What is the different between teaching Chinese to kids and foreigner Today one of my language partner asked me :“Do you think you will like teaching adults ?”, I told him : “Teaching adults (foreigner) is full of challenges, but it's also worth doing that .” So now I am going to talk about the different between teaching kids and adults. I work for a public school in Foshan,I have 3 Chinese lessons a day on average, all I do in the class is teaching them Chinese characters,making sure they can read the texts fluently,and they can use the characters to make up words and sentences. It sounds like the same as what the foreigner will do when they trying to learn Chinese. But they are very different! 1、they have different learning goal Usually foreigners have specific goals and objectives,they know why they are learning Chinese, what level they want to reach in and how long will it takes to reach it. But kids studying Chinese because school arranges the Chinese course, they don’t learn it from interest. So I need to stimulate their interest in learning, but I need to keep adults’ interest in learning. 2、they have different language environment Language environment is very important for people to learn a language, that’s also the reason that I feel much easier to teach kids Chinese than teach foreigner. All the kids have had built Chinese language system before they went to primary school. So we can communicate in Chinese,I only need to fix those bugs of their system. But for foreigners,they have their own language system already. I need to help them to build a new one ,and help them to go through the contradictions between the two systems. That’s a big challenge! 3、kids and adults think differently Due to the difference in age,adults and kids have a large gap in thinking,So their cognitive ability are quite different. It’s easy for adults to learn those abstract grammar because they are much better in logic ,but this won’t happen to kids. Which means I use different classroom pattern. 4、they have different concentration People’s concentration span is limited,kids usually have a short span of concentration. So I will have a more efficiently lesson with foreigner, and I need to pay more attention to the behavior of kids . No matter who is the student,we are all having the Chinese lesson, so all I want is they can have a deep feeling for the beauty of the language .

What is the best way for you to learn a language systematically?

Chatting with a native speaker , finding a native speaker to be your friend ,it's a good way for us to learn a new language .  

You ,as a people who is learning a language systematically,what is the best way for you to learn it ？

What is the best way to start your language  studying？

What is the best way for you to learn Chinese systematically? C hatting with a native speaker , finding a native speaker to be your friend ,it's a good way for us to learn a new language . You ,as a people who is learning Chinese systematically,what is the best way for you to learn Chinese？ What is the best way to start your Chinese studying？

Diary 2016.11.21 Have you ever been annoyed by something before？ If yes you probably know how boring it can be. Recently, I am very lazy and little bit frastrated sometimes. To all things don’t have the interest. I have been this way since I had a nightmare. I had dreamed about my past time, some old friends who we lost contact. I thought we only dream of what we know,the reality. But I had dreamed he died...... I think it must because the stress keeps building up lately. I used to tell myself not to see things too seriously,make simple things to be too complicated, it looks like you will be very painful. But now I think I take every things too simple,I thought all my students would listen to their teacher. But the truth is some of them always ignore your teaching your advice. The troubles comes every day, they caused us to lose our heart,things gets really bad . Well I wish I can have some time to clam down and come back stronger.