Learn Chinese in China with Keats School

An investigation indicates that students who are learning Chinese Mandarin from different language backgrounds will choose different selective courses to meet their different language capability requirements. This investigation helps us to learn deeper about the demands of students so that we can design more practical teaching plans for them to learn Chinese Mandarin better. After […]

Foreigners may meet many problems when they learn to speak Chinese. In Chinese language, for example, the nouns are usually not allowed to be modified by 很. It is incorrect to say 很学生and 很馒头. As a matter of fact, it is the grammatical function of adjective that being modified by 很. However, in recent years, many phrases […]

When mentioning the vocabulary standardization, we usually divide it into the Mandarin vocabulary and the non-Mandarin vocabulary. Some of the foreign students who are studying in intensive Mandarin course in China may wonder the standard of dividing like this. Generally speaking, there are three principle should be obeyed when dividing it, namely, the necessity, the universality and […]

The Chinese teaching material is the bases of TCFL, and the Chinese classes without the teaching materials are not scientific enough, what’s more, students who had totally discarded the teaching materials while staying to study in China may also are purposeless or not clearly-targeted. In addition, the quality of the teaching materials bears a significant influence upon […]

As a teaching approach and research method, dramatizing teaching approach has been a relevantly independent subject in western countries and its application in Chinese Lessons and research have been paid much attention. Dramatizing teaching was applied in the final Chinese examination by a professor. He asked students to organize small groups, wrote the scripts and […]

The overseas students may find it is difficult to learn Chinese language when they study in China. Therefore, teachers should prepare some proper lead-in before they begin to teach the teaching points to help learners understand and remember easier. During the process of learning Chinese, students may have been familiar with the language they have mastered. So we can […]

In the objective world, we can use the numbers like 1, 2, 3 and 4 to indicate the number of things such as 书、苹果and桌子. However, those who come to learn Chinese in China should know that some things are not allowed to express with those numbers like 水、阳光、欢声笑语、烟味and希望. Accordingly, we call the words of the former type […]

One teacher of Chinese language courses suggests to using importing to teach new words to overseas students who are learning Chinese in China. The specific teaching approach concluded by teachers of Chinese language courses is that teacher can choose a word which has learnt before according to the teaching contents and ask students of Chinese […]

Most American people who learn Chinese in China may not know the name Wei Sanwei. But they may know the name Samuel Wells Williams, which is his English name. He was an important figure in the Sino-US relations of the modern history. He was not only one of the first missionaries who visit China, but also the […]

Time noun means the noun indicates the time and can be indicated by 这个时候and那个时候such as 去年、星期一、今天、凌晨、早上、中午、晚上、周末、现在、刚才、过去、从前、将来, etc. The time noun signifies the time point. When you study in Mandarin leaning courses, teachers would tell you that time noun can be functioned as subject, object and attribute, just like the ordinary noun like 春节快到了、在将来and今天的报纸来了吗？ However, the […]