Study mandarin-The Spring in Shanghai|Mandarin Morning

If you want to studymandarin in your life every day, you don't Miss the Natural Beauty in spring in shanghai. With gentle breezes and warm sunshine all around, spring is embracing Shanghai now. It's time to take off the heavy coats and take your camera to nature and enjoy a delightful trip.March and April are the perfect time for a spring outing with family or friends, a lover or simply by yourself to enjoy the much-missed sunshine and pleasant warm breezes.Here are some popular outdoor places in Shanghai to appreciate this wonderful time of year.
　　If you search in shanghai forum or classified websites in shanghai, you will find many activities about spring in shanghai. Many Chinese schools will organize study mandarin activities outdoor for free(you just need spend money by taking a bus or a railway).
　　Now mandarin morning Chinese school editor will show you some information of spring outing.
　　Sheshan Hill, Songjiang District
　　If anyone says that he/she is going to climb a mountain in Shanghai where average altitude is only 3 meters above sea level, the destination will definitely be Sheshan Hill with its highest point at 97 meters. It is also a great place for a family spring outing.
　　Families can pitch tents, have barbecues and play all sorts of games, such as football and badminton.
　　Sheshan Hill has a large artificial lake and a sculpture theme park, where children can play on the man-made beach.
　　How to get there: Take Metro Line 9 to Sheshan Station, then take a taxi.
　　Shanghai Cherry Blossom Festival
　　Venue: Guchun Park in Baoshan District
　　Duration: March 22 - April 22
　　During the festival, eight scenic spots in Baoshan District will offer visitors free, half-price or preference tickets (the name list of the eight spots and the preference information are written at the end of the article).
　　Sheshan Bamboo Shoots Culture Festival
　　Venue: Sheshan National Forest Park
　　Duration: Mar 28 - Apr 6
　　The first Shanghai International Orchid Show
　　Venue: Chenshan Botanical Garden
　　Duration: Mar 29 - Apr 22
　　Walking-in-Spring Festival in Happy Valley
　　Venue: Happy Valley
　　Duration: Apr 1–Apr 28
　　Many studying mandarin chances are there. So you need run to get them. How to study mandarin well of spring outing? Remember following tips:
　　1. Bold enough to speak;
　　2. Culturally confident, but open to learn;
　　3. Speak to your classmates or local people;
　　4. Don’t be afraid of making mistakes of studying mandarin, we can make progress by making mistakes;
　　5. Don’ pay much attention to pronunciation, instead pay more attention to content expression and fluency;
　　6. Learn how to taking photos by your camera;
　　7. Keep practicing;
　　8. Rome is not built in a day.
　　But the last thing is enjoy the spring outing, enjoy gentle breezes and warm sunshine all around. If you feel warm, comfortable and happy, you will study mandarin efficiently. Just be relax to studymandarin which Chinese mandarin is one of languages like your mother tongue.
　　Trust yourself is important.

Be happy and study mandarin efficiently.

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A better way to learn Chinese?

　　

There’s been a rising dissatisfaction with current language teaching methods in China, but scientists think they may have an answer.
　　There’s no way round it: learning Chinese is tough. As far as reading goes, what most dismays native speakers of alphabetic languages is that Chinese characters offer so few clues. With virtually no Spanish, I can figure out in the right context that baño means bath, but that word in Chinese (洗澡) seems to offer no clues about pronunciation, let alone meaning.
　　There seems no alternative, then, but to slavishly learn the 3,500 or so characters that account for at least 99% of use in written Chinese. This is hard even for native Chinese speakers, usually demanding endless rote copying in school. And even then, it is far more common than is often admitted for Chinese people to forget even quite routine characters, such as 钥匙 (key). As a result, there’s been a rising dissatisfaction with current language teaching methods in China in recent years.
　　Is there a better way? Physicist Jinshan Wu of Beijing Normal University, a specialist in the new mathematical science of network theory, and colleagues have investigated the structural relationships between Chinese characters to develop a learning strategy that exploits these connections.
　　Chinese characters aren’t really as arbitrary and bewilderingly diverse as they might seem. For one thing, they are made up of a fairly limited number of sub-characters or radicals, which themselves are composed of a set of standard marks, or strokes. What’s more, the radicals often contain clues about meaning or pronunciation, or both. In the Chinese forbath, for example (pronounced xizao in the pinyin Romanization system), both characters start with the same radical, which denotes water, and the right-hand half of both characters indicates how they are pronounced. There are general rules (called liu shu, 六书) for building characters from radicals.
　　These connections help with learning the language. Once you know thatwood is 木 (mu), it’s not so hard to remember that forest is 林 (lin) – or even more pictorially, 森林 (senlin). Assisted by the liu shu rules, Wu and colleagues mapped out the structural relationships between all 3,500 of the common characters, to form a network with over 7,000 links. This shows that the roughly 224 radicals are combined in just 1,000 or so characters that form the basis of all the others.
　　This network is hierarchical, meaning that it is somewhat like a tree, with a few central nodes (trunks) branching into many branch tips. That’s very different from a web-like network such as a grid or street map, in which there are often many different ways to get to any particular node. The researchers figured that it could be most efficient to start learning characters at the lower levels of the hierarchy – the trunks, as it were – and to progress gradually out towards the branch tips.
　　Character building
　　But would that necessarily be better than a strategy which focuses on the most frequently used words first? How, indeed, can one assess the relative efforts, or costs, required with different learning strategies? There’s no unique way to do this, but Wu and colleagues developed a logical, intuitive method of enumerating costs. They figured that it is easier to learn a multi-part character if all the components had been learnt previously. To take a simple case, it’s easier to learn 明 (ming:bright) if you have already learnt 日 (ri: sun, day) and 月 (yue: month, moon).
　　The researchers assigned cost values to each new learning task, and found the “cheapest” way to learn all the characters in the network is to start with the “trunk” characters that have the highest number of branches, and work up through the layers. But that could leave you knowing a lot of words you rarely need to use. If, on the other hand, you simply learn characters in order of use frequency (as some learning methods do), you fail to take advantage of the network connections that can aid recognition.
　　The ideal approach, which Wu’s team adopts, is a compromise between the two: it’s rather like planning a shopping trip by seeking the shortest path between shops while also contriving to pick up the heaviest items last. Adjusting the relationship network by giving a certain weighting or priority to each character depending on its use frequency, means the learning path spreads gradually through the network while picking up most of the common characters first.
　　The researchers compared the learning cost of their strategy with that for the most widely used textbook in Chinese primary schools (covering 2,475 characters) and a popular textbook for learning Chinese as a second language. For a given cost, their new strategy picked up both considerably more characters in total and a significantly greater total use frequency than the two alternatives.
　　What’s more, the researchers say that their approach would allow each student’s learning strategy to be tailored to his or her individual strengths – for example, to suit those who have already learnt some characters. This just isn’t possible with traditional approaches.
　　Of course, the ultimate test is whether students do actually learn faster. This remains to be seen. But with the debate continuing to rage in China over current teaching methods, this new proposal shows that there may be rational ways to pursue the question.

This article by Philip at BBC website.