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The Best Video Resources for Teaching Chinese
Well, we’re winding up Term 1, 2013 here…which means we’re ramping up the search for new and exciting content for Term 2! Here’s some of the best bits and pieces we’ve come across so far: 1. Chinese with Mike Very entertaining and suitable for all ages Cover a variety of language functions – from pinyin and tones through to common grammar constructsion Many [...] -
Top 6 Resources for Teaching Pinyin
Pīnyīn Pinyin, albeit essential, is a very difficult thing to teach. If I cast my mind back to when I first started learning Chinese, I can’t remember much more than boring and repetitive pronunciation drills and a very intimidating pinyin chart that never really made sense. Here are some of the resources that have made our recent pinyin lessons [...] -
FluentU: The Fun Way to Chinese Fluency!
If you haven’t already found FluentU, then go and check it out right now! Here’s the link. Don’t worry, I’ll wait. Back? Awesome, right? It’s obviously designed for online, learn-at-your-own-pace students but I’ve used videos in several different ways in the classroom: as stimulus to start a discussion – the focus was more on culture rather than learning [...]
