NCSCSL1-Tianyi

Hi everyone, You need to attend the final exam on Nov. 23rd, before the vacation of Thanksgiving. This semester we learned from chapter 11 My Pets to the last chapter My Room so that our test range includes these chapters. You also need to review the words related to colors. I'd already introduce the structure of this test in class. The first part is multiple choices. You need to choose the most suitable answer from the following four options. The second part requires you to use pinyin to spell the name of each item according to the following pictures. The third part is about circling the radical of each character and the fourth part needs you to use words, phrases, or sentences to describe a picture. The fifth part requires you to write a short essay related to your home and your room. You need to pay more attention to the last part: make a conversation with your partner. Before this test, you should find a partner and practice with him or her. You can pick whatever you want t

Hi everyone, Last Saturday we learned chapter 16 My Room, including the key words, the text, radicals, and prefix and suffix in Chinese. Please remember to review all of these before next Saturday. Next week, we will continue watching the YouTube video and discussing the differences between traditional Chinese and western furniture. Homework: Please finish the exercises on the workbook (Page 124-128) and don't forget to bring your homework next class! For some students who do not have the workbook, I attached the scan document here. Thank you! For those students who were absent several times, please remember to check my blog and use the online tools to do self-learning to catch up with other classmates! Looking forward to seeing you next Saturday!  

Hello everyone! Last Saturday we reviewed the chapter 14 My stationary and started to learn chapter 15 My house. Since you did not have homework for nearly three weeks, I want you to complete the homework for chapter 14 and 15 this time. Some of you were absent on October 5th, so I highly recommend you to utilize the following links to learn the vocabulary and text in chapter 14 independently. If you have some questions, do not hesitate to email me or bring your questions to the next class. Next Saturday we will celebrate Halloween. Although we will not attend the trick or treat activity with other classes on the first floor (most of them are little babies), I still want to encourage you to bring some candies or dress up next week! Besides, last week most of you told me that you want to learn some words related to Halloween so that next class, we will not only focus on learning chapter 15 but also learning the new words, phrases or sentences about this festival. I also want to intr

Hi everyone, This week we finished learning chapter 12 and started to learn chapter 13: fast food. The activities in class reflected that some of you are not familiar with words about color, fruit, or vegetables. Please use the textbook and your own notebook to strengthen your memory. Next class, we will still learn chapter 13. You also need to review the new words about various kinds of fast food we learned in class. Homework: Since some students do not have exercise book, I will attached the scan document in my email. Please remember to complete your homework and bring it to class next Saturday. Exercise book: page 100-103. Some students were absent this Saturday. You need to do extra work to catch up with other students. You can use the following resources to learn the new knowledge. Announcement: The storytelling contest will be held on 10/19. If you are interested in attending this activity, please start to prepare for it soon! If you have any questions, do not hes

Hi everyone, We learned chapter 12 fruit and vegetables and the background knowledge about the development of radicals and characters this Saturday. Do you still remember the differences between monosyllable and two-syllable words? Which one is more popular in modern Mandarin Chinese? Also, Irene came to our class and taught four tones and new words. In the next class, we will continue watching the YouTube video about the silk road first. Then, some new words about fruit and vegetables will be introduced in the next part. Finally, I hope all of you can use the sentence pattern and new words to create your daily recipe. If possible, please remember to bring your color pencils to class so that you can make your recipe look colorful and fancy. After creating the recipe, you will be invited to do a short presentation and introduce how to implement your healthy diet to the whole class. Homework: Please think about the following question and write down your answer in a piece of paper.

Hi everyone, We reviewed previous knowledge about pets and learned new content including the definition of radicals, how to use and find radicals, the differences between unaspirated and aspirated consonants, and how to use gesture to correctly pronounce the pinyin. Please remember to review these knowledge at home to prepare for a quiz at the beginning of the next class (9/7). Please remember that we do not have class next Saturday (8/31). Homework: Complete the exercise on workbook (page 85-88 except exercise 11) and bring your homework to class (9/7). In case some students do not have workbook, I attached the scan document via email.  This is the link of a YouTube video we watched in class (about different categories of radicals). Please watch it again and try to memorize these radicals as much as possible.  The new students need to do extra homework. Here are the YouTube videos. 

Hello everyone, Thank you for attending my class today. Today we learned animal words, how to introduce your pets, and how to describe the appearance of them. Based on your feedback, next class I will introduce the definition, historical development and meaning of radicals to all of you. Also, we will continue learning the chapter 11 next week. Before learning new content, we will do a quiz to examine whether you have reviewed the previous knowledge after class. The students who are new here need to complete extra homework to catch up with other classmates. Also, extra quiz would be given to these new students. Homework: For all the students: complete the exercise book (p80-83) For the new students: watch videos on Youtube Watch the video Why Mandarin Chinese is easy to learn so that you can understand the characteristics of Mandarin Chinese and the differences between two language systems  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOEWadftWHA   What is Pinyin & How Does it Help

Hello everyone, Greetings from Tianyi, a second-year graduate student from Vanderbilt Peabody college. Thank you for enrolling in Nashville Chinese School and coming to my class in the new semester. During this semester, I hope all of you will actively engage in my class. Although you are here for learning Mandarin Chinese, our target is not limited to the language itself. We will not only focus on improving our language proficiency, but also having a deeper understanding of Chinese traditional cultures and philosophies. In this process, we will explore the historical development and background knowledge of each radical and character together. Also, if some of you are interested in Chinese calligraphy or painting, we could talk more about these topics in class or after class. The syllabus for this semester has been posted by email. This is just th first draft of our syllabus because the specific contents would be adjusted according to your interests and learning progress. If yo