ECHO Mandarin Chinese 2Teacher: Ed Nace; [email protected]
Ages: 8th-12th
Prerequisites: Chinese 1
Tuition: $35/month
Copy & Supply Fee: $30 per semester. Bring a notebook and pen.
Keep building! The goal of Chinese 2 is for students to continue adding to their langauge skills (vocabulary and sentence types), with our goal always be become able to understand and speak Chinese with real people!
Students who took Chinese 1 will already have a good foundation in pronunciation, tones, basic interactions, vocabulary, and sentence structure. They have already achieved good, natural pronunciation, which is a big deal! Chinese 2 begins to add more describing skills (adjectives, etc.) by learning to use words to describe pictures, videos, situations, and people. We will delve more into the fun and useful process of story-telling.
Teaching Method: Every class is extremely interactive. Our two basic rules are “Everyone Must Participate!” and “Don’t Make Fun. Only Encourage.” Active participation in class is vital. This is not a “textbook” language course. We will all be speaking Chinese to each other and practicing a lot.
Chinese Characters?? (If you want to.) This is primarily a course in conversational Chinese. Listening and Speaking, as the foundation for Reading and Writing, are the main goals in Chinese 1. I will definitely introduce reading and writing characters. I can also give homework and guidance to students who want to do this. But it will not become a real focus until more advanced classes.
Homework: I will assign audio recordings, sentence translations and other exercises to help them practice during the week.
About the Instructor: My family and I spent 8 years in East Asia. I became fluent in Mandarin Chinese through intense study, yes, but also through using itin day to day life. My team and I opened a business. We took the practical on-the-street language-learning principles we used to learn Chinese and adapted them into the successful “Awesome English!” curriculum that impacted many students in schools in our province. After returning to the U.S. in 2017, I spent thousands of hours tutoring Chinese kids, seeing them go from Zero to Good English. During that time I began doing free written translations for other ESL teachers, which resulted in quite an online following. I then wrote three ebooks on ESL and Chinese culture, and sold thousands of copies through word of mouth. I love this stuff!
Ages: 8th-12th
Prerequisites: Chinese 1
Tuition: $35/month
Copy & Supply Fee: $30 per semester. Bring a notebook and pen.
Keep building! The goal of Chinese 2 is for students to continue adding to their langauge skills (vocabulary and sentence types), with our goal always be become able to understand and speak Chinese with real people!
Students who took Chinese 1 will already have a good foundation in pronunciation, tones, basic interactions, vocabulary, and sentence structure. They have already achieved good, natural pronunciation, which is a big deal! Chinese 2 begins to add more describing skills (adjectives, etc.) by learning to use words to describe pictures, videos, situations, and people. We will delve more into the fun and useful process of story-telling.
Teaching Method: Every class is extremely interactive. Our two basic rules are “Everyone Must Participate!” and “Don’t Make Fun. Only Encourage.” Active participation in class is vital. This is not a “textbook” language course. We will all be speaking Chinese to each other and practicing a lot.
Chinese Characters?? (If you want to.) This is primarily a course in conversational Chinese. Listening and Speaking, as the foundation for Reading and Writing, are the main goals in Chinese 1. I will definitely introduce reading and writing characters. I can also give homework and guidance to students who want to do this. But it will not become a real focus until more advanced classes.
Homework: I will assign audio recordings, sentence translations and other exercises to help them practice during the week.
About the Instructor: My family and I spent 8 years in East Asia. I became fluent in Mandarin Chinese through intense study, yes, but also through using itin day to day life. My team and I opened a business. We took the practical on-the-street language-learning principles we used to learn Chinese and adapted them into the successful “Awesome English!” curriculum that impacted many students in schools in our province. After returning to the U.S. in 2017, I spent thousands of hours tutoring Chinese kids, seeing them go from Zero to Good English. During that time I began doing free written translations for other ESL teachers, which resulted in quite an online following. I then wrote three ebooks on ESL and Chinese culture, and sold thousands of copies through word of mouth. I love this stuff!
