Study Chinese with Keats School. Today, we will introduce a Chinese character, which represents “happiness” in English. In China, it is quite popular for people to get married during the Spring Festival or other traditional festivals in hopes that marriages will be blessed and joyful as the festivals. In China, getting married is known as […]
Study Chinese with Keats School. Today, we will introduce two characters which represent “marriage” in English. In ancient times, “结婚” (to get married) was written as “结昏”. In ancient times, Chinese people often held their wedding ceremonies at dusk (黄昏huán? hūn). This is related to the primitive custom of “marriage by capture” (抢婚qiǎn? hūn). As […]
study Chinese with Keats School. Here are a few tips for you to memorize the characters. The character “娶” is used to refer to a groom bringing his bride home to take her hand in marriage. This is also called “娶媳妇(qǔ xífù) ”. The character was written as “取” in the ancient times. The left-hand […]
Guangdong breakfast tea, in southern China, is a food culture with great appeal. The Guangdong menu has remained very consistent and is virtually standardized. It has a great variety of ingredients, taste, cooking methods and can cater to customer preferences. Although it is called “breakfast” tea, it is more like the western “brunch” and can […]
Shanghai shows different sides of herself to different people. It’s just like Shanghainese women: to Westerners they embody the mysterious East, and to Chinese they represent the fashionable West. In sum, the Shanghainese are the best at making people see what they want to see. In the past 100 years, Shanghai has attracted people from […]
The Shanghainese maintain their health by watching their daily diet. They are accustomed to going to the market around 4:00 or 5:00 of a morning. They buy fresh ingredients, and use them that same day because they won’t eat leftovers, even if only a day old. They are particular about food preparation and pay attention […]
Yue Fei’s Mother Tattooed Characters on the Skin of Yue Fei Yue Fei was a patriotic military commander of the Southern Song Dynasty and a national hero in resisting the invading Jin people. As a young man, he was diligent and adept in martial arts. His mother was afraid that after her death some unworthy […]
Study Chinese with Keats School: Longevity 寿(shòu) The top part of the character of the oracle bone script depicts an elderly person with a humpback, while the lower part consists of a hand(寸) and a mouth(口). As a whole, the character resembles a glass of wine being raised to celebrate the longevity of an elderly person. […]
Chinese ethnic minority – the Kirgiz nationality mainly lives in the Kirghiz Kirgiz Autonomous Perfecture in the southwest of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Kirgiz mainly engage in animal husbandry and take as their sidelines agriculture and livestock product-processing handicrafts. Eating The Kirgiz mainly eat meat, milk products and wheaten food; they also like cabbage, onion […]
The grand Kirgiz wedding ceremony consists of two steps: engagement and wedding. At the engagement, the boy’s family carries gift to the girl’s home on horseback, with some pure white cotton on the horse head as a symbol of engagement for marriage. The girl’s parents treat them to their best food. The Kirgiz wedding is […]
Moje ime je Sarah Fish. Stara sem 81 let. Ko sem prispela, sem znala zelo malo kitajščine. Kako naj bi preživela dva tedna intenzivnega tečaja kitajščine? Zdaj se moram smejati, ko pomislim na to. Kakšna pozitivna izkušnja je bila to! Resnično si želim, da bi lahko bili tukaj še malo dlje. Učitelji so izjemno spodbudni, najprej ocenijo, koliko nekdo zna, in nato začnejo od tam naprej.
To je moj drugi obisk. Lani sem bil prav tako približno 12 tednov. Tokrat sem prišel na 13 tednov poletnega programa na Kitajskem. Razlog, zakaj si še posebej želim priti v to šolo, so individualni tečaji. Tako sem lahko izboljšal svojo raven in se kitajsko naučil hitreje kot v skupinskih tečajih. Če bom imel prihodnje leto spet priložnost priti, bom zagotovo prišel.
Moram reči, da je zelo zabavno. Tukaj sem že dva tedna. Ker nisem vedel, kako bo, sem bil več kot presenečen, kako super je. Učitelji so odlični, razumevajoči. Imajo program kitajščine, ki ustreza ravno tebi. Lokacija je idealna za učenje kitajščine na Kitajskem.
Preden sem prišel na šolo Keats, nisem bil prepričan v svoje znanje kitajščine. Nisem imel dovolj samozavesti, da bi govoril mandarinščino in se pogovarjal s Kitajci. Vendar pa po štirih mesecih študija na šoli Keats postajam vedno bolj samozavesten v govorjenju kitajščine. Učenje kitajščine na Kitajskem na šoli Keats je bila najboljša odločitev, kar sem jih kdaj sprejel. V razredu je veliko iger, metode poučevanja mojega učitelja pa so zelo zanimive. Moje izkušnje na šoli Keats so spremenile moj pogled na Kitajsko in Kitajce.
V Keatsu imam veliko priložnosti za vadbo naučenega. Ta šola mi je zelo všeč, ker se lahko kitajščine učim individualno, zato mislim, da je to najboljši program poglobljenega učenja na Kitajskem in moj učitelj je najboljši učitelj. Mislim, da se brez mojega učitelja moja kitajščina zagotovo ne bo toliko izboljšala. Zelo sem vesel, ker sem v Keatsu svojo kitajščino znatno izboljšal.
Ni pomembno, kakšno raven kitajščine imate, lahko začnete celo od ničelne ravni. Vaš učitelj bo pripravil lekcije glede na vaše zahteve. Prednost bivanja v šoli je, da boste imeli svoje inštrukcije, zasebno nastanitev z lastno kopalnico in vse obroke. Vsem toplo priporočam, da dejansko izkoristijo celoten paket, saj boste lahko spoznali druge učence.
Prvi semester sem študiral na drugi šoli in tam je bil pritisk precej velik, ure v razredu so bile dolge, domače naloge pa precej dolgočasne. Odkar sem prišel na Keats, sem ugotovil, da imam veliko več priložnosti za govorjenje v razredu. Vsi moji sošolci tekoče govorijo in radi govorijo ter sodelujejo v razredu. Imamo odlično dinamiko v razredu.
Ne morem vam povedati, kako zelo mi je bilo všeč. Kar mi je bilo všeč pri učiteljih in metodi poučevanja, je bila velika prilagodljivost. Druga stvar, ki mi je bila všeč pri poučevanju, je bila kombinacija klasičnega učenja iz učbenikov in gibanja na prostem. Bilo mi je zelo všeč! Rad spoznavam druge učence. Vsi imajo isti cilj, in sicer izboljšati svojo kitajščino. Kunming je veliko mesto, vendar je tukaj zelo varno živeti. Druga stvar, ki mi je bila všeč pri Keatsu, je ideja, da ti ljudje tukaj pomagajo. Ne morem ga dovolj priporočiti. Mislim, da je bila to dragocena izkušnja. Veselim se vrnitve!