The homographs are the words with the same form but different in part of speech and meanings. Teachers would tell you to understand it as the words seem the same one but actually they are two words. Different with the alphabetic writing like English, Chinese has no change or word form, thus failing to indicate […]
During the process of teaching Chinese, some teachers may find that some contents can be understood by students through tones and expressions without detailed explanation. That is to say, we can teach Mandarin Chinese by using the body language or making use of stress and tones to give students some hints. For example, in order to […]
For those overseas students who often speak 老师as老西and老司, they must be fail to master the pronouncing features of s, sh and x in Chinese Pinyin. When articulating s, the students who learn Mandarin need to know the upper part of the tip of the tongue and the back of the upper teeth form block and the path […]
For some English speaking learners who come to China for Chinese language learning, they may think there is no word stress in Chinese language, which is proved to be wrong. There are two reasons to explain why there is also word stress in Mandarin Chinese. The first reason is that the stress sound and unstressed […]
A piece of news comes from teachers in Mandarin learning courses that on the afternoon of November 25, the “Confucius Classroom” from the Pakistani Broadcasting, which is made by China Radio International, has held a “Chinese culture” joint performance in Sino- Pakistan Friendship Center. The theme of the performance is “comprehensively promoting Chinese teaching and Chinese culture, and […]
It should be assured that the phonetic teaching of Chinese at present is basically successful. As the beginning of Chinese language learning, the speech sound should be mastered in the first step. As a result, the teaching of speech sounds should begin with the single speech and then move to the flow of speech. To […]
Today our free Chinese lesson will provide some brief reading exercise for students who want to learn zhongwen online for free. To learn zhongwen better, you should have the ability of Chinese comprehension. The following exercise needs you to choose the right expression from the four choices according to the zhongwen paragraphs given. 1. 上网对青少年来说不完全是一件好事。现在，青少年用于上网的时间越来越多，据调查，青少年用户平均每周上网时间500分钟左右，如果平均到每日，约70分钟左右。上网的青少年中，玩游戏者占62%，使用聊天室者占54.5%，这些都大量的浪费了学生的时间。 A青少年上网的时间还不算多 B青少年常常因为查找资料而上网 […]
Practical Chinese learning materails for the advanced stundent who study Chinese and visit our free Chinese lessons section frequently. Read the paragraph in Chinese sentences and choose the proper one. 1、心理学家称，人们长期在过于＿＿的环境中工作会感染落叶综合症。而声音可＿＿起人们不同的感情。有些人尤其是老年人长期生活在极其安静的环境中，没有人与之聊天、谈心，也听不到富有生活气息的声音，时间长了就会变得性情孤僻，对周围的＿＿漠不关心，从而散失生活的＿＿，健康状况日趋下降，甚至过早离开人世。 A 安静 激起 全部 决心 B 寂静 诱发 全体 信念 C 宁静 激发 一切 信心 C 平静 唤起 所以 信任 Read the paragraph in Chinese sentences and choose the proper […]
In the process of Chinese language teaching, we can find that the learners come from different countries have various problems in pronunciation. But we can summarize the features of the foreigners’ pronunciation with a Chinese adjective “yang qiang yang diao”. It means the learners who study in China articulate is not standard so that we can tell it is […]
The task-based teaching method is effective in helping foreign learners to study Chinese. About the task choosing and classification, Candlin proposed a series of standards, including cognitive load, communication pressure, specifically and universality, code complexity and understanding density as well as the continuity of the process. If teachers can deal with these properly when foreigners study Chinese, […]