Learning Chinese in The Old Heart of China
About Learning Chinese • Foreign students studying in China: 190 thousand (2007) • 40 million people are learning Chinese, and the number is growing by 40% each year. • 100 million people will learn Chinese in 2010 • In Germany and France more than 200 high schools offer Chinese courses, in USA 600, and in Korea all schools • In Japan 2 million and in Korea 1 million people are learning Chinese • 2500 universities around the world offer Chinese courses • There will be a need of 4-5 million Chinese teachers
Learning Chinese in the Old Heart of China
Chinese Culture
.In Peking you can only find the branches of the tree
Chinese Culture
In Peking you can only find the branches of the tree,but in Xi’an you can find the ROOTS.
One of the 4 Oldest Cities in the World
Learning Chinese in the Old Heart of China
Xi’an – A City for History
Xi’an – A City for Nature
Xi’an- A City for Education
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The most number of schools and universities in China More than 60 universities More than one million students 5 of the ten largest private universities in China
Xi’an - A City for Culture
Xi’an - A City for the Modern
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One of the four best industrial zones in China Unique Agricultural High-Tech Industry Base Top Asian Aeronautics City “GO WEST” politicy
Xi’an – A City for Delicacies
Xi’an – A City for Shopping (nice and cheap)
Xi’an – A City for Life
About IH Xi’an
International House World Organisation Chinese as a foreign language centre Teacher Training Center for Chinese
Our Location
School Building
Reception
Library
Classrooms
Terrace
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Multifunction Room
Life at School
Our Lessons
Culture Programs
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Our Chinese teachers
Our Students
Why us? • 1. IHWO Chinese as a foreign language centre and teacher training center • 2. Modern teaching methods and high quality education • 3. Experienced team of teachers – we ourselves teach teachers! • 4. One of the world's most famous cities – Xi’an • 5. The interesting culture courses and activities • 6. Teaching according to the student's needs • 7. The open and friendly atmosphere • 8. The good studying environment • 9. The best service • 10. The renowned Partners
What We Offer • Foreign languages – – – – – – – – –
English German Spanish Italian French Russian Korean Japanese ……
• Very easy for students to find language partners
What We Offer • Chinese as a foreign language – – – – – – – – – – – – –
Standard and intensive Chinese courses One to one Chinese course Happy Summer Camp Learn Chinese along the Silk Road Chinese course + Culture course (Calligraphy, Tai Chi, traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese cooking…) Chinese course + internship programme Chinese course + Business course Chinese course + University Study in China Chinese course + Martial Arts (Kung Fu) Language trip to western China Chinese for 50+ Chinese for Travelling Chinese as a Foreign Language Teacher Training Course
Learn Chinese along the Silk Road
Learn Chinese along the Silk Road
Happy Summer Camp
Happy Summer Camp
Business and Internship
Our Online Course (NEW)
50 lessons for free!
Chinese + Lose Weight P Program(NEW) • • • •
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About Learning Chinese The problems: • The methods of learning Chinese are not very well developed. This is a world wide problem. • Most schools and universities teach Chinese in the old methods of Confucius. • A lot of students are unsatisfied with the lessons. They say, it is not possible to learn the Chinese language even with five years' time.
About Learning Chinese
The old methods of Confucius –
“The teacher speaks, the students listen.” -what this means: I will give you
one hundred characters, and you must memorize them!
Our New Method
Chinese is a wonderful and simple language
Learning Chinese with a System • Oral Chinese • Chinese Characters
Oral Chinese • • • •
International House method Experiment teachers Teacher seminars and workshops Observation
Oral Chinese Outdoors program
Oral Chinese Tandem Partner • English • German • French • Italian • Spanish • Russian
Oral Chinese • The student is able to understand and speak basic Chinese within just two weeks. • After three months, the student will be able to find him-/herself through in the Chinese world, asking for the way, buying tickets or goods at the market, and having simple conversations in Chinese. • The main goal is to understand and to speak before he/she is able to write.
Chinese Characters
Chinese Characters • 1994 <Zhong Hua Dictionary> 85,000 Chinese Characters • Chinese students can read 3000 Chinese characters • HSK “Level1”- 1604 Characters, 3051 words • New vocabulary: 555, MM, 88…
Chinese Characters Chinese Characters are very logical.
Code of Chinese Characters
Chinese Characters Our method First Step • We teach 300 characters, Divided into groups like: animals, plants, body parts, relationship between the two sexes, weapons etc. • We explain every character from its origins , with the very beginning of the invention of Chinese characters, the Jia Gu Wen. • Then the bronze characters (Jinshu), the Seal script (Zhuànshu) to the traditional and simplified characters. We teach students how to recognize and understand all 300 of them.
Chinese Characters â&#x20AC;˘ Jia Gu Wen (ancient Chinese characters engraved onto bones or tortoise shells)
Chinese Characters Second Step â&#x20AC;˘ We teach 16 methods in connecting those parts to new characters â&#x20AC;˘ So the student will be able to analyze the characters by himself, and not have any problems in reading traditional characters in Hong Kong or Taiwan, not to mention the signs in museums or restaurants, etc.
Chinese Characters For example: Right and left • •
These two characters are the easy drawings of a left and a right hand: Later, it was more convenient to add something to differ the two more easily, so we have: We added a mouth to the right hand, to describe that this is the “clean” hand which we use to eat. To the left hand we added a mortar as a symbol for “work”, so this is the “ugly”, the dirty hand which we use for other purposes. Here we are: 左 zuo3 and 右 you4. If we take the right hand which is fetching something, it will look like so If we combine it with a left hand, we get the character for friendship 友 (you3): one hand grasping another one.
左
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手
右 友
Chinese Characters In the beginning we train our students to recongize the characters not to write.
BUT Later â&#x20AC;Ś
Chinese Characters â&#x20AC;˘ Write Chinese SMS
Chinese Characters â&#x20AC;˘ Write Chinese on the computer
Chinese Characters Begin to write, but - with the brush
Calligraphy
Chinese Characters â&#x20AC;˘ After nine months the student is able to read more than 3,000 characters. This means reading newspapers, simple articles, signs, advertisements, etc. He/she is able to analyse new characters, and has a very good foundation to go further deeper into the Chinese language.
We offer: • the most effective Chinese lessons with the best quality • good commission • the best service for students • you can now also get a 50 hours free online course • long term visa (six months, one year…) • and much much more…
Welcome to Xi’an, study Chinese at International House Xi’an! contact : Mr. Peng Su supeng@ihxian.com info @ihxian.com