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By Zhou Laoshi@Stuyvesant
By Zhou Laoshi
Learning Chinese:
周老师
Easy as a piece of cake or
Hard as nails
By Zhou Laoshi@Stuyvesant
Stuyvesant High School• Stuyvesant High School is one of
nine specialized high schools in New York City, United States.
• Stuy. has contributed to the education of several Nobel laureates and other accomplished alumni.
• Stuy. has had 2nd highest number of National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists.
By Zhou Laoshi@Stuyvesant
Students Body• Around 800 out of 28,000
are annually accepted at Stuyvesant.
• For the 2013 academic year, the student body was 72.31% Asian and 21.44% Caucasian, 1.03% African American and 2.34% Hispanic.
By Zhou Laoshi@Stuyvesant
Non-heritage Speakers are not at disadvantage.
• Reason 1: Many students speak Cantonese or Min Nan Dialect, which makes learning Pinyin challenging.
• Reason 2: Non-heritage speakers are often motivated to learn writing characters.
By Zhou Laoshi@Stuyvesant
Guess how many characters my beginner students can learn to write in
the first class?
• 2, 5, 10, or more?
By Zhou Laoshi@Stuyvesant
In my class, the answer is…
20
By Zhou Laoshi@Stuyvesant
Instead of teaching them writing characters, I teach them
drawing characters
By Zhou Laoshi@Stuyvesant
Chinese Characters are Living Symbols
By Zhou Laoshi@Stuyvesant
A Story In My Class
By Zhou Laoshi@Stuyvesant
Pinyin is even easier to learn, but powerful to use.
• Most of the pronunciation in Pinyin is similar to English, like: b, p, m, f, d, t, n, g, k, h.
• Within one month, mostly of my class (first year to learn Chinese) can read most of the Pinyin clearly.
By Zhou Laoshi@Stuyvesant
I show them mouth shape, as well as tongue position.
By Zhou Laoshi@Stuyvesant
Do not start with bo po mo fo
By Zhou Laoshi@Stuyvesant
As they learn more…The world gets more interesting:– Food– Culture– People– Countries– Career
By Zhou Laoshi@Stuyvesant
More Choices for Food• You can order a wider range of Chinese food in
Chinese restaurants in Chinatown and around world.
By Zhou Laoshi@Stuyvesant
Explore a Culture of thousands of years
Martial Art Acupuncture Calligraphy