Teaching Characters Online Using Zoom Whiteboard
Teaching Mandarin on Zoom should be engaging. Here are tips:
Use Clear Visuals: Display characters clearly with colorful highlights for better understanding.
Break Down Characters: Explain structure and meanings of components, like in 'love' (爱).
Demonstrate Stroke Order: Show writing order using animations or slow drawing for clarity.
Encourage Participation: Let students practice on their boards and share screens for feedback.
Incorporate Sound: Pronounce characters with tones and have students repeat for pronunciation improvement.
Utilize Tools: Use Zoom's annotation tools for collaboration and note-taking.
Assign Practice Exercises: Provide tasks post-lesson, encouraging sharing for feedback.
These strategies enhance the effectiveness of teaching Mandarin characters on Zoom.
Learning Mandarin for Beginners — Some reflections on get on to the Language quickly
Some reflection on my recent classes and my thinking about the importance of learning and recognising Chinese Characters from early on. This Blog also includes some strategies for remembering characters which I am currently putting into practice.
听(tīng)后(hòu)感(gǎn)-Review of A album/collection: On Concierto de Fin de Año 2021
Review of the album Concierto de Fin de Año 2021 in both Mandarin and English. The article also includes some keywords for Chinese learners.
Learning Mandarin: About Chinese Grammar from the viewpoint of 语文（yǔ wén）verse “Teaching Chinese as a Second Language”
Growing up in China, I have a subject called 语文（yǔ wén）which you can say is Chinese, but more, is Chinese for Chinese. When I was learning English, the hard bit that I came across was the time tense: the time tense in English is something that I tend to ignore. If you start learning Chinese already, you would know that in the Chinese language, we don’t conjugate the verb; thus, changing the tense can be so difficult for Chinese people. It is not something that is rooted in our language.
<3 I LOVE CHINESE <3 <3
<3 I LOVE CHINESE <3 <3
