The initial stage of the overseas students is the beginning of the whole learning process, which bears significant influences on the student’s future study, the oral lessons are the skill lesson with an aim to train and culture the oversea students’ oral communication skills and social abilities. It is agreed by students who’d been to learn […]
When you attend to Chinese language school to study Chinese, you may often learn some formal Chinese. However, you need some oral language when communicating with Chinese people. For instance, the expression 妈呀 may be frequently used in daily life like 妈呀！你吓死我了！There is another interjection which has the same meaning and application with this one, 老天爷. It is […]
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 […]
In China, many students not major in English are troubled by the College English Test (CET) because most of them have to pass the CET-4 and CET-6 if they want to graduate from the university. If you study Chinese, I think you can understand that kind of feeling too. For those who always fail the test, […]
When teaching Chinese language, can teachers teach the tones firstly? The answer is definitely yes with very simple reasons. First of all, just as those who attend to school to study Mandarin all know, there are 21 initial consonants and 40 simple or compound vowels in Chinese language. But there are only four tones, implying that the tones are easy […]
As we all know, the Chinese character components are helpful to understand character meaning and pronunciation. However, the overseas students who study in Mandarin learning courses should pay attention to several points when learning characters by making use of character components. First of all, they should make the best use of the components’ functions of indicating meaning […]
When learning Chinese language, the foreign students may articulate single word very good. However, when it comes to the sentence, the tones are incorrect. The reason of this phenomenon is complicated. Except for the memory factor, the students in volunteer programs in China may be affected by the aspects as follows: the continuous changes in tones, the influence […]
Read the paragraph in Mandarin lessons and choose the proper one. 1、 海南省旅游客数量＿＿上升，20年来，＿＿国内外旅游客数量增长25倍，旅游收入增长161倍，旅游业已经发展为支柱产业，同时也为这座城市的房地产的发展提供了＿＿。 A、继续 接见 机遇 B、持续 接待 机会 C、不断 招待 道路 D、一直 迎接 出路 Read the paragraph in Mandarin lessons and choose the proper one. 2、 放弃其实就是一种选择，我们只有在困境中放弃沉重的负担，才会拥有必胜的＿＿，才使我们走出阴雨绵绵的＿＿，放弃可以另辟蹊径，人生一样会很＿＿！ A 信心 岁月 漂亮 B 想法 时间 美好 C 信念 日子 美丽 C 观念 时候 好过 Read the paragraph in Mandarin lessons and […]
At present, the sentence structure is like this: “才” （cái）+ time/ quantifier…… Students who learn Chinese grammar get confused when they try to use 才 or 就. From these examples, we can notice that what the meaning of the sentence is similar with the meaning expressed by the sentence structure “time/ quantifier + 就（jiù）……”. We just add […]