by admin | Feb 28, 2019 | Blogs, Blogs for Teachers, Learn Chinese
During 15 days of Chinese Spring Festival, I prepared three-weeks’ culture-related activities and courses for my pilot class. During the first activity, 29 students learnt a fun rhyming song about how Chinese kids celebrate Spring Festival day by day. By...
by admin | Feb 23, 2019 | Blogs, Blogs for Teachers, Learn Chinese
The written Chinese is not an alphabetic, but logographic language. For majority of Chinese learners, writing Chinese is another obstacle next to the four tones. Do you have this problem? Do you know many basic characters started out as pictogram? Let’s see how...
by admin | Feb 23, 2019 | Blogs, Blogs for Teachers, Learn Chinese
The written Chinese is not an alphabetic, but logographic language. For majority of Chinese learners, writing Chinese is another obstacle next to the four tones. Do you have this problem? Do you know many basic characters started out as pictogram? Let’s see how...
by admin | Jan 29, 2019 | Blogs, Blogs for Teachers, Learn Chinese
Learning a new language is a long process. To get started is more important than to succeed. How to present new language items to learners explicitly, let’s see it with our Miss Mandarin. After the first lesson of self-introduction, I planned to focus on the...
by admin | Jan 18, 2019 | Blogs, Blogs for Teachers, Learn Chinese
How important are teaching methods for ideal results in education? How does every teacher develop her particular effective way of dealing the complex task of teaching? Both teacher and students are expected to assist each other in order to make the short class time...
by admin | Nov 20, 2018 | Blogs, Blogs for Families, Learn Chinese
Learning to speak a language is heavily linked to affective factors – your feelings and your reaction to the language environment around you. Children’s language ability of speaking an additional language does not come naturally. Many external factors have impacts on...