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Yingzi Lixing

Ms. Marlowe

Expo R/W P 1

1 December 2017

Works Cited

Fang, Angela. "Common Mistakes Chinese Learners Make." TutorMing Mandarin

Learning Tips Blog, TUTORMING CHINESE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE BLOG,

27 June 2016, blog.tutorming.com/mandarin-chinese-learning-tips/common-mistakes-

chinese-learners-make. Accessed 30 Nov. 2017. In this article, Fang shows the common

mistakes that Chinese learners make through their study process. According to her

students's mistakes about Chinese in daily life, she lists the different mistakes that

Chinese learners might make in speaking and reading. Fang compare the similar

pronunciations that new Chinese learners confuse about and mix up, they speak another

words when they want to express a totally different meaning. The wrong tones also make

different meaning which can change a statement into a question or turn a noun into a

verb. In the reading, people sometimes can't recognize some words because they are too

similar. She indicates that the most mistakes that Chinese learners make is that they can

not recognize the different words in both reading and speaking. This article lists a lot of

examples about the wrong recognition, it will help me to be careful about those words

and emphasize those problems in my teaching video, so that people can avoid or reduce

the mistakes.

GOABROAD WRITING TEAM. "10 Best Ways to Learn a New Language." Goaboard,

18 July 2017, www.goabroad.com/articles/language-study-abroad/10-best-ways-to-learn-

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a-new-language. Accessed 30 Nov. 2017. In this article, the author lists 10 ways that

most people use to learn a new language. By seeing how native speakers learn their

languages in their culture, he finds that the ways native speaker use to learn language are

also the best ways for multi-language people to learn. The author expound that watch

movies, make native friends, copy elementary schools kids, and be brave to show what

you learnt can help people to learn a new language. He urges that people need try to put

themselves in the new language environment and to communicate with native speakers,

so that they will regard themselves as native speakers and they will learn the new

language subconsciously even when they are not on purpose to do it. This article provides

the good ways to learn a new language, it will help me to give some good advices for the

people who will watch my teaching videos to learn Chinese faster and better.

Hua, Sara Lynn. "Why Learning Chinese Is the Next Big Thing." Tutorming Blog,

TUTORMING CHINESE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE BLOG, 22 Oct. 2015,

blog.tutorming.com/business/why-learning-chinese-is-the-next-big-thing. Accessed 28

Nov. 2017. In this article, Sara explain that why it's important to learn Chinese now and

in the future. According to the growing number of teaching and learning Chinese in the

world from 2011 to 2015, she examines the importance of Chinese in the life now and the

future. Sara exposes that China is the world’s largest exporter, many products especially

phones can only be produced in China. China is also a gateway into the Asian market

which have large number of customers and the Investors in China are seeking to invest in

overseas businesses. If you want to make money in China you need to learn Chinese to

communicate first. She urge people to study Chinese not only to be able to connect with

another culture, but to prepare themselves for the future. This article provide the reason
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why it's good to learn Chinese and the fact that more people start to learn Chinese, I can

show those information to attract more people to learn Chinese

Mark, Emily. "Chinese Writing." Ancient History Encyclopedia, 7 Apr. 2016,

www.ancient.eu/Chinese_Writing/. Accessed 29 Nov. 2017. In this article, Mark shows

the evolution of Chinese Characters which transform from pictures to the words in past

5000 years. After seeing the different images and marks on silk, wood, bamboo, bronzer,

oracle bones ands paper,she examines the differences about Chinese characters in every

period. Mark researches the Chinese characters in different dynasty to show the features

in every period. Ultimately, she finds that Chinese characters (the full sentence) started in

Shang Dynasty which was recorded on oracle bone (the Oracle Bone Script) and keep

evaluating to the Bronze Script, the Seal Script, the Lesser Seal Script, the Official Script

and Regular Script. This article shows the evolution of Chinese Characters, it help me

prove that Chinese writing developed from pictures of objects which represented

concepts to signs representing the concepts themselves. So I can let people understanding

Chinese characters more and help them to remember or write Chinese characters.

Taub, Orna. "6 Major Differences between English and Chinese." DigMandarin, 20 Jan.

2017, www.digmandarin.com/6-major-differences-between-english-and-chinese.html.

Accessed 30 Nov. 2017. In this article, Orna lists 6 major differences about sentences

between Chinese and English to help people see the differences between the two

languages, and understand how to start comprehending the Chinese language. By

comparing the Chinese sentences and English sentences' structures, he gets the

conclusion that Chinese prefer to use simple and short sentences instead of long and

complicated sentences based on grammar. Orna explains that English emphasizes the
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structure, use passive voice and abstract nouns often, while Chinese emphasize the

meaning and use active voice and concrete nouns often. In Chinese, idioms and short four

characters expressions are very widely used to make the expression more vivid and

compact, the words are generally not being omitted and instead may be repeated in order

to give the listener or reader clarity of what is being stated. He indicates that Chinese

emphasizes short and clear expressions so that the listener or reader will easily get the

accurate meaning of the idea expressed. This article provides original and reliable words

about two languages' differences, it help me explain in my video so that people can

understanding Chinese faster and avoid using English sentences’ structure to write

Chinese.