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This is the first
time I have found a system of learning behind the seemingly incomprehensible,
non-alphabetical language
Dr. David Chong
I have enjoyed
the classes and found the story telling, the music and the native
speakers to be most useful. The suggestive element helped memorisation
and motivation
Ian Davidson
European Centre of Chinese Studies (ECCS)
(School of Chinese Languages in London)
OUR CLASSES
Chinese using Accelerated
Learning
A 10-week course of 2 hours each week full of fun and rapid learning.
What Students will
Learn
In this course participants will be taught how to write the commonly used Chinese radicals which still form the basis of modern Chinese writing. By mastering these radicals students will learn other ideographs more easily and how to use a Chinese/English dictionary more quickly. Students will also learn to converse in everyday situations. The approach used to teach writing reading and conversing is based wholly on accelerated learning principles.
Chinese Writing
Chinese writing has no alphabetical order
therefore it is difficult to remember the ideographs through
memorisation, since there are no sequential links connecting
them. There are 214 elementary pictographs that form the basis
of Chinese writing. These pictographs originated literally from
pictures drawn of objects, animals, phenomena of nature etc.
These pictures have changed over the years but many can be identified
from their original representations eg. The word for "human
being" is:
These pictographs evolved over
the centuries of Chinese civilisation into symbols that stand
for abstract ideas. Thus simple pictographs evolved further into
ideographs. Gradually ideographs were combined with a kind of
phonetic script to make new words. The Chinese language is constantly
evolving and there is an infinite number of words that can emerge
through the combinations of the 214 elementary pictographs called
'Chinese radicals'. Alternatively a new word can be formed by
combining two or more radicals. And this is only the beginning.
Such is the genius of Chinese writing.
What is Accelerated
Learning (Suggestopedia)?
Recognised by UNESCO as one of the best approaches for the teaching of a foreign language, accelerated learning or suggestopedia is the brainchild of Dr. Georgie Lozanov, a Bulgarian doctor and psychotherapist. When taught with suggestopedic methods, Dr. Lozanov's students' learning rate was five times greater compared to normal teaching methods.
Accelerated Learning is an integrated
system of learning which stresses that people learn better:-
- when combining their conscious and unconscious mind
- under conditions of relaxation, pleasure, fun, play & games
- when their self esteem is not threatened
- when their teachers are knowledgeable about the subject
- when the teacher uses a multi-sensory holistic approach (whole
brain)
Benefits of Accelerated
Learning
Accelerated Learning Techniques result in better retention and recall of materials. Students' confidence and motivation also increases as they learn.
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the way
Company Classes
We also specialise in in-house company classes (from 1 to 10 students). We can tailor our language courses to suit your corporate needs. It is more cost effective than you think!
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