Practical Chinese Textbook Series Stresses Conversation And Culture, Not Rote Learning

- July 16, 2010, 8:59 pm

Language lessons are expected to be droning lessons that focus on memorization of vocabulary. How practical is it to keep on memorizing individual words that you scarcely have an idea what context to use it for? Chinese, especially, is a special language that seems to have absolutely no similarity to English. When learning Chinese, you cant expect to get clues from root words that might be familiar to your own native language. Memorizing totally unfamiliar individual words may not be the best way to go about learning language, especially for bigger children. The Practical Chinese series of textbooks were written to answer to this specific

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