The principal point of correcting pronunciation mistake is to find the mistakes students have made. Don’t look down upon this part. It is hard to really do this without experience. There are always some Chinese teachers who are working in Mandarin language program asking me: why they could hear that the students speak wrongly, but […]
Rennes University 2—Haute Bretagne, An Xiong Although teaching Chinese as a foreign language has developed rapidly all over the world, most of Chinese textbooks choose to focus on the oral Chinese teaching. They use a method call “分散识字法”(fēn sàn shí zì fǎ)（learning the Chinese Characters in decentralization）. This method has run counter to the law […]
Compared with the ordinary Chinese testing for the students who learn Mandarin in China , the specific Chinese testing has features as following: 1. High homogeny of examiner source Specific Chinese testing in Chinese Lessons is often facing to a certain field. Thus the target examiners are usually from a specific field or interested in […]
The method of holding a debating competition in class is really helpful to practice the spoken Chinese language. At the beginning of the class, the teachers should first introduce some basic information for the students to prepare for the debating. For instance, the living styles of Chinese women and Japanese women. Then, the students who learn Mandarin […]
When getting along with Chinese people during the process of learning in Chinese language school, better application of oral Chinese can create a congenial atmosphere. For example, if you bother others, you can say 不好意思 or 对不起. But it is not the only way. If you intend to show apology for bothering others, you can use […]
How many tones in Mandarin Chinese? The question is raised because there is a soft tone in Chinese language. Even though people often use 5 or 0 or nothing to mark the syllable of soft tone, foreigners who attend to school to study Mandarin should aware that the soft tone is not a kind of tone in Chinese. […]
It is important for overseas students to know some relevant knowledge about the subject of teaching Chineseas a foreign language when they learn Chinese in China. As a professor who engaged in this work more than 40 years, Liu Xun will give us some useful information about it. By asking what kind of subject teaching Chinese as a foreign […]
The overseas students may find it is difficult to learn Chinese language when they study in China. Therefore, teachers should prepare some proper lead-in before they begin to teach the teaching points to help learners understand and remember easier. During the process of learning Chinese, students may have been familiar with the language they have mastered. So we can […]
When you learn the two words 起来and下来, the Chinese teachers in one-on-one Chinese learning programsmay take 胖起来and瘦下来as examples. However, it might be confusing for you because both起来and下来in the two phrases indicate the meaning of “begin and will continue”. But why, the different words should be applied differently with 胖and瘦. What are the essential differences between them? Let’s take […]
Even though Chinese language learners do not know how to learn Mandarin at very beginning, they all know Chinese characters are composed of phonetic indicators and meaning elements, each has their own functions. That is to say, phonetic indicators of Chinese characters indicate the pronunciation of the characters while the meaning elements indicate the meanings. […]