Making Class Fun is Crucial for Student Success

It is important for me to have fun with all my students, and to find out their interests, and also to encourage them to study Chinese more.

As a Native Chinese Teacher, it is essentially my job to run a successful Chinese class that I can share with all my students. I must firstly know how to find out their different interests, and secondly be able to instill important study skills into them.

The Introduction of the Chinese Phonetic System

In modern Chinese, the initials and finals and tones form combinations known as syllables. In Chinese we called “PinYin”. Different with many languages in the world, Chinese syllables with the change of high and low lift, this is the tone. The following is the Chinese syllable system:

How to Answer Direct Questions in China

Living in China for some time makes one see that many aspects of one’s Chinese textbook were written in a foreigner-friendly manner. In particular, the actual questions that Chinese people ask can be much more direct and personal than one may have expected. This can come as a shock to those who are used to people avoiding certain topics or asking about things in an indirect way.