Sinosplice has a new feature: Mandarin Chinese Tone Pair Drills. Users who have found that website’s content useful in the past should probably give it a look.
A while back, Ken did a series of posts on pronunciation. It became clear that the CPod poddies wanted more help. Ever since, we have been paying more attention […]
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Mandarin Chinese Tone Pair Drills
Published by October 29th, 2006 in Pedagogy, Learning Chinese, Community and Pronunciation. 18 CommentsThe last post on pronunciation - for now!
Published by August 1st, 2006 in About ChinesePod, Teaching Chinese as a Second Language (TCSL) and Pronunciation. 7 CommentsThe ultimate goal of ChinesePod instruction is ‘communicative competence’. Perfect grammar, perfect pronunciation (or perfect anything else) is not a realistic goal for the neophyte adult learner of Mandarin. With limited time and resources there’s always a trade-off in objectives – in this case, between perfect accuracy and a functioning communicative ability. We’ve designed ChinesePod […]
…a member of her chambers was in court one Monday morning when the judge said,
“I’m afraid we’ll have to adjourn the case. I’ve written my judgement out, but left it in my cottage in Devon and I can’t get it sent here until tomorrow.”
“Fax it up, my Lord”, the helpful barrister suggested, to which […]
Pronunciation 2: Clearing up some definitions
Published by July 26th, 2006 in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language (TCSL) and Pronunciation. 22 CommentsClearly, there is some confusion about some of the concepts in the first post. Let me clarify a couple of things:
- First of all, no one is arguing that poor pronunciation is good. Of course we must try to get every learner’s pronunciation right as early as possible. The question here is when […]
It’s time to start that discussion on pronunciation
Published by July 25th, 2006 in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language (TCSL) and Pronunciation. 43 CommentsIs pronunciation just physiology?
It seems to me that no area of language learning prompts as much debate and misunderstanings as pronunciation. I have a lot of ideas to share on the topic. So many, in fact, that I’ll have to break my ideas down into parts. Here is the first part.
Over the years, pronunciation […]
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