As the number of foreigners who learn Mandarin is increasing, the teachers who teach Chinese as a foreign language is also improving. It was reported that there were 17 thousand volunteer Chinese teacherssent to the Confucius Institute around the world by the end of 2010. The excellent Chinese teachers are not only distributed in foreign countries, but also the domestic […]
When processing the practice of the words meanings guessing, it mainly depends of really “guess”. Therefore, some of the students may guess disorderly during the process of learning Mandarin Chinese. Then teachers should take measures to avoid it. Firstly, the students should be demanded to tell the reason of guessing like this. In this way, the […]
During the process of talking with Chinese people, the foreigners who just learn Mandarin Chinese always fail to understand some oral expressions in Chinese language. Therefore, it is really important for them to learn some useful expressions every day. For example, …才怪呢 is one of the expressions often used in daily conversation. When people use it, they usually […]
Nowadays more and more people choose to learn Mandarin in China. In addition to this, overseas schools and governments are holding Mandarin language programs to help people who are interested in Chinese to learn Chinese language. For example, in Kazakhstan there are 10 universities have had the Mandarin language programs, among these 10 universities teaching […]
As the development of Chinese fever in the whole world, there are more and more overseas students choosing learning Mandarin, for they want to learn more about China and Chinese culture. Some of them even want to learn Chinese in China. In order to attract more students to learn Chinese in China, our researchers and […]
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 […]
For most overseas students who learn Chinese in China, vocabulary is a key factor to learn Chinese language better, as well as a difficult point for them. Therefore, teacher should take the responsibility to help them increase their vocabulary. In our daily talk, to express clearly what we want to say, we often need some adjective phrases, verb […]
For those Americans who ever come to learn Chinese in China may have known that the former president George Bush ever learned Chinese language during the time he was the director of the United States Liaison Office in Beijing. He expressed his opinion that it is important for him to learn Chinese language. When George Bush just arrived in China, […]
The adjectives in Chinese language often used to indicate the property and state. In reading process, if the students who study in intensive Mandarin courses in China do not know exactly the meaning of a certain word but can make sure the name is an adjective, they can guess the general meaning of this word according to the property […]
The changes in words meanings and forms lead to the results that the meaning elements do not indicate meanings and sound elements do not indicate pronunciation. Then, some foreign students who attend toone-on-one Chinese learning programs may wonder how many Chinese words have the meaning elements that do not indicate meanings. Some scholars ever regarded the […]