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Teaching Characters Online Using Zoom Whiteboard
In the beginners class, I can see that when providing both Pinyin and characters, students do not look at characters at all, at least for many of them. Pinyin is...
Teaching Characters Online Using Zoom Whiteboard
In the beginners class, I can see that when providing both Pinyin and characters, students do not look at characters at all, at least for many of them. Pinyin is...
Learning Mandarin for Beginners — Some reflecti...
Lately, have I been teaching Beginner classes where the learners have no prior knowledge of the language. I come to realise that the difficult part to make one aware of...
Learning Mandarin for Beginners — Some reflecti...
Lately, have I been teaching Beginner classes where the learners have no prior knowledge of the language. I come to realise that the difficult part to make one aware of...
听(tīng)后(hòu)感(gǎn)-Review of A album/collectio...
So I listened to the album Concierto de Fin de Año 2021 and I feel like I have a lot to say. I found it so refreshing listening to this...
听(tīng)后(hòu)感(gǎn)-Review of A album/collectio...
So I listened to the album Concierto de Fin de Año 2021 and I feel like I have a lot to say. I found it so refreshing listening to this...
Learning Mandarin: About Chinese Grammar from t...
Growing up in China, I had a subject called 语文（yǔ wén）which you can say is Chinese, but more, is Chinese for Chinese. When I was learning English, the hard bit...
Learning Mandarin: About Chinese Grammar from t...
Growing up in China, I had a subject called 语文（yǔ wén）which you can say is Chinese, but more, is Chinese for Chinese. When I was learning English, the hard bit...
speaking Mandarin from the picture: 看图说话 (kàn t...
猜一猜， 这在哪里？（cāi yì cāi, zhè zài nǎ li）where is this? 你看到了什么？（nǐ kàn dào le shén me）what can you see? 词汇 （cí huì）vocabulary 街道 （jiē dào）/ 街 (jiē) street 摩托车 （mó...
speaking Mandarin from the picture: 看图说话 (kàn t...
猜一猜， 这在哪里？（cāi yì cāi, zhè zài nǎ li）where is this? 你看到了什么？（nǐ kàn dào le shén me）what can you see? 词汇 （cí huì）vocabulary 街道 （jiē dào）/ 街 (jiē) street 摩托车 （mó...
About learning 拼音 （pīn yīn）and the 4 Tones.
Besides learning to read and write Chinese characters, learning pronunciation in Mandarin scares lots of people off because of the four tones in the Mandarin pronunciation system 拼音 (pīn yīn)....
About learning 拼音 （pīn yīn）and the 4 Tones.
Besides learning to read and write Chinese characters, learning pronunciation in Mandarin scares lots of people off because of the four tones in the Mandarin pronunciation system 拼音 (pīn yīn)....