Chinese is Easy to Learn
- 1. By Zhou Laoshi @Stuyvesant By Zhou Laoshi Learning Chinese: 周老师 Easy as a piece of cake or Hard as nails
- 2. By Zhou Laoshi @Stuyvesant Stuyvesant High School • Stuyvesant High School is one of nine specialized high schools in New York City, United States. • Stuy. has contributed to the education of several Nobel laureates and other accomplished alumni. • Stuy. has had 2nd highest number of National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists.
- 3. By Zhou Laoshi @Stuyvesant Students Body • Around 800 out of 28,000 are annually accepted at Stuyvesant. • For the 2013 academic year, the student body was 72.31% Asian and 21.44% Caucasian, 1.03% African American and 2.34% Hispanic.
- 4. By Zhou Laoshi @Stuyvesant Non-heritage Speakers are not at disadvantage. • Reason 1: Many students speak Cantonese or Min Nan Dialect, which makes learning Pinyin challenging. • Reason 2: Non-heritage speakers are often motivated to learn writing characters.
- 5. By Zhou Laoshi @Stuyvesant Guess how many characters my beginner students can learn to write in the first class? • 2, 5, 10, or more?
- 6. By Zhou Laoshi @Stuyvesant In my class, the answer is… 20
- 7. By Zhou Laoshi @Stuyvesant Instead of teaching them writing characters, I teach them drawing characters
- 8. By Zhou Laoshi @Stuyvesant Chinese Characters are Living Symbols
- 9. By Zhou Laoshi @Stuyvesant A Story In My Class
- 10. By Zhou Laoshi @Stuyvesant Pinyin is even easier to learn, but powerful to use. • Most of the pronunciation in Pinyin is similar to English, like: b, p, m, f, d, t, n, g, k, h. • Within one month, mostly of my class (first year to learn Chinese) can read most of the Pinyin clearly.
- 11. By Zhou Laoshi @Stuyvesant I show them mouth shape, as well as tongue position.
- 12. By Zhou Laoshi @Stuyvesant Do not start with bo po mo fo
- 13. By Zhou Laoshi @Stuyvesant As they learn more… The world gets more interesting: – Food – Culture – People – Countries – Career
- 14. By Zhou Laoshi @Stuyvesant More Choices for Food • You can order a wider range of Chinese food in Chinese restaurants in Chinatown and around world.
- 15. By Zhou Laoshi @Stuyvesant Explore a Culture of thousands of years Martial Art Acupuncture Calligraphy
Editor's Notes
- #16: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primarylanguages/mandarin/culture_and_places/art/