体强 黄
A Chinese Teacher
NCTC ---- Neighboring Chinese & Teaching Chinese
NCTC was launched in September 2012. NCTC Mandarin adopts proven and unique Immersion Chinese Language Teaching Method(that integrates Direct Method and the Audio-Lingual Method)and takes Quaternity Teaching Strategies with a system of self-designed learning materials and resources.
Main characters:
Kevin HTQ is the co-founder of DaysEdu Productions, NCTC is an online Chinese teaching brand owned by DaysEdu. In China, 天天家塾 is a offline teaching brand owned by DaysEdu. Kevin has been involved education professionally for more than a decade. Kevin remains passionate about online education and the opportunities it affords virtually anyone in the world to better themselves through self-determination.
Doubly Tong(Chinese Language Teacher), an experienced Mandarin Chinese teacher living in Central China. She has been teaching Mandarin Chinese online and offline for around five years. Until now she has given over thousands of sessions of Chinese course and taught hundreds of students all over the world. She's proficient in teaching Chinese pronunciation, grammar, listening, speaking, writing and test preparation. She teach students in different levels and in all ages. She design courses according to each student's specific learning needs and use different teaching methods that facilitate students' learning. Besides knowledge transfer, she think a wonderful class should be full of interest, energy and challenge.
No.228, Binjiang East Road, Xunyang District, Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, P.R.China
332004
Reviews
Excellent association of bigrams at an early stage of learning Chinese. I rarely see that in a course. Thank you!
Not very interesting. Non interactivr
Edward Chapman
19-06-2023
This course is very interesting. At least I learn to memorize these basic numbers. ( Yi, er, san, si, wu, liu, gi, ba, jiu, and shi). What more can a student colleague request for, from the beginning of this immersion subject until the end of its final completion!
I think it is ok but could be better. I'd rather learn the name and spelling of objects, people and places than starting this way, so that word and associated picture stick better in the mind. Because it's so much to commit to memory and its hard to hold onto doing the very basics. Some people learn better "backwards" then forward so to speak. Also, seeing the written Chinese symbols grouped as words together is confusing and should be taught separate, once words and their meanings become more familiar.
Christophe Strobbe
16-06-2023
Although numbers are a basic topic, I am not convinced that the first video, which teaches the numbers 1-0, is the right way to start the course.
A learner who does not know the numbers 1-10 in Chinese probably does not know a number of other things:
* The basics of Chinese pronunciation (e.g. the q in 'qi'/ 七 and the j in 'jiu' / 九).
* Most of the other characters that are used in the definitions that are displayed on screen.
The course promised "immersion" (in its title); slides with definitions of words with their pronunciation do not constitute immersion but old-fashioned cramming.
The level or requirements for learners should be more clearly defined in the course description: e.g. knowledge of pronunciation, knowledge of pinyin, knowledge of basic conversational Chinese (without knowledge of characters?), ...? What is required at the start of the course and what is not?
After finishing section 3, it is not clear whether this course even has a didactic concept. Section 3 has three videos with content from an American TV show and Chinese songs. The Chinese texts in these videos have neither pinyin nor a translation and are much too difficult for learners who have completed the previous sections of the course.
It is not clear what lecture 12 is for. It is a Chinese song that is played over a series of slides that also contain Chinese characters, but the Chinese text does not represent the song's lyrics. The lyrics are not available, neither as Hanzi nor as pinyin, so it is not clear what learning effect this should have.
(The songs by the Rolling Stones and Lou Reed in earlier parts of the course are also irrelevant and possibly even copyright infringements.)
Excellent intro to Chinese