better Chinese teaching

[Guest guest]

Well, I am based in NH and Boston now, but I'd be happy to travel around

teaching courses, or even offer master seminars on how to teach for the

local instructors who live there and can teach afterward. Cramming it all

into a weekend is not as ideal as weekly or biweekly, but it can be

done. I keep the students very active and thinking on their feet

during class, so it isn't as overwhelming as just taking it all in by

lecture format.

Karla

 

At 11:32 PM 1/16/02 -0500, you wrote:

Karla -

 

Would you like to teach in Los Angeles?

 

Will

 

In a message dated 1/16/02 6:33:33 PM Pacific Standard Time,

karlarenaud writes:

 

After only six 2-hour classes, and with only

30 min per week of at-home

study, my students (who started with NO knowledge of Chinese at all):

 

-could pronounce all sounds properly using pinyin romanization and the

four

tones

-could write down the proper pinyin when I said words (no mean feat)

 

-started writing Chinese characters so they would know how to analyze the

 

brushstroke order and the " radical " meaning components of

characters so

they could use a dictionary

-learned a significant amount of basic medical vocabulary which I

arranged

around common meaning radicals or themes to facilitate quicker study

 

-could use 3 common dictionary types (Chinese dictionaries are arranged

by

radicals or strokes or combinations)

-were introduced to selections from classical texts to see how it's

simple

and poetic (yet difficult to understand nuances)

 

 

 

 

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