If you want to teach a child a new language, it’s best to start before they are six years old because they can learn up to 14,000 words before they are six when they are spoken this language by their parents. If the parents only speak one language, this is where a language teacher can […]
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wǒ de gēshēng lǐ -You Exist in My Song 我 的 歌声 里 In today’s lesson, I would like you to learn some new words from a song that has been quite popular in China. In my opinion, you can pick up some new words from it quite easily. The singer is called Qu Wanting
ТРЕТИЙ УРОК (The third lesson) Read the words on the left and match them to their English equivalent on the right. 1) Чай а) coffee 2) Сахар б) milk 3) Кофе в) tea 4) Вино г) honey 5) Мёд д) sugar 6) Молоко е) wine 7) сыр ё) butter 8) масло
Hi everyone!!! How are you？ Today I would like to teach you how to answer some questions of our daily life in Chinese, for example, how to answer when people ask you” What do you like?””Where are you?”” What are you doing?” with a form of dialogue, which is very simple and useful. As usual,
Hi, everyone!! Today I would like to teach you how to ask some questions of our daily life which people usually use in Chinese. For instance: Where are you? What are you doing? What do you like? Generally, people like to ask these questions to start a conversation which means it is very useful
Hi, everyone! Today I would like to teach you some useful greetings in Chinese. For example, how to say ‘Good morning!’,’Good afternoon!’ and ‘Good evening!’, which are quite frequently used in our daily life. You can listen to the phrases in the podcast below. Good morning！ zǎo shàng hǎo zǎo shàng is morning hǎo
Today, I would like to teach you how to say ‘What’s your name?’, ‘You are really beautiful’ and ‘Would you like to be my friend?’ To some of you the second question would sound unusual because it’s not on many occasions in the UK we ask this question but in China it’s quite common among
Hello and Привет! This blog is for Russian learners. Today I want you to learn how to say ‘when’, ‘yesterday’, ‘today’ and ‘tomorrow’ in Russian because they are quite common in Russia. I’ll pronounce them and all you need to do is repeat after me. Here is the podcast The words are: Когда? When? [Kagda] Вчера (fchiRA) yesterday,
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Hello and Привет! This blog is for Russian learners. Today I want you to learn how to say ‘why’, ‘what for’ and ‘because’ in Russian because they are really commonly used in Russia. I’ll give you some examples, hopefully showing you the differences between WHY and WHAT FOR. So the words in question are:
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fullToday I wanted to look at why my students read slowly and what it can lead to. Also, I would like to suggest the ways of speeding up your reading. Firstly, let’s look at why some of my students at either a graduate or postgraduate level are still reading slowly. The reasons that I can
