Intriducing me

cravy

November 22, 2008, 12:39 PM posted in General Discussion

Hello everyone!

My name is Oksana and I'm a teacher of Mandarin in Russia, Siberia. People are interested in studying mandarin here (mostly because of  territorial closiness to China. Alomost everyone is studying Mandarine for business purposes), so I never suffer from lack of students. The yongest student at the moment is 16, the oldest one is 40. So age groups differ a lot.

It may sound odd, but actually there are a few  Mandarin textbooks written in Russian. Most of the textbooks I use in my teaching, I've written by myself or translated from English.

 As for the Chinesepod, I sometimes use dialogs to develop my students' listening skills. Qingwen also helps a lot, when I need some exsamples for grammar patterns.

I also use the pictures to some of your lessons in speaking tasks ( E.g: "describe a picture").

For the other texbooks - a usefull one is 交通汉语 by 大山, as it has video lessons. I brought it from Beijing some years ago and translated into Russian. Another usefull book is "Chinese measure word without tears" ( unfortunately forgot the author).

 

Of course, it will be super-cool if Chinesepod will publish somethings for theachers :)