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 18, 2019 | Blogs, Blogs for Teachers, Resources For Teachers
How to greet in Chinese, let’s listen to the story in my class. What is the first word we learn when we are exposed to a new language? There may be many answers and for different reasons. However, greetings are always one of the first things someone...
by admin | Feb 7, 2019 | Blogs, Blogs for Teachers, Resources For Teachers
Culture is essential when studying languages. Because understanding cultural background–art, literature, lifestyle– helps you reach language proficiency and really live the language while you learn. Therefore, learning Chinese culture is part of Chinese learning....
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...
