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"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.
It mainly offers service for those who require Chinese for communication at work or in life.
The predecessor of "Chinese family" is International Language Evaluation and Research Center-(Chinese-Tibetan lab). Chinese-family.com was built in October, 2006. The platform provides the world’s most advanced Chinese courses for enthusiasts around the world. Currently, our latest product is the set of Chinese teaching materials released with the cooperation of National Society for Chinese Language on the grounds of achievements by these world-famous linguists and bio-engineers: Gary Small, James DiCarlo and Marinus.

Method and Approach

Under the guidance of color-stimulus theory and features of westerners’ brain activities, "Chinese family" course uses the exclusive FLASH software to improve learners’ efficiency. Learners no longer need to deal with the boring and complicated PINYIN and Chinese characters. Instead, through the special learning approach, they will master the basic oral Chinese in twenty days.
The course can be not only applied through online interactive mode, but also downloaded to various mobile equipments like PSP, IPOD, cell phone, MP3 and PDA. Every learner can learn Chinese anytime and anywhere indeed.

 
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
“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.
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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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"Chinese Family has well-structured courses. Starting with their survival level, I learned the basics of Mandarin, from introducing myself to ordering food and much more. The course material offers different learning strategy for everybody. Audio, video and online co...





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Doctor Gary Small

Doctor Gary Small (USA) is a famous neuroscientist, the director of Center of Memory and Aging Study of Semel Institute of Los Angeles Branch of California University...


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