In the classroom Chinese teaching as a foreign language, many teaching activities should be held to help students study Chinese better. At the same time, teachers should obey some basic principles when designing classroom activities. There are three basic principles should be obeyed, namely, interactivity, purposefulness and operability. The interaction means teachers and students affect each other. […]
With the introduction of sentence patterns teaching in 1970s, the flow of speech teaching was proposed. The flow of speech teaching emphasizes to learn speech sounds in the flow of speech. Ten years later, it was widely used to teach Mandarin language because it can correct the foreigners’ accent. The components of Chinese language should coordinate with each other. […]
Before getting started, We should get to know what are complements of results, complements of results are used to refer the results of certain action or state of being which had caused the change of state of the actor or the object, e.g., “打破了一个杯子” means the object “杯子”has changed a state due to the action”打”—”破了”; […]
This free Chinese lesson will help students learn Chinese words. When you are learning Chinese words, you may have probably found that the three words隐蔽 隐藏 隐瞒 are quite similar. The following discrimination between the three words concluded by the teacher will help you learn Chinese words.1 1、 隐蔽：V. hide oneself with the help of other things（conceal； take cover） Here we […]
The complement of result is an important grammar point for overseas students to master when they learn Chinese in China. The following parts will discuss the characteristics of the sentences with complement of result. The first point we learn is the negative forms of the complement of result. For the reason that the complement of result […]
Before, we have learned how to introduce ourselves by studying some basic and useful sentences and expressions. However, during the process when foreigners study in China, they will meet some other people. Therefore, we should also know some expressions to introduce somebody to other persons. First of all, the foreign students in Chinese school to study Mandarin […]
Time and date are closely related to our daily life. If we want to make a plan about our life, we should use specific time and date to form the plan. In the same sense, when foreigners study Chinese in China, they should know how to express time and date in Chinese. During the process that […]
When we say Chinese teaching should be understandable, we usually mean the language that teachers use should be popular, common and easy to understand for foreigners to study Chinese. It is decided by the language level of Chinese language learners. Teachers should avoid to using some complicated teaching language, thus making it professional grammar lesson. To choose the […]
“到底” and “终于” are two adverbs often seen when students learn Chinese in China but students often fail to tell them apart because they are very similar in meaning and application. Both of them carry the meaning that some certain conditions happen at last. In order to tell them apart, we will explain some tiny differences between […]
The joint compound is composed of coordinating morphemes with similar or opposite meanings. When you study Chinese at school, teacher may tell you that each morpheme has no difference in the status and importance. More importantly, the parts of speech of the two morphemes are the same. It usually the noun, verb or adjective, and the meanings […]