Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Yingzi Lixing
Ms. Marlowe
Expo R/W P 1
1 December 2017
Works Cited
chinese-learners-make. Accessed 30 Nov. 2017. In this article, Fang shows the common
mistakes that Chinese learners make through their study process. According to her
students's mistakes about Chinese in daily life, she lists the different mistakes that
Chinese learners might make in speaking and reading. Fang compare the similar
pronunciations that new Chinese learners confuse about and mix up, they speak another
words when they want to express a totally different meaning. The wrong tones also make
different meaning which can change a statement into a question or turn a noun into a
verb. In the reading, people sometimes can't recognize some words because they are too
similar. She indicates that the most mistakes that Chinese learners make is that they can
not recognize the different words in both reading and speaking. This article lists a lot of
examples about the wrong recognition, it will help me to be careful about those words
and emphasize those problems in my teaching video, so that people can avoid or reduce
the mistakes.
GOABROAD WRITING TEAM. "10 Best Ways to Learn a New Language." Goaboard,
a-new-language. Accessed 30 Nov. 2017. In this article, the author lists 10 ways that
most people use to learn a new language. By seeing how native speakers learn their
languages in their culture, he finds that the ways native speaker use to learn language are
also the best ways for multi-language people to learn. The author expound that watch
movies, make native friends, copy elementary schools kids, and be brave to show what
you learnt can help people to learn a new language. He urges that people need try to put
themselves in the new language environment and to communicate with native speakers,
so that they will regard themselves as native speakers and they will learn the new
language subconsciously even when they are not on purpose to do it. This article provides
the good ways to learn a new language, it will help me to give some good advices for the
people who will watch my teaching videos to learn Chinese faster and better.
Hua, Sara Lynn. "Why Learning Chinese Is the Next Big Thing." Tutorming Blog,
blog.tutorming.com/business/why-learning-chinese-is-the-next-big-thing. Accessed 28
Nov. 2017. In this article, Sara explain that why it's important to learn Chinese now and
in the future. According to the growing number of teaching and learning Chinese in the
world from 2011 to 2015, she examines the importance of Chinese in the life now and the
future. Sara exposes that China is the world’s largest exporter, many products especially
phones can only be produced in China. China is also a gateway into the Asian market
which have large number of customers and the Investors in China are seeking to invest in
overseas businesses. If you want to make money in China you need to learn Chinese to
communicate first. She urge people to study Chinese not only to be able to connect with
another culture, but to prepare themselves for the future. This article provide the reason
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why it's good to learn Chinese and the fact that more people start to learn Chinese, I can
the evolution of Chinese Characters which transform from pictures to the words in past
5000 years. After seeing the different images and marks on silk, wood, bamboo, bronzer,
oracle bones ands paper,she examines the differences about Chinese characters in every
period. Mark researches the Chinese characters in different dynasty to show the features
in every period. Ultimately, she finds that Chinese characters (the full sentence) started in
Shang Dynasty which was recorded on oracle bone (the Oracle Bone Script) and keep
evaluating to the Bronze Script, the Seal Script, the Lesser Seal Script, the Official Script
and Regular Script. This article shows the evolution of Chinese Characters, it help me
prove that Chinese writing developed from pictures of objects which represented
concepts to signs representing the concepts themselves. So I can let people understanding
Chinese characters more and help them to remember or write Chinese characters.
Taub, Orna. "6 Major Differences between English and Chinese." DigMandarin, 20 Jan.
2017, www.digmandarin.com/6-major-differences-between-english-and-chinese.html.
Accessed 30 Nov. 2017. In this article, Orna lists 6 major differences about sentences
between Chinese and English to help people see the differences between the two
comparing the Chinese sentences and English sentences' structures, he gets the
conclusion that Chinese prefer to use simple and short sentences instead of long and
complicated sentences based on grammar. Orna explains that English emphasizes the
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structure, use passive voice and abstract nouns often, while Chinese emphasize the
meaning and use active voice and concrete nouns often. In Chinese, idioms and short four
characters expressions are very widely used to make the expression more vivid and
compact, the words are generally not being omitted and instead may be repeated in order
to give the listener or reader clarity of what is being stated. He indicates that Chinese
emphasizes short and clear expressions so that the listener or reader will easily get the
accurate meaning of the idea expressed. This article provides original and reliable words
about two languages' differences, it help me explain in my video so that people can
understanding Chinese faster and avoid using English sentences’ structure to write
Chinese.