Articles for helping kids learn about china culture

Research shows that in China students can spend up to 77 hours a week studying! That’s because schools will give students a lot of homework, and on top of this, they need to do homework for extra-curricular classes. But unlike their western counterparts, a higher percentage of Chinese students actually enjoy studying, because they begin studying form a young age. With so much stuff to remember students have some useful tricks for online Chinese learning . For example, studying a subject for long periods of time can get boring, which is not conducive to learning, Chinese students will study every day but switch between subjects to maximize their learning. Self-discipline is the major characteristic of Chinese e-learning habits , although parents will bulk up their kids’ timetable most of the studying is done individually by the students. Most students understand the importance of education from a young age and learn not to waste precious study time.

L earning  Mandarin Chinese  is popular in recent years! Take the first step towards learning it. One you may find fun is called  Year Hare Affair  or  Na Nian, Na Tu, Na Xie Shi （那年那兔那些事儿） , which covers recent Chinese history in the form of cute talking rabbits. Over the past few years, home-grown Chinese animated series have been gaining in quality and popularity. Some are based on popular comics like Xiong Chu Mo （熊出没） while others draw from history. Series like Spongebob Squarepants and Fairly Oddparents however, which have little basis in reality or previous works, are very uncommon. Many Chinese children like to watch foreign animation. Shaun the Sheep and, more recently, Peppa Pig come to mind. You may even run into these series playing on television screens on Chinese subways. To get an idea for the popularity of these series: Over the past two years, Peppa Pig has beenwatched  over 34 billion times .

In Europe, almost every child can master several languages, and will grow up. In the process of language acquisition, the child has a strong ability to distinguish self. In the process of contact both in  o nline learning for kids , parents need not worry too much. Physical Education and keeping fit is taken very seriously by Chinese schools as they hope to combat the growing trend of obesity in children. Every morning, and sometimes as a break during classes, students in the whole school must participate in morning exercises. It’s a sight to see, hundreds of students standing quietly in a school courtyard in perfectly straight rows, evenly spaced. Once they are ready, over a loudspeaker a teacher shouts commands and students begin their morning exercises.   The morning exercises involve a series of physical exercises to get the blood pumping and ‘wake’ the students up for class. They can also be mixed with Eye exercises but we’ll talk about that in our next po...

In today’s  online language education market, students (and their parents) enjoy a wide range of freedoms not afforded in a traditional physical setting. Besides not having to drive across town to a brick and mortar learning center, these include: Convenient and flexible scheduling The ability to select from many different teachers and tutors Access to experts in fields outside of standard school subjects A choice in program type and class size Educators also see a number of benefits made possible by the virtual classroom environment including: Convenient and flexible scheduling (Who wouldn’t appreciate this?) The ability to work from home or anywhere in the world A choice between offering services directly or through an online education company The chance to share their knowledge on topics which don’t fit within a standard curriculum What we’re seeing is an explosion in the accessibility of high quality education across all fields, ages, and nationalities – and i...

Practical online learning courses could speed up your listening abilility and speaking skills. For our previous series we focused on the first week of Spring Festival, don’t think the festivities start to wind down after 7 days, this is a two-week long celebration! Everyone starts to prepare for the lantern festival from the twelfth day by making or buying lanterns and then decorating their house. Lantern Festival is celebrated from the 14th to the 15th day by eating Tangyuan made of sweet rice and a sweet stuffing. This brings the end of Spring Festival until the following year. This isn’t a very big day of celebrations depending on what province you are from, the best way to describe this day is as the dragon dance day, since there will be lots of dragon dance shows. You can watch them on TV or head down to the temple fayres to see these. After this comes the birthday of the most important deity, the Jade Emperor. Sacrifices and fireworks are set off to celebrate his birthd...