In this post, you’ll discover the ways to incorporate stories into your Chinese lessons. You’ll also find some tips, resources and benefits of story-learning for Chinese beginners. Contents 5 Ways to Teach Mandarin to Beginners with Stories 1. Pre-teach key vocabulary to provide comprehensible...
Practice using the four Mandarin tones. Mandarin Chinese is a tonal language, which means that different tones can change the meaning of a word, even if the pronunciation and spelling are otherwise the same. It is essential to learn the different tones if you wish to speak Mandarin Chinese co...
In Chinese learning, this is a serious problem. We found some students abroad will try to remember the pronunciations of the words when they are taught a new phrase. But they pay less attention to the characters. EX: If I told you, 主管(zhǔ guǎn) means supervisor in an online Chines...
How to Learn Mandarin - Killer Tips You Must Learn. “Some people are talented language learners; unfortunately I was never one of them.”
Language learning apps make it possible to learn Chinese anywhere, and they can be a powerful tool in your Chinese learning arsenal. If you want to learn to speak Mandarin Chinese, then you’ll want to pick an app that uses the immersion method to teach you Chinese. ...
Beginners could find this difficult as they start out.That's because Chinese isn't an alphabet like much of the world uses. Instead, they use thousands of symbols. This may seem overwhelming, especially when Mandarin Chinese contains over 400 syllables. Though it's not a perfect science, memo...
How I Learnt To Speak Beginner’s Thai I had decided to travel to Bangkok and devote two weeks to learning Thai with my good friend Jan van der Aa. We discussed the plan in this video. Although two weeks is a short time, it was the time I had available for travel. I had always ...
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Tonesare tricky because they aren't used to create different words in English. Of course, we do vary the tone height when we speak English too, but it doesn't change the basic meaning of a wordlike it does in Chinese. Therefore, it's common for beginners to not be able to hear tone...