do they “work”? How can they be typed? Why is it faster to read characters
than the Roman alphabet? How can one text with characters? Disclaimer: The instructor is not fluent in either
Japanese or Mandarin, but she is totally obsessed with characters and has been studying them since 2008.

Gabriella Brand

Gabriella Brand is a bilingual educator, writer, and public speaker.  She has over thirty years’ experience as a teacher of French language and literature.  In addition, she has served as an intern at the United Nations during her university years. She was a program director at an Alliance Francaise. She holds a diploma from the Universite de Neuchatel, Switzerland and an MA in French pedagogy from Middlebury College, Vermont.