Learn Chinese With Me Book 1 Pdf

[Oludare Padilla]

I have to say that I am very impressed with the structure of the lessons. I have been learning Chinese for about four months, and I find your method very helpful. You start with the basic sentence structure then provide more complicated sentences, and even have an authentic dialogue at the end. I found it to be very easy to learn through this gradual process. Keep up the great work!

learn chinese with me book 1 pdf

Download File https://mciun.com/2yH9Lo 

These videos are great! I really like how organized they are. It makes it really easy to build on each skill learned. As a former English teacher, I appreciate the methods you use! Keep up the good work!

Seeing the pressure his students faced to speak from early on, Brown developed Crosstalk as a way for them to gain more listening experience and communicate with speakers of their target language without having to speak it themselves.

I could have used more visual materials as the basis for our discussions and to aid my comprehension, instead of the newspapers that mainly contained Chinese text and often provoked conversation that, while potentially interesting, was often too abstract and advanced to be highly comprehensible and efficient for learning.

I found that by this stage my comprehension of Mandarin had grown enough that even though the lessons were mainly or only audio, we could have Crosstalk conversations that went very smoothly with few breakdowns in communication.

Looking for real exchanges like this, I volunteered as a tutor for a conversation class for Chinese newcomers to Canada, in hopes of helping people with their English while acquiring Mandarin at the same time.

I would have started working with tutors earlier in my learning, instead of putting it off partly out of concern that I did not have enough comprehension of Mandarin to use Crosstalk effectively at earlier stages in my learning.

I share my experience to help you feel empowered and equipped to start your journey of learning and teaching your child Chinese. This is the guide I wish I had from the start. Below, I break down the process into 6 key steps.

What makes a good beginner Chinese class? Lessons should be filled with interactive conversations that gradually build confidence and high-yield vocabulary. Run away from teachers who rely on passive videos and PowerPoint presentations.

Unfortunately, this was not an option in our non-diverse location. I searched high and low for Mandarin-speaking nannies and babysitters in our area with no luck. We also have no space for a live-in caregiver.

Although the BaoBao Learns Chinese music book was designed for young children, they are also perfect for grown-up beginner Mandarin learners! Each book features popular nursery rhymes from Chinese and American culture.

乐乐 / 樂樂 Le Le Chinese Reading Pen Book Set comes with 300 books on various topics with realistic illustrations. This series is a splurge but a worthwhile investment for most non-fluent families.

Skip this section if time is tight. In my humble opinion, the modern world of typing and texting weakens the practicality of Chinese writing. For second-language learners, Chinese writing is not a necessity.

Dr. Betty Choi is a Harvard-trained pediatrician and mother on a mission to connect families through language and play. Chalk Academy was inspired by her trials and triumphs with relearning a heritage language and raising bilingual children in a monolingual community. Dr. Choi's advice has been featured in Healthline, Parents, The Atlantic, and VeryWell.

My earliest memory of code switching is at Pizza Hut, back when Pizza Huts were sit-down restaurants with salad bars and garlic bread. (Like any daughter of immigrants, most of my memories involve food.) My mom and dad would speak with the waiters in English, ordering our pan-crust pizzas and Pepsi products, but we used Mandarin at the table. Our Mandarin was our secret code.

Growing up, dropping into Mandarin with Mom was so normal that nothing stands out about it in my mind. What became notable as I got older was her halting relationship with English. N's are a real trip-up for her; she likes to pronounce the letter N like "un" rather than "en," so I could tell she had to repeat or explain herself any time she needed to spell her name to make appointments. When we went to the mall together as a child, I noticed the makeup counter ladies didn't engage my mom like they did the other moms, and I wondered if she was getting left out of other mom-related groups, too.

