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Frequent Asked Questions
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What is Chinese Family?
Chinese family is a world-class content provider in Oral Chinese Teaching. This set of multimedia interactive materials, which is specially designed for westerners, provides kinds of animations, videos, sounds and documents for learners of different ages and levels to download. Learners learn Chinese anytime and anywhere. -
What kind of people can study Chinese Family?
It fits anyone without any Chinese basic or not good at spoken Chinese. -
How long will it take to finish the whole learning process? Which level will it be achieved?
Depending on a learner’s ability, it will take 1-2 months………Communication in spoken Chinese will be made after learning. -
Is it difficult to learn Chinese Family?
It’s very simple to learn it. You only need to learn it step by step according to the requirement of the syllabus. Self-learning is also OK. -
Is it possible to download Chinese Family lessons?
The highlight of Chinese Family is to support lesson download. MP4 video courseware is provided as well as MP3 and PDF courses.(PSP\NDSL\ IPod\cell phone) -
What languages can be supported by Chinese Family teaching system?
It can support English, Japanese and Korean since now. -
What’s “my course”?
Every registered user will have his own “my course”. You can see your learning conditions, courseware using conditions etc. here. -
Is there a time limit for using after purchase?
There is no time limit for a downloaded courseware, but it mustn’t be copied. -
Why can’t the Flash be played on the web?
Perhaps it has something to do with your IE configuration. A flash movie can’t be played after installing the flash player.
Flash movies do not appear after installing the Flash Player
Download the Flash Player standalone installer (514 KB)Please find the item: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility
Delete the following items from it:
{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000}
{D3f97240-C9f4-11CF-BFCr-00A0C90-00A0C90C2BDB}
{D2f97240-C9f4-11CF-BFCr-00A0C90-00A0C90C2BDB}
Then restart IE.Look over Internet option-advanced-multimedia-play animation and check it is selected.
Option-advanced-startup need to be installed (startup)As some internet plug-ins have been installed to the browser, some animations and advertisements have been screened. Just cancel the set will be OK.
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Why can’t I hear myself while I am using FLASH courseware online for spoken practice?
You may have problems for your microphone setting. Please click here for detailed setting. -
What’s the pay method?
Chinese Family now supports credit card of VISA and MASTER, including PAYPAL payment system. -
How to connect you for cooperation and promotion?
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My browser (internet explorer) can not display Chinese character?
Please click here for detailed setting.
Notes:
1. There are four tones in Chinese, each of which expresses different meanings, for example"交"hand in"嚼"chew,“脚"feet,“叫"call.
2. If two characters with the third tone read together, the first third tone will change into the second tone, for example "你好",nǐ hǎo should be pronounced as ní hǎo .
3. "你好"is a widely used greeting phrase, which can be used in the morning, in the afternoon,in the evening. The expected answer is also"你好".
4. "您"is a polite and respectable form for "你".
5. In china names, family names are at the beginning and followed by given names.
6. If there is no tone mark on the character ,it will have a weak and short pronunciation, for example , nǐ mēn is read as nǐ men.
7. When the third tone comes before the first , second and the fourth tones , its falling-rising tone changes into falling tone ,as is shown in the chart .In this textbook words are marked with original tones.
8. "u"is written as "w" when it is at the beginning of a syllable such as uo-wo. If "u" is a syllable by itself, it is written as "wu" .
Chinese Learning can be as natural as mother tongue
1. There are four tones in Chinese, each of which expresses different meanings, for example"交"hand in"嚼"chew,“脚"feet,“叫"call.
2. If two characters with the third tone read together, the first third tone will change into the second tone, for example "你好",nǐ hǎo should be pronounced as ní hǎo .
3. "你好"is a widely used greeting phrase, which can be used in the morning, in the afternoon,in the evening. The expected answer is also"你好".
4. "您"is a polite and respectable form for "你".
5. In china names, family names are at the beginning and followed by given names.
6. If there is no tone mark on the character ,it will have a weak and short pronunciation, for example , nǐ mēn is read as nǐ men.
7. When the third tone comes before the first , second and the fourth tones , its falling-rising tone changes into falling tone ,as is shown in the chart .In this textbook words are marked with original tones.
8. "u"is written as "w" when it is at the beginning of a syllable such as uo-wo. If "u" is a syllable by itself, it is written as "wu" .
Chinese Learning can be as natural as mother tongue
“Chinese Family Natural Language Learning Method” is to construct and simulate the process of mother tongue learning with many real Chinese language frames basic on the detailed research and analysis on mother tongue learning. You can recollect the scene of language learning in childhood. When we see others drink and want to drink, we learn to speak the word “water” by listening and simulation without our awareness or understanding the meaning of “water”. This language learning ability is inborn. Without others forcing us to memorize words, when our body has demand, we form interest and actively learn to speak and think by listening.
In fact, this is what we call language environment. But, the biggest difference between language environment and mother tongue environment is that mother tongue environment is a systemic learning process from surface to depth while common language environment is man-made. “Chinese Family Natural Language Learning Method” is designed to abide by this natural habit of human language learning and offers 58 specially-designed different Chinese language scenes of three levels for western learners. You can make your own learning plan, reasonable schedule and learning progress by your own life environment. After finishing the courses of 4 stages of “Chinese Family Natural Language Learning Method”, you can basically master spoken Chinese, keep improving and gradually improve your Chinese without your awareness.
Process......
Note:
I am sorry that we can’t present all the courses before you. The course presented here is part of the first lesson of Beginner-Level . The beginner course will start with “Hello” and “Goodbye” to lead you to Chinese learning. After finishing the beginner course, you may handle simple dialog with Chinese, such as: greeting, apology, expressing thanks, self-introduction, time inquiry, enquiry, asking about one place, seeking for help, ordering your meal, shopping and so on.
Note:
I am sorry that we can’t present all the courses before you. The course presented here is part of the first lesson of Beginner-Level . The beginner course will start with “Hello” and “Goodbye” to lead you to Chinese learning. After finishing the beginner course, you may handle simple dialog with Chinese, such as: greeting, apology, expressing thanks, self-introduction, time inquiry, enquiry, asking about one place, seeking for help, ordering your meal, shopping and so on.
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