Jump to content
Chinese-Forums
  • Sign Up

Confucius Institute Online's "Live Class"


msittig

Recommended Posts

Ha, interesting. I'm about to watch a Cooking and Chinese class

http://liveclass.chinesecio.com/Public/classInfo.html?id=101416

Woah, you're not wrong about the audio....ah man, he's getting food all over his keyboard...ok, think I might move on...idioms one seems to be some guy reading out slides about idioms. 

 

This is an interesting idea, but I'm not sure the execution is ideal. Anyone hit any better classes?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Found an HSK5 practice class by a teacher named 冯雪 which is better - it's a bit like sitting in a Chinese university classroom, rather than getting a full multimedia experience, but I can see people getting value out of it. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I had a quick look and, while I think the idea is great, the execution could be better. I don't understand why the supposedly "advanced" classes are not exclusively in Chinese; having slides that are mixed English and Chinese is hugely distracting to me. I end up just reading the English explanations and not learning much Chinese. Also, did anyone else have problems getting the audio to work?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

These are kind of fun. I watched one where the teacher was playing a clip from youku, then pausing and discussing chengyu that came up. It seemed to be a movie about 孙膑 being forced to write out his 兵法. The teacher explained 插翅难飞 and 故伎重演 while I was watching. Plus no one else participates, so you can ask questions and get the teacher's full attention.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

The sound quality is generally bad. With dome teachers it's much better than others though, I guess it depends on the microphone they ate using somewhat. The usefulness varies greatly from teacher to teacher and lesson to lesson. If you can find a good lesson series that matches your level I reckon you could learn quite a lot.

I recommend taking advantage of its interactiveness as OP suggests. Choose a Chinese name and say/type things. Some teachers will directly involve you and ask you questions when they realise that you are interacting with them. As very few others bother, you can learn a lot.

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 months later...

Do you want to learn Chinese for travel or for business or just as a hobby but you don't have enough time?Now you can learn Chinese with me online!
I am a experienced Chinese teacher and I teached Chinese abroad for one year.Now I am a teacher of Confutious Institute Online,a website established by Chinese government to help foreigners to learn Chinese.I teach Chinese culture,Chinese grammar,Chinese communication and HSK lessons everyday.If you want to learn Chinese,come to my website,and it's totally free!Yes,totally!
Here is the link,keep it,then you can find my classes!
http://liveclass.chinesecio.com/Public/classes.html?teacher_id=8296037
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to add my wechat or kakao account : nascency and here is my E-mail liushuo891@163.com.I hope I can help you!

post-60662-0-24141100-1427362747_thumb.png

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Thank you for moving my post to the right place, administrator.

There are many Chinese learners using this website, now.My online students come from Romania, Spain, Japan, Indonesia and other places.So, I came here to try to find some more foreign students.As you know, different students from different countries can make different practical faults because of the influnce of their mother languages.To contact more students from different countries can will allow me to understand their different characteristics and try to deal with them.

So if you know someone is learning Chinese and wants to study online, please recommend my class to him or her .  I will do my best to help him or her ^ ^.
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and select your username and password later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Click here to reply. Select text to quote.

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
×
  • Create New...