6 Study Tips for Online Chinese Learners
How Can You Make Your Online Chinese Classes More Effective?
Many students have to take online classes due to the spread of the coronavirus. Some of them are worried that online classes might not be as effective as offline classes. Because there are some additional factors that need to be taken into account. How to prepare for your online Chinese class? Here’re some tips for online Chinese leaners.
Kids and adults both can study online (check our online Chinese classes for kids). Studying online has its obvious advantages over offline classes, including time-saving and flexible class schedules. However, how to make online classes more effective is what many students care about. We are here to offer you some advice 🙃
Have a Clear Idea of What You Want to Learn
Unlike group classes, most online courses are tailor-made to meet your specific learning requirements. Therefore, it’s actually a good opportunity to tell your teacher what you want to learn. Just in order to make your online classes more effective. It is sensible to give your teacher a rough idea of what topics you are interested in or what you want to improve. So that he or her to prepare the right learning materials. In addition, you can ask your teacher to adjust the course materials anytime you think the class content has “deviated” from what you really want to learn.
Preview Your Next Lesson
It is important to preview the upcoming lesson every time. In that your teacher is deprived of the opportunity to write down everything in detail on a blackboard during an online class. Therefore, given that the learning materials can be provided in advance. It will be necessary to have a general idea of what you are going to learn for your next lesson. So that you can improve the efficiency of your online classes.
Ask Whenever You Have a Question
Like what has been mentioned above, most online classes are designed in such a way that you will be able to focus on what you want to improve. In other words, your individual learning requirements are treated as the top priority during an online class. Thus there is no need to be shy if you want to ask a question that confuses you. More importantly, one of your teacher’s main responsibilities is to help clarify all the grammatical and sentence structures which are unfamiliar to you.
Take Notes
One thing you need to remember. It is that quite a few learning points are explained orally during an online Chinese class. Even though you have your textbook (or sometimes an online learning system) in front of you, you are still advised to take notes to help consolidate what you’ve learned. In addition, it will be helpful to write down useful examples that can be used in daily life conversations.
Practice Is the Key
Sometimes your teacher may ask you to make sentences or short stories using some of the words and expressions that you’ve learned during the class. In fact, this is a brilliant opportunity for you to practice your spoken Chinese. This can also help you improve your sentence structuring ability. Irrespective of what language you are learning, practicing it with native speakers on a regular basis is indispensable to making further progress in your study.
Do Your Homework and Review Your Notes
Your teacher will give you some homework after each class. Make sure you do your homework every time and review your notes. That way you will have a clear idea of what you’ve learned and what needs to be paid more attention to. In addition, it will be helpful to write down all the mistakes you made in your homework in a separate notebook.
Have a Clear Idea of What You Want to Learn
Unlike group classes, most online courses are tailor-made to meet your specific learning requirements. Therefore, it’s actually a good opportunity to tell your teacher what you want to learn. Just in order to make your online classes more effective.
It is sensible to give your teacher a rough idea of what topics you are interested in or what you want to improve. So that he or her to prepare the right learning materials. In addition, you can ask your teacher to adjust the course materials anytime you think the class content has “deviated” from what you really want to learn.
Ask Whenever You Have a Question
Like what has been mentioned above, most online classes are designed in such a way that you will be able to focus on what you want to improve. In other words, your individual learning requirements are treated as the top priority during an online class. Thus there is no need to be shy if you want to ask a question that confuses you. More importantly, one of your teacher’s main responsibilities is to help clarify all the grammatical and sentence structures which are unfamiliar to you.
Practice Is the Key
Sometimes your teacher may ask you to make sentences or short stories using some of the words and expressions that you’ve learned during the class. In fact, this is a brilliant opportunity for you to practice your spoken Chinese. This can also help you improve your sentence structuring ability. Irrespective of what language you are learning, practicing it with native speakers on a regular basis is indispensable to making further progress in your study.
Preview Your Next Lesson
It is important to preview the upcoming lesson every time. In that your teacher is deprived of the opportunity to write down everything in detail on a blackboard during an online class. Therefore, given that the learning materials can be provided in advance. It will be necessary to have a general idea of what you are going to learn for your next lesson. So that you can improve the efficiency of your online classes.
Take Notes
One thing you need to remember. It is that quite a few learning points are explained orally during an online Chinese class. Even though you have your textbook (or sometimes an online learning system) in front of you, you are still advised to take notes to help consolidate what you’ve learned. In addition, it will be helpful to write down useful examples that can be used in daily life conversations.
Do Your Homework and Review Your Notes
Your teacher will give you some homework after each class. Make sure you do your homework every time and review your notes. That way you will have a clear idea of what you’ve learned and what needs to be paid more attention to. In addition, it will be helpful to write down all the mistakes you made in your homework in a separate notebook.
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