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eChineselearning.com - I recommend my school if you would like to learn spoken Chinese
Hi,
I've been attending echineselearning.com in Beijing for the last month and I thought would post here because I think they are very good and worth checking out. I would highly recommend them if you are interested in learning correct spoken Chinese.
Each class has only 4 students and essentially their system is based on much (much!!!!!)Repetition of phrases based upon chapters from various different textbooks (e.g. Conversation 301, the Short-term <a href="http://www.echineselearning.com/resources/speak-chinese/index.html">Spoken Chinese</a> series amongst others).
I spoke with owner of the school once and basically he told me that when he decided to start the school he didn't really know what the best <a href="http://www.echineselearning.com/about-us/teaching-method.html">Chinese teaching method</a> to use was. So what he did was hire some respected language professors from Harvard and Princeton to do some consulting. They ended up constructing a curriculum where essentially for 3 hours every day you learn a list of vocabulary from a hand-out (in my classes we do on chapter every two days, every fifth day we revise the pervious 4 days phrases) and then repeat simple phrases after the teacher over and over again using the vocal form the lists. Afterwards you ask and answer you classmates’ similar phrases using the same word(s). The teachers are fairly strict with pronunciation and tones.
I've been attending echineselearning.com in Beijing for the last month and I thought would post here because I think they are very good and worth checking out. I would highly recommend them if you are interested in learning correct spoken Chinese.
Each class has only 4 students and essentially their system is based on much (much!!!!!)Repetition of phrases based upon chapters from various different textbooks (e.g. Conversation 301, the Short-term <a href="http://www.echineselearning.com/resources/speak-chinese/index.html">Spoken Chinese</a> series amongst others).
I spoke with owner of the school once and basically he told me that when he decided to start the school he didn't really know what the best <a href="http://www.echineselearning.com/about-us/teaching-method.html">Chinese teaching method</a> to use was. So what he did was hire some respected language professors from Harvard and Princeton to do some consulting. They ended up constructing a curriculum where essentially for 3 hours every day you learn a list of vocabulary from a hand-out (in my classes we do on chapter every two days, every fifth day we revise the pervious 4 days phrases) and then repeat simple phrases after the teacher over and over again using the vocal form the lists. Afterwards you ask and answer you classmates’ similar phrases using the same word(s). The teachers are fairly strict with pronunciation and tones.
2009年2月2日 06:32
