Chinese Character Teaching Strategies
FacebookTwitterLinkedinDear grammarians, On our new post, we would like to introduce a research poster on Chinese character teaching strategies. So keep reading for more information about research posters and Chinese characters (汉字 hanzi) teaching methods and strategies. