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Du Chinese is a powerful tool that makes learning Chinese simple and effective. Our built-in features let you practice your Chinese naturally, with assistance provided as you need it.

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Du Chinese is a website and app with chinese reading practice material that has pinyin, translations and professional audio readily available. Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced levels are all available.

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My Method for Learning Chinese Vocabulary

I developed my method after learning about the way my own brain works. As such, it may need to be modified slightly depending on the type of learner you are.

Based on this method of learning Chinese vocabulary, I am able to learn 20-30 words (often comprising of more than one character) per day in under an hour of study and with a retention rate of about 90-95%.

Not bad right? However, for it to actually work, you MUST do it every day or the process will fall apart.

The way it works is essentially by creating a maximum number of 'exposures' to the new vocabulary, spaced out over time, allowing the words to naturally move from short-term memory into long-term one by convincing the brain that the information is valuable, rather than passing stimuli to be discarded.

I believe that this repetition, coupled with the relatively stress-free context (in that I'm not forcing the words into my memory but relaxing and letting them enter naturally) is the key to its success.

Phase 1: Find a Source of Vocabulary

Although one can learn vocabulary from word lists or frequency lists, I prefer finding my own words in the material I'm studying because:

1. It Needs to Matter to You. Word lists can be overly extensive and it's easy to get carried away. I once tried learning all the HSK6 Chinese vocabulary words as fast as I could with Memrise only to realize I forgot many of the earlier words after devoting a couple months of time into it.

2. Context is Key. Finding words in context is a great aid to remembering them and in particular how they are used.

My main sources for finding words are the ChinesePod podcasts and TV shows that can be found on Youku.com. The benefit of TV shows is that they all have subtitles in Chinese characters, making words easy to identify and add to your list.

*Important*: For beginners, Chinese TV shows can be incredibly intimidating, so I would stick with ChinesePod until you are an upper-intermediate learner. Cartoons also work wonders for easy to comprehend content.

Phase 1 is to watch or listen attentively and look up and save the new words you hear with a tool like Skritter or Pleco flashcards. This is the first exposure.

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With many other languages this could be a difficult task, but due to the relatively small number of possible sounds in Chinese it is easier to identify new words you hear. (don't worry, you'll get better as you go along)

When I identify a new word, I open up Pleco and search in pinyin and choose the appropriate word according to what I heard and what makes sense in the context.

You can also reference the character in the subtitle, but try first to rely on your listening and your skills of guessing from context to figure out the appropriate word.

After this, you have a list of new words to learn.

Phase 2: Select and Create a Vocabulary List

From the saved words in Skritter or Pleco, I then open up an Excel notebook and write each character down, with the pinyin on the right, and the definition on the far right.

But wait...don't these apps keep the lists for you? Of course they do, but the objective here is to force yourself to see and write the words for yourself. Make them your Chinese vocabulary words.

Take your time writing down the new words as the goal is to learn them and not get them down on paper as fast as possible.
This is the second exposure.
Phase 3: Learn to Recognize the Chinese Characters

To learn the Chinese characters, I have found that it helps to understand why the character looks the way it does. What does each component within the character mean and what is its function? What is the correct stroke order?

That's where a tool like the Outlier-Dictionary has been fun for me. It has made learning Chinese characters easier and more memorable.

After you understand each character, go through the list and write out each character 15-20 times in a character workbook according to the appropriate stroke order. This can be tedious, but if you ask anyone in China how they learned to write characters, they will say through hard written repetition.

You should always use a character workbook over any standard notebook for the reason that the grids in character workbooks help you with ensuring each character you write is specific to the appropriate dimensions and size.

Many words will be easy especially when they contain a character I already know. I move on to the next character when I'm confident that I have sufficiently memorized the character.
This is the third exposure.
Phase 4: Learn to Write the Chinese Character

Next, I open up Skritter (a spaced-repetition flashcard software) and start reviewing the new words along those that I have learned previously. Skritter tests your recognition and recall memory respectively.

Find a time of day to where you will devote a block of time to doing Skritter repetitions. New words are learnt in an effortless and - dare I say - fun way.

Seriously, Skritter is my all-time favorite tool for learning to write Chinese and as soon as you try you'll understand why.

Do your best to avoid getting behind and skipping days on Skritter. As soon as you start skipping days, not only does the efficiency of the method decrease, but you start to slack off with your Chinese. So do it every day! Promise yourself!
This is the fourth exposure to your Chinese vocabulary words.
Phase 5: Learn How to Use Your Chinese Vocabulary

It's all very well and good to know that 礼貌 means manners or courtesy, but you need to get some more exposure to accurately and convincingly be able to use it yourself.

Firstly, if you mined the words from a particular podcast or TV episode, watch it again!

I also use ChinesePod's glossary - which is a fantastic tool for seeing words in their appropriate sentence context.

Another great way of getting sentences is to look up the word in Pleco and read the example sentences.

I've even used Google to identify how my Chinese vocabulary words are actually used, a method that has been surprisingly effective.

These sentences will provide numerous more exposures to the words in context as they come up when you're doing your Skritter repetitions

Phase 6: Refresh Your Chinese Vocabulary

Unless you're some sort of Chinese super-computer robot man/woman, you're unfortunately going to need to go back and relearn some of the Chinese vocabulary you have already learned.

The good news is that it is generally easy to identify early on which Chinese characters are going to be a struggle to remember.

When I'm learning my new words of the day with my trusty Excel and pen and pad combo, I also make sure I go back to the characters from the previous day or two to see if I've forgotten any (there are usually a few).

Then, I highlight them in yellow to designate that they may need some more writing practice before they will be committed to memory.

When I learn my new Chinese vocabulary words every day, I go back to the very start of my list and start with all the yellow words. If they cease to be hard (meaning that I can remember them with ease) I take away their yellow highlight.

I also make a point to go back over the words from the last week or so (or however far back I can be bothered going) and see whether there are words that I once found easy that I am now having trouble writing accurately. If I struggle recalling any from memory, I highlight them and add them to my daily list of words to review.

This way, very few words will slip through the cracks. Without a consistent refresh, you probably won't remember how to write the words forever.

However, if you don't care about writing characters and only want to learn to read them, you can ease up on the character refreshes as long as you maintain a daily habit of reading that is. Otherwise you'll forget them altogether.

Fortunately for characters that are forgotten, relearning is infinitely easier compared to learning the first time around.

The End - What's next?

Overall this method requires a great commitment of consistency. Yet if you are willing to put in a regular amount of time, you will see your knowledge of Chinese vocabulary steadily increase.

I encourage you to develop your own method similar to mine in order to drastically improve your Chinese vocabulary words.

I'll also point you to check out the page where I've curated my favorite Chinese learning tools, some of which I've mentioned here; others I haven't.

You can also incorporate this method of learning into a 30 day Chinese learning challenge. Give it a try and see how much you can improve your Chinese in a single month!

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Dan Poole

Dan is the original founder of Chinese-Breeze. Hailing from Melbourne, Dan started learning Chinese in university and spent a semester studying the language at Nanjing University.

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Best Ways to Learn Chinese Vocabulary in 2021

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When investing time into learning a language, you want to see quick and consistent results. Below I'd like to share my personal method for learning Chinese vocabulary - hopefully you can find it useful or modify it to suit your needs!

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Decipher Chinese. 1293 likes. Learn as you read. Free daily Chinese news app, designed for learners. AppStore: https://appsto.re/gb/4aqcG.i Google Play:...

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新冠疫情会永远改变大学教育吗？

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Learners learn languages in many different ways, such as attending language classes, playing games, or listening to audio. Whatever the methods are, they usually cover four aspects of language learning: reading, listening, speaking, and writing. Mastering only one or two of these is not enough because, in reality, we read, listen, speak, and write.

Some learners achieve rapid improvement in any combination of these aspects simultaneously and some other learners need more time to focus on each one at a time. I like to read and I always try my best to read every day in multiple languages, especially languages that I am seriously learning. My principle is that I need to practice reading and/ or writing more often when I do not practice much speaking and/ or listening. The purpose is to acquire a wider range of vocabulary.

Wikipedia has a list of multilingual news services, which comprises TV stations or newspapers that appear in various languages. That list might already give an abundant resource for reading practice, however, here I want to present some of my favorites and those not in Wikipedia's list.

Available in English, Polish, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Russian, Spanish, German, French, and many more.

Available in English, German, Arabic, Macedonian, Spanish, Malagasy, Russian, Bangla, and many more.

Available in French, Hausa, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Uzbek, Burmese, Chinese, Indonesian, Thai, and many more.

Available in Portuguese, English, Spanish, Chinese, Czech, Finnish, French, Greek, Dutch, and many more.

Available in Chinese, English, Russian, Japanese, and Korean.

Available in English, Japanese, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Korean, and German.

Available in Chinese, Albanian, Arabic, Belorussian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Cambodian, and many more.

Available in English, Malay, Chinese, and Tamil.

Available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, and French.

Do you have any favorite multilingual website that you use for reading practice? Share with us in the comments. If you like what you have just read, spread it out to your friends. Subscribe this blog to get updates in your inbox.

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When professionals, like pharmacists, are able to communicate in many languages, everyone benefits. AS Photo Studio/Shutterstock

South Africa is a multilingual, multicultural space. As is the case for many other countries in Africa, it has a number of official languages - 11.

Although the South African Constitution, other legislation and some policies promote the use and development of all 11 languages, this does not happen in practice. For instance, the country's courts operate with English as the sole and official language of record.

In higher education, too, English tends to be the dominant language. This is despite the fact that English is only the country's sixth most commonly spoken home language.

But the good news is that universities are becoming increasingly aware that they have an important role to play in ensuring that students do more than just graduate - they also need to be linguistically competent to work in sectors of society where the majority of people who access services can't speak English.

That's where vocation specific language courses come in. These focus on teaching students the words and phrases they need to interact with different people in the course of particular professional work. Cuba, for instance, provides this sort of vocation-specific language support for South African medical students training in that country.

These courses can encourage both linguistic and cultural awareness. They can equip students with the basics they need to communicate. For example, journalists, pharmacists or lawyers deal with clients from different linguistic backgrounds.

These courses have been introduced at a number of universities in South Africa. This hasn't been a universally accepted move. Some academics have argued that this approach "takes students off course" and distracts them from the key purpose of their degrees.

But there's a growing body of evidence that suggests these courses are working - and producing graduates who can function well in professional multilingual environments. These courses are valuable because they create citizens who are more aware of the backgrounds of the people they are dealing and living with.

The landscape today

Universities started developing vocation specific language courses in the decade after apartheid ended. The University of Cape Town was among the pioneers, introducing isiXhosa for medical students in 2004. In doing so, it recognised the need to equip students linguistically to work with patients who spoke this language, which is the country's second most common home language.

Today, the structure of vocation-specific language courses differs from university to university. They can be offered at both mother tongue and second language levels. They can be compulsory and credit bearing or offered as additional courses. They can be integrated into the mainstream curricula or they can be studied separately. All universities have language policies, which allow for these permutations.

For instance, at Rhodes University IsiXhosa for Journalism is compulsory. It is part of the journalism course and must be passed at the relevant level: mother tongue, if a student's home language is isiXhosa, and second language level if not. At the same institution, isiXhosa for Pharmacy is an elective and is integrated into the fourth year Pharmacy course. On average about 300 students a year complete these vocation specific language courses.

At the University of Cape Town, an IsiXhosa and Afrikaans course is integrated into the medical degree and must be passed. At the University of the Western Cape, there are isiXhosa courses for dentistry students.

The University of Limpopo has a bilingual Humanities degree. Half of the subjects are studied in Sesotho sa Leboa and the other half in English. Other institutions, among them North West University and the University of South Africa, are experimenting with Human Language Technology to create innovative language learning models. Human Language Technology is the interface of computer programming and language learning.

And the University of KwaZulu-Natal has taken a bold approach: students must learn isiZulu to graduate, no matter their degree.

All of these initiatives provide a valuable way to introduce more multilingualism to professional environments.

Criticism and challenges

The criticism that has been levelled at this approach suggests that it takes away time from mainstream, discipline-related teaching. It's also been suggested that, since the courses tend to be fairly short, they are ineffective.

But if such courses are properly integrated into curricula and are carefully planned and taught with care by qualified facilitators who understand bi- and multilingual models of language teaching then this need not be the case.

And the alternative is to continue producing students who are detached from their own heritage, or detached from society generally because they remain in a an unrealistic monolingual vacuum.

The work that South African universities are doing through their vocation-specific language courses is not perfect. But it represents the beginnings of transforming higher education at a fundamental level - a commitment to moving away from English as the only and "ideal" language for learning and engagement. There may be challenges, but these can be addressed as the courses develop.

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How South Africa's universities are making more students multilingual

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Between 2003 to 2015, multilingual students showed two to three times more progress in reading and math than students who speak English only. With this progress, the achievement gaps between multilingual students and their peers have narrowed substantially.

This new analysis we conducted of results from the National Assessment of Education Progress contradicts previous reports that academic progress has stalled for multilingual learners.

We make this observation as former teachers and researchers who have spent more than two decades focused on understanding the experiences of multilingual students.

Our findings not only show that multilingual students are learning more now than in the past, but they also suggest to us that schools and districts are serving these students more effectively.

Who are multilingual students?

Multilingual students include all students who speak a language other than English at home. About 1 in 5 children in the U.S. fall into this category.

Among multilingual students, one subgroup is English learners, who are not yet proficient in English. About 1 in 10 students in the U.S. is classified as an English learner.

A second subgroup is former English learners, who were not proficient in English when they entered school but have since developed English proficiency. No national data about the size of the former English learner population is available, but statewide data indicates that it's slightly smaller in size than the current English learner population.

Finally, the third and smallest subgroup of multilingual students are those who speak a language other than English at home but who were already proficient in English when they started school.

Why our findings differ

Past analyses of data from the National Assessment of Education Progress - better known as NAEP - have focused only on outcomes for students currently classified as English learners. However, this produces misleading conclusions. By definition, English learners are not yet proficient in listening, speaking, reading or writing English, and their language skills impact their scores on reading and math tests. Once students become proficient in English and are able to perform at higher levels on these tests, they are no longer considered English learners. In other words, as soon as a student gains mastery, she is moved out of the English learners group. This has led researchers William M. Saunders and David J. Marcelletti, among others, to argue that the achievement difference between current English learners and other students on reading and math tests is a " gap that can't go away."

As research in New York City, two large California districts and other states demonstrates, many English learners become proficient in English between the time they enter school and when they are given the NAEP in fourth and eighth grades. These analyses indicate that about 25 to 50 percent of students who enter kindergarten as English learners have been reclassified as former English learners before grade four. Seventy to 85 percent of such students have been reclassified as former English learners before grade eight.

Thus, the current English learner group in these grades consists of those students who - by definition - have relatively low English test scores, either because they have recently immigrated to the U.S. or have struggled to acquire English language and literacy skills in U.S. schools.

We suggest that districts and states should analyze combined outcomes for both current and former English learners, which we refer to as the Ever English Learner subgroup. We have shown graduation rates for the full group of Ever English learners are quite similar to rates for students never classified as English learners.

Analyzing outcomes for Ever English Learners is not currently possible with NAEP data. Instead, in our new analysis, we took the most similar approach we could, analyzing outcomes for all multilingual students, which consists primarily of current and former English learners. We define multilingual broadly to include students at different levels of proficiency in their multiple languages. Given our prior work, we were not surprised to find that NAEP trends for multilingual students as a whole looked different than trends for current English learners. We were, however, surprised, by the extent of the progress multilingual students had made, given that this group has been historically and chronically underserved.

What's behind the gains?

We cannot yet pinpoint the reasons why multilingual students have made such strong progress on NAEP. A variety of changes in education policy and practice have impacted multilingual students in recent years and may be related to these patterns. For example, the No Child Left Behind Act, which was implemented during the years we studied, may have increased attention to outcomes for English learners. In addition, these years also saw a rapid expansion of dual language immersion programs, in which multilingual students and monolingual English speakers learn alongside one another. Rigorous research has shown that these programs have positive effects on achievement for all students. In addition, many states have recently adopted new requirements for the preparation that teachers of English learners must have, and this additional preparation may increase teachers' effectiveness with English learners.

Multilingual students still encounter many barriers in U.S. schools, including often having bilingualism treated as a problem rather than a resource. Yet our research suggests that nonetheless, multilingual students are demonstrating strong gains in reading and math. Understanding the reasons behind these gains will be critical to making sure the progress continues.

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Multilingual learners doing better in US schools than previously thought

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Between 2003 to 2015, multilingual students showed two to three times more progress in reading and math than students who speak English only. With this progress, the achievement gaps between multilingual students and their peers have narrowed substantially.