Oral & pronunciation of Mandarin Chinese

Read on to see if this works for you /your schools  and/or to make sure you are up to date with the latest pedagogy changes.

Why online?

- You would like to have Chinese in your school but you’re remote from teachers/other schools teaching Chinese?

- You are a school that can’t justify, for whatever reasons, recruiting your own Mandarin teacher?

Want to understand more about the relationship between Mandarin Chinese as a tonal language, musical ability and ability to learn a language?

The following 3 articles look at these relationships. They all illustrate how learning Chinese is good for children’s brains as they add an additional dimension to other non-tonal languages:

- Learning Mandarin creates plasticity in brain because it is tonal language