Learning Mandarin Can “Fun Stuff” Really Be Helpful for Learning Chinese and Chinese Culture?

lilysmile posted on May 05, 2010 at 08:19AM
Alice, a Chinese teacher from Phoenix, Arizona, has recently found that her students’ interest in learning Chinese has increased substantially. Occasionally, students can even carry a conversation or make a joke in Chinese. Ever since Alice taught these students Chinese, they hadn’t shown much interest in learning it. Alice has been looking at a lot of Chinese language resources on the web that could be fun to teach or learn, and one of them was “Fun Stuff” provided by eChineseLearning, (www.eChineseLearning.com).” “This is something like “Just for Laughs” TV shows. But what’s different is that “Fun Stuff” not only has funny videos, but also has the explanations for the Chinese content.” Alice said, “In this way, students can learn Chinese while having so much fun. It’s really an interesting way of learning.” ”We try to select topics as appealing and diversified as possible.” says Ms. Chen Xiaoyu, an editor of “Fun Stuff.” “Our objective is to help our readers learn as much Chinese language as possible and get to know the Chinese culture while enjoying the learning process.” But can “Fun Stuff” really be helpful for students learning traditional Chinese culture? Some students questioned: “They are just something very funny. Can they involve the deep Chinese traditional culture?” Ms. Chen commented: “It’s normal to have such doubts, but we have our strict principles when selecting the videos and learning content. We have been trying our best to get Chinese traditional culture involved. Recently, we have featured Beijing Opera, Chinese Kungfu, Chinese stilts, etc.” One-on-one online live (not pre-recorded) Chinese lessons with professional and native Chinese teachers, Jennifer Zhu More Chinese Answers,Entering : link

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