#CHINESE SURVIVAL WORDBOOK FOR TRAVELERS PROFESSIONAL#
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In 2007, I became an employee of Hanban/Confucius Headquarters, where I worked in various departments during the next seven years. Soon I found that there were too many things that were still not ready, and later on, I stopped the operation of the company. Undoubtedly, those learning the Chinese language deserve high-quality learning products as well, so I established a small company, specializing in the research and development of learning products. While working on the projects that followed, I found that there was a large gap, both in quantity and quality, between the products for learning Chinese and those for learning other global languages (such as English or French). This project was one of the nationally planned publishing projects, and it was then awarded as one of the 'Best 10 Textbooks for Learning Chinese' by Hanban that year, which gave me more confidence in my future work.

#CHINESE SURVIVAL WORDBOOK FOR TRAVELERS TV#

At that time, I undertook a task for developing the textbook for a fifty-episode TV show that was specially produced for Chinese language learners.

#CHINESE SURVIVAL WORDBOOK FOR TRAVELERS PROFESSIONAL#

In 2003 I started working as a professional developer - an author. I hope that this new book can open a more interesting and effective way for learners worldwide.

I am pleased that my book New Path Getting over Chinese Grammar, published in 2007, which can be regarded as a periodic achievement, was welcomed by learners, and also was put on the bookshelves several countries. In recent decades, I have made this my primary job and have made continuous efforts at it. To reach that goal in practice means that we need to rethink and rediscover this language from a totally new perspective, which, undoubtedly, is a very challenging job. It is similar to how we learn math: we always focus on the philosophies and approaches, and we never try to memorize the equations and the results. That is, they needed to know the specific way of thinking beneath the surface and to catch the rationalities in rules and the ways in which to apply them. Later on, I realized something important: to help learners radically increase efficiency in the learning process, they first needed to understand this language. Regrettably, I have never been to her store to try anything though she invited me warmly. She was a girl from Australia, a little older than I was, and she ran an ice cream store in Beijing at that time. I still remember the name of my first student.

Though I was not majoring in linguistics or pedagogy, I found that I loved this job very much, and I had a great ability in the area of teaching. I once heard that everyone carries a mission when he or she comes to this world.Ībout twenty years ago, while still a college student, I started a part-time job, somewhat accidentally, to teach the Chinese language to people from abroad.

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