Jianjun’s Blog

This weekend, I have been thinking maybe it’s possible to teach some simple but useful spoken Chinese online, via Podcast or Videocast, right here!

Most of the visitors coming to my blog are from outside China. And a majority of them are from search engines looking for Chinese language/culture related information. I have to say that, to some extent, my blog has disappointed a few of them, as there is really little information here about those things at present stage and I have a ‘bad’ habit of writing everything I like in my blog, without an obvious theme. If it were not the electronic media age, I could have wasted too much paper.

So I guess it’d be a good idea to put some ‘themed’ show on this blog, on a weekly basis or even more frequently later on. I don’t want to teach formal grammar or how to write Chinese characters, although I may cover some of them in the future when the program progresses. I probably will concentrate on everyday conversations, such as ‘Hello.’ ‘How are you?’ ‘How can I get to A street?’, etc.

Teaching Chinese in English is challenging for me as I have to use clear English to explain sometimes very abstract ideas. And translation from Chinese into accurate English is also very important. Another concern is that I have to host it as a solo show. Ah…. Talking all by myself. Could be boring if the program is too long. How about just 5 minutes? If used efficiently, 5 minutes can teach one or two sentences. But anyway, I’ll give it a try. I had been teaching English in high schools for 7 years. I’ll sure put that experience into use.

I will let you know when the first show is ready. If you have any input, please leave a comment or shoot me an E-mail. I appreciate your help.

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