Ni Hao!
Among my Chinese family, I am called Mei Mei (pronounced May May) which, affectionately, means "little sister". My American friends call me Jan.
I grew up in the United States (US) and I love our US heritage and history. At home, I spoke mainly in Cantonese and some Mandarin. Throughout my childhood, I ate mostly Chinese food and had the occasional Happy Meal.
When I began to home educate my children, I wanted them to learn Mandarin Chinese, so I learned the Mandarin dialect with them by hiring a Beijing born Mandarin speaking tutor who taught using traditional Chinese textbooks and traditional methods toward second language acquisition (vocabulary-grammar-translation method). She taught my children Mandarin for the past 10 years and I learned with them.
Concurrently, I worked with my children using a second language learning method called the Guoin Series Method. It was clearly evident to me that the Guoin Series Method was far more effective than the traditional approach to learning how to speak and use the target Mandarin language immediately. The traditional Mandarin Chinese instruction my children received relied on memorization of long list of vocabulary words, translating them as well studying Mandarin Chinese grammar. Rarely did they use their Mandarin conversations acquired from their traditional Mandarin language instruction and it was not natural for them to use their Mandarin Chinese outside of their formal instruction time UNLESS I intentionally spoke to them in Mandarin, which, we did regularly.
However, when I taught my children using the Guoin Series Method, my children used their newly learned Mandarin words and sentences beyond their (short) lesson time. They carried the Mandarin words and sentences speaking spontaneously in Mandarin the words they just acquired during their Mandarin Guoin Series Method lesson time with me.
Consequently, I have taught conversational group Mandarin Chinese lessons to non-native home school students of various ages and grades using the Guoin Series Method while also exposing folks to the Chinese culture and Chinese cuisine.
Thank you for visiting my website.
Jan - [email protected]
Among my Chinese family, I am called Mei Mei (pronounced May May) which, affectionately, means "little sister". My American friends call me Jan.
I grew up in the United States (US) and I love our US heritage and history. At home, I spoke mainly in Cantonese and some Mandarin. Throughout my childhood, I ate mostly Chinese food and had the occasional Happy Meal.
When I began to home educate my children, I wanted them to learn Mandarin Chinese, so I learned the Mandarin dialect with them by hiring a Beijing born Mandarin speaking tutor who taught using traditional Chinese textbooks and traditional methods toward second language acquisition (vocabulary-grammar-translation method). She taught my children Mandarin for the past 10 years and I learned with them.
Concurrently, I worked with my children using a second language learning method called the Guoin Series Method. It was clearly evident to me that the Guoin Series Method was far more effective than the traditional approach to learning how to speak and use the target Mandarin language immediately. The traditional Mandarin Chinese instruction my children received relied on memorization of long list of vocabulary words, translating them as well studying Mandarin Chinese grammar. Rarely did they use their Mandarin conversations acquired from their traditional Mandarin language instruction and it was not natural for them to use their Mandarin Chinese outside of their formal instruction time UNLESS I intentionally spoke to them in Mandarin, which, we did regularly.
However, when I taught my children using the Guoin Series Method, my children used their newly learned Mandarin words and sentences beyond their (short) lesson time. They carried the Mandarin words and sentences speaking spontaneously in Mandarin the words they just acquired during their Mandarin Guoin Series Method lesson time with me.
Consequently, I have taught conversational group Mandarin Chinese lessons to non-native home school students of various ages and grades using the Guoin Series Method while also exposing folks to the Chinese culture and Chinese cuisine.
Thank you for visiting my website.
Jan - [email protected]
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