When we help foreign students to review the words have learned, we often check students master them or not by asking questions. To help students to learn Mandarin better, we will talk about some questioning techniques in the following parts. Just like the symbols like “n.” “v.” “adj” “adv” we see in the process of learning English, […]
learning Mandarin Chinese sometimes is a tedious process, teachers of Chinese school in Chinashould think of some methods to make the courses interesting and lively. The teacher of qualified Mandarin program will share a good teaching approach with all the Chinese teachers. According to the teaching contents, teachers can choose the lively sceneries around and lead students who study Chinese to go […]
Trying to sing Chinese songs is a good option to study Chinese because it is entertaining and relaxing. Among so many beautiful and sweet songs were sung in Chinese culture, “the moon tells my heart” is a very famous one. The song named “the moon tells my heart” is written by Sun Yi and composed by famous composer […]
According to my finding, I want to introduce the methods I use as following to the students who study Mandarin. 1. The comparison of Chinese and Western language talking speed Teachers measure and compare the talking speed of Spanish and Chinese together with students who study Mandarin and find how many syllables of Chinese and […]
There are many set phrases in Chinese language. Just like any other kind of language, set phrases inChinese language carry great cultural background. If students who study Chinese want to understand the meaning they should know the cultural background first. “昙花一现” is a well-known phrase in China, which is noted in “The Contemporary Chinese Dictionary” as “the broad-leaved epiphyll, […]
Because of the factors of globalization and immigration, the language teaching environment becomes diversification. As the expansion of a language spreading range and the increasing number of learners, language teaching environment will be more diversified. English is the lingua franca in the whole world. In China, all kinds of English teaching and tests are one […]
Since there are numerous Chinese characters, the appearance of some components of Chinese characters looks similar. As a result, Chinese people in ancient times might write the components incorrectly under the influence of another similar one in the process of writing. If you study in Mandarin language courses in China, you might have learned some characters […]
From the appearance, the foreign students who learn in Chinese language school can see that both phrase 客人来了and 来客人了 are composed of the same words with the similar meanings. However, the different structures lead to the different meanings they expressed. In order to express meanings correctly and apply them properly to the daily conversation, the learners should […]
foxtail millet while that in the south indicates specifically the rice. There are many more example of this type like 脚 and 闻. Accordingly, we can see that the original meanings and the present meanings can’t coexist in the transfer of words meanings. Once the new indication is recognized and used by the general public, […]
Most teachers who teach Chinese language overseas always hear students who learn Chinese say that “Chinese is too difficult to learn”. Therefore, it seems the overseas Chinese teaching is full of “difficulty”. As a matter of fact, “difficult” is the comparatively speaking of “easy”, so there is no absolute standard and boundary. Students learn Mandarin should know that it is not […]