, #mandarinforkids lily, a 9- year -o ld girl from an american family with no chinese background, felt overwhelmed when she first started learning mandarin. she often doubted her ability to grasp such a complex language and lacked confidence in her progress. however, as her parents and ...
Hannah and Kai started 8th and 5th grade their language immersion school and are doing great. This will be Hannah’s last year there, so we will have to figure out how she can continue working on Mandarin after this year since it is not widely available in high schools. I feel so grate...
and children language acquisition occurs even if adults do not speak perfectly. What is critical is not that children hear complete sentences, but that they are directly engaged in conversation. Even parents with limited Chinese proficiency can interact with their young children in Mandarin, providing...
TLDR: High-frequency lists are a common way to learn a language, but most lists focus on characters (单词) rather than phrases (词语), which can be challenging for young children. We used Data Science to determine the 50 most common phrases (词语) that appear in the P1A textbook, spellin...
The primary feature of K12 tutoring is its tailored approach, wherein tutors assess each student's individual strengths and weaknesses and adapt lessons to address specific challenges. This individualized support can cover a wide range of subjects, including language arts, social studies, math, and...
into the lessons. The children speak in Mandarin, and they are shown eating noodles (instead of pizza), reading scrolls on their beds instead of comic books, using chopsticks rather than forks, and memorizing poems for school instead of writing essays. In this way, watching movies helps them...
Other than teaching, what negative aspects are there for living in scenery, China? Language barrier, facebook and Youtube are all blocked. What advice would you give to someone considering coming to Beihai, China? come and be prepared. ...
Expanding abroad could be one. When VIPKID finished the D round of financing, it announced the launch of Lingo Bus, the online learning platform for overseas children aged 5 to 12 to study Mandarin Chinese. For the product pilot, it hired 100 teachers to serve its first batch of Chinese ...
has had enormous political and economic power but that is changing. In much of East Asia, Mandarin Chinese has already displaced English as the chief second language of study. One third of the students at my daughter's Mandarin school in Asia are boarders who come from other Asian countries....
In the past 12 months VIPKid has grown from 6,000 to more than 30,000 teachers and has more than 200,000 paying students. A hundred thousand classes are taught on the platform each day. In August, VIPKid launched Lingo Bus, a Mandarin tutoring service for children. ...