Here you can find articles on “Mandarin Chinese Teaching Resources”, dedicated to providing educators, parents, and learners with effective strategies and tools for teaching Mandarin to kids and beginners. You’ll discover innovative teaching methods, essential learning tools, engaging activities, and tips to make Mandarin learning enjoyable and effective. Explore reviews of the best apps, textbooks, and online platforms, along with fun activities like songs, crafts, and cultural projects. Whether you’re an experienced teacher or just starting out, our resources will help you foster a love for Mandarin Chinese in your students.
As we all know, Chinese characters are an essential part of Chinese language. Should children learn to write Chinese characters? As the basic units of the language, Chinese characters are necessary to learn, even for kids at young age. Here are seven tips on teaching kids to write Chinese characters. First, let’s have a look […]
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There are several ways of learning Chinese vocabulary. We can use visual aids, demonstration or explanation and other methods. Mind maps, or spider grams, as visual forms of note taking, are very effective in learning Chinese vocabulary. Using mind maps to learn Chinese has been proven to be very effective. What Are Mind Maps Usually
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都 is one of the commonly used characters in Chinese. Literally it means “both” and “all”. This Chinese Vocabulary Study guide you 都 features the basic grammatical rules on how to use the word with many useful examples. 葡萄和苹果，我都喜欢。 This sentence can be translated into English as “Grapes and apples, I like both. “ As
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也 (yě) means “too” or “also”.Chinese vocabulary study guide Ye 也 explains the basic rules of how to use 也 in Chinese as well as some common mistakes and how to avoid them. Let’s have a look at a sentence first. My friend is going to the library. I am going there too. This is
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不 (bu) is a common word in Chinese. It literally means “no, not”. In this vocabulary study guide, I would like to list some rules of how to use it in Chinese. to Negate a VERB 不 is generally used to negate a verb in the present of future tense by simply putting it in front
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Chinese numbers are fundamental for Chinese learning. To some extent, learning Chinese numbers serves a shortcut to learn many other Chinese topics such as year, month, date, weekdays, time and much more. MY CHINESE NUMBER BOOKLET However, many times these topics are taught separately at different time in different units. Because the knowledge is not
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Numbers in Chinese are comparatively easy. Once a person learns 1-10, it is easy for him/her to learn 11-99. What Can We Do with the Chinese Numbers In Chinese, numbers one to ten are the most basic ones to learn. Once they are mastered, it is easy to move forward: – We can count higher Many
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Like English, there are many punctuation marks to organize and clarify the Chinese language. There are some similar punctuation marks as well as some different marks. So, what are the Chinese punctuation marks? In fact, we can categorize the Chinese punctuation marks into two groups: the ones that are similar to the western punctuation marks
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If you ask a Chinese learner, “what is the most difficult part when you learn Chinese? ” Most likely, you will hear “Chinese characters” and “Chinese Pronunciation” as the answers. To learn Chinese characters, it takes time, patience and a lot of exercises. To get the pronunciation right, it also takes time and a lot
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Little projects make language learning fun. Chinese learning can be so much fun with the aid of technology. Here I would like to show you how to use Adobe Voice, an app available for iPads and iPhones, to create some easy projects for Chinese learning. Adobe Voice is a wonderful storytelling app which enables children,
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There are many occasions we celebrate Chinese culture and traditions. Chinese new year, also called Spring Festival, is a great chance. International Day is another great event. China study is for sure the 3rd opportunity to embrace Chinese culture and traditions to our children’s lives. However, it is not always easy to find the Chinese
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It is hard to believe 2015 is nearly over. When you look back, don’t you feel that this is a year full of action, achievement and good time? When I sit down to think of the resolutions for the next year, I ask myself what I have done right this year and what has been
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Chinese is not an easy language to learn. Compared to English, Chinese learning materials and support are also limited. It is often to see frustrated parents and teachers for trying to keep their kids stay interested and motivated and therefore achieve their learning goals. What is your biggest challenge? Where do you need the most
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Tuttle Publishing is one of the top publishers of books rooted in Asian culture, language, and history. I received 2 books from Tuttle Publishing recently: one is ” My First Book of Chinese Words” and the other is “Chinese For Kids Flash Cards“. Both books are beautifully designed and printed. Here I would like to review “Chinese for
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I often hear people say, “I am learning Chinese. Is it OK to learn only how to speak? Chinese characters are too hard. ” Indeed, given the fact that there are more than 10,000 characters in Chinese, it seems to be a huge task to master them all. Plus, with the aid of Pinyin, a
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Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, had a half-an-hour talk in Tsinghua University in Beijing on Wednesday (Oct 22). He surprised and amazed the audience by having the talk in Mandarin Chinese! His tones were not perfect, but good enough to be understood. It is quite impressing. OK, why does Mark Zuckerberg learn Chinese? He
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This is an interesting video displaying Chinese characters describing Weather. Watch it carefully and see how many characters you can recognize!
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Photo Credit: quinnanya According to Dr. Sandi Ayaz, executive director of the National Tutoring Association, private tutoring in the U.S. alone has “exploded tenfold” over the past eight years. While some parents hire tutors to help their children overcome academic obstacles, other parents hire tutors to encourage and challenge their children in ways that might
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There are some good apps in iPad for creating mind maps. My favorite one is called Popplet. With some learning, even children at Kindergarten age can create good mind maps. HOW DOES IT WORK It is quite easy to use Popplet. Here are the basic steps: 1. Open the app and click on the banner
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Would like to share with you a very interesting infographic “The Hardest Languages to Learn”. According to this infographic, Spanish, Italian and French are easy to learn; Russian, Hindi and Greek and medium to lean; and Chinese is among the top 4 most difficult languages to learn! There are many factors determining how hard a
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