Baby Eva is mixed race and second-generation Chinese-American. Her solely English-speaking dad, Matt, says he needs subtitles when he takes part in dinners and vacations with the extended family, because without them he feels isolated and bored. His futile attempt at pricey Mandarin courses taught over Skype gave him some recognition of common words, but not much more. Now, he says, "It's even worse that I understand about 15 percent of the conversation, because it's just enough to be tantalizing and not enough to get what's going on."

This is an experiment, and without serious commitment, its failure is likely. Early exposure to Mandarin at home is probably not enough to balance against the pervasiveness of English all around Eva. I have two Chinese-born parents and only spoke Mandarin with one of them. Eva has two American-born parents who will strain to maintain enough Chinese at home for her to remember. Had my mom not obviously struggled with her English and insisted on Chinese at home, my young self probably would have refused to use Mandarin and quickly lost it, to my later detriment and regret.

So I keep using Mandarin with Eva as much as I can, in hopes she'll catch on and keep on. It's not just because knowing it will be helpful in this increasingly "flat" world. What I get from being able to switch in and out of the Chinese language is a feeling of belonging in a culture that's actually quite foreign to me. My parents bucked the stereotypes of "tiger" parenting, never checking my report card or SATs; I grew up in nearly all-white suburbs in Missouri and Texas, and regular contact with anything authentically Chinese was hard to come by. I feel far more Texan than Asian most of the time. (Texas exceptionalism being what it is, many Texans feel more Texan than they feel American.)

Once you are finished with the video lesson, there is so much extra content waiting on our lesson's page, including vocabulary, sentence reviews, and expansions, where we give further examples of the lesson's grammatical structure and vocabulary in different context.

Rote memorization is boring and not the most effective method, but we suggest using the supplementary vocabulary lists in conjunction with the audio or video to accelerate your rate of achieving language competency.

I studied Mandarin Chinese 50 years ago. It took me nine months to reach a level where I could translate newspaper editorials from English to Chinese and from Chinese to English, read novels and interpret for people, I did this in the age of the open-reel tape recorder, long before the age of the internet, online dictionaries, language learning apps, MP3 files and YouTube.

If I reflect on what I did, I find that there were six things that helped me learn faster than other students who were studying with me. Below I list each of these tips on how to learn Chinese which you may want to apply to your studies.

Start out by focusing on listening. Just get used to the sounds. You should read whatever you are listening to, but do so using a phonetic writing system, such as Pinyin, in order to get a better sense of what you are hearing. You will have to learn the characters eventually but you can leave the characters out at first, and instead, try to get a little momentum in the language.

My first introduction to Mandarin was listening to Chinese Dialogues, an intermediate text with no characters, just romanization, in this case the Yale version of romanization. Today Pinyin, developed in China, has become the standard form of romanization for Mandarin. In Chinese Dialogues, the narrator spoke so fast I thought he was torturing us. But it worked. After a month or so I was used to the speed and had a sense of the language.

As an aside, I think it is a good idea to begin learning a language with intermediate level texts that include a lot of repetition of vocabulary, rather than overly simple beginner texts. Podcasts and audio books are great for this. The Mandarin Chinese mini- stories at LingQ are an example of the kind of point of view stories, with a great deal of repetition of high frequency verbs, that are available today. These were not available to me 50 years ago. Watching movies and TV shows is another excellent way to get lots of Chinese listening in.

With a sense of this exciting new language and some aural comprehension, my motivation to learn the characters grew. I wanted to know the characters for the words that I had been listening to and getting used to.

The study of Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, is a long term project. It will bring you in touch with the language and the culture of well over 20% of humanity and a major influence on world history. For this reason, I always recommend learning Chinese characters if you are going to learn the language.

Once you decide to study Chinese characters, work at them every day. Devote half an hour to an hour a day just on learning characters. Use whatever method you want, but set aside dedicated character learning time every day. Why every day? Because you will forget the characters almost as quickly as you learn them, and therefore need to relearn them again and again.You may want to use Anki or some other modern computer based learning system.

 582128177f