Delicious food itself is a kind of art which is not isolated but tightly tied with other arts and emerged together into a stereo and comprehensive art. People who are learning Mandarin in China may hear about that there are many descriptions about delicious food in A Dream of Red Mansions, one of the four famous classic […]
The teaching Chinese as second language still has the tendency that pays more attention to teaching knowledge than to cultivating abilities. This doesn’t accord with the students’ demands of language application ability. To improve the efficiency of Chinese teaching and learning, we must do something to change this tendency. To launch the Chinese teaching activity with learners […]
Everybody can make mistakes, not to speak of the overseas students who learn at Chinese language school because learning Chinese is not an easy job. Different levels of Chinese language learners make various mistakes. Let’s have a look what kind of mistakes students make. For those students who attend to school to study in China at the elementary level, they often make some […]
After students learning some basic words and grammar points, the most important thing is to put what they learned into use. Therefore, for the learners study in China, we should improve their language skill on all sides. When it comes to the daily talk, students should be able to ask questions and have adaptability to changes […]
To examine the proficiency of students in the contents they learnt in the last class efficiently and precisely, teachers of the qualified Mandarin program designed some subjects for students. One useful subject is to answer questions after listening to stories. The specific way is that teacher can write a story according to the new words, grammar and […]
The most obvious characteristic of the words in development is the constantly created new words. Foreign students who learn Mandarin should know the so-called new words are the words that created in the developing process but not existed in the former vocabulary system. However, the “new” is a relative time concept because we can say every word […]
The analogue method is also called the method of pattern. During the process when foreigners learn Mandarin, they may know it is different from the comprehensive approach and deductive method because it resolves the grammar rules into some sentence patterns and then standardized the sentence patterns into some example sentences. After that, the learners who learn Mandarin can […]
As the development of Chinese economy and the popularization of mandarin fever, more and more people choose to learn Mandarin in China, which include many overseas Chinese students. For they have family environment of Chinese, they can listen or speak a little simple Chinese before they come to China. Therefore, they need to improve their […]
The traditional Chinese language speech analysis is always starting from syllable, to be specific, the pronunciation of Chinese characters. Every foreign student who is studying in Mandarin language courses in China should know that the syllable of Chinese language is composed of initial consonant, simple or compound vowel and tone, so is that in the contents of Phonetic System of the Chinese […]
It is necessary for overseas students to learn some relevant cultural knowledge about China when the learn Chinese in China because it plays a crucial role in Chinese language. In China, number can carry very important information of the culture, among which nine is very special. In the traditional culture of Chinese nation, the number “9” is the […]