This post outlines two important differences between our courses and other learning products commonly found on the web.
Curricular completeness. First of all, our courses aim to form a complete suit with progressive and interconnecting units. Rather than littering the collection with disjointed one-shot lessons, our material form a complete whole – a series of step-by-step video-based instructional units that take a beginner beyond the highest level, progressing from HSK level 1 all the way to HSK level 6 and beyond. Such an integrated approach reassures the students that once they sign up with us they will be shown a clear path to success, thus saving them considerable amount of time and sparing them a great deal of anxiety.
Granted, to be successful in acquiring Chinese as a second language, a learner need much more than a set of courses. Learners must be willing to make use of a variety of resources and expose themselves to large amounts of the target language through reading and listening. Nevertheless, our courses as they form the "backbone" to their learning effort as they provide a structure upon which they can base their learning on. Learners will find unparalleled success if they take our courses in conjunction with the vast array of external learning options.
Step-by-step grammar instruction. Second, our courses put the spotlight on what many students struggle with – grammar. Without proper knowledge of grammar, learners cannot accurately understand what they read or listen. In this regard, dictionaries are not particularly helpful because they do not explain sentence formation, at least not in a way that is clear to students at varying levels. Learning sentence formation is especially critical at the beginning stages where learners are utterly oblivious of even the most basic sentence patterns. As a result, many learners often resort to "guessing" by applying English grammar to Chinese sentences and misconstrue their meaning. Therefore, in order to learn Chinese effectively, grammar should not be overlooked.
Some resist the idea of explicitly learning grammar in favor of more natural, input-based approaches. To some extent, we agree with them. Grammar lessons alone cannot teach the student all the nuances of Chinese sentence formation because large amounts of comprehensible input is also important. Nevertheless, input is only meaningful if they are understood. If learners are never taught grammar, how can they possibly understand sentences that use structures entirely unfamiliar to them? It is obvious that some grammar must be made familiar to the students especially at the beginning stages. Our grammar instruction strives to simple and clear with ample examples so that the learner can form sentences correctly although they may not fully aware of grammatical terms.
We hope these courses offer a meaningful contribution to the Chinese learning community.
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