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One of our students come from Africa, his family is doing clothes trading business in China. He wants to learn Mandarin because he want to do business together with his families. The mandarin now is widely used all over the world. There are many opportunities for him to do the business between his hometown and China. Therefore, he start to learn not only the Mandarin but also the Chinese culture to know about how Chinese people do business and how they think in Chinese logic. The Mandarin study do helps a lot to him.

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As a Chinese teacher, I am always delighted to observe and learn from my students. One thing I have noticed in my interactions with my students is how hard most of them have to struggle during the learning process. The courses you take and the textbooks you use can of course be beneficial, but they alone cannot make you a better language learner. Too much time can be used up figuring out the meaning of words, taking notes in class, looking up words in the dictionary, or talking with friends.

When I teach a Chinese learner in the first stage, she felt that “gōng

Vocabulary in foreign language learning plays an important role. But for adults, especially the zero-level adults, the learning time is limited but the task is heavy. Do not worry about that, we will give you some tips about it, which can improve your efficiency to remember them.

As you know we have a large number of clients to learn business language. There is a common difficult position among them, that is they cannot keep the balance between working and learning. For this reason sometimes they have to cancel or reschedule the lesson.

When I introduced Pinyin to my totally zero-level client, he was so interested in the four tones and he asked me a question:” You said that tones are very important because different tones represent different characters and meanings. But how does it work when singing a song? I don’t think tones can get on well with melody, but how to settle the conflict?”

Mandarin is becoming one of the most popular and most common used languages over the world. More and more people start to learn mandarin because of their need for work, their interest or the wide spread of Chinese culture.
As a Chinese teacher in KirinMandarin, I really enjoy teaching my students from different countries. I am happy to see many students with different background working hard to learn Chinese. Their improvement in Mandarin will bring them happiness and make use in their lives and work. Moreover, I am glad to share the Chinese culture with my students during teaching Mandarin. Learning is experiencing, knowing is learning.

Between part of the Chinese characters and similar relationship, as the some as part of the English character spelling, all of languages have part of the similar character. Chinese characters learning not only growing number of words, but also, for easy to mix words do distinguish between process. For example, “大”“犬”“尤”“太”“头” ect words, one dot difference make up several different words. Like these, similar words put together as a group to explain. Emphasize a comparative , there are a lot of help to students memory.

Firstly, it’s very important to learn the Chinese spelling. There are twenty-three initials (e.g. a, o, e, I, u) and twenty-five finals (e.g. b, p, m, f), they’re similar to the English characters but most of them have different pronunciations. However, some of them are similar to English, for example, f (Chinese) pronounces “first”, n (Chinese) pronounces “name”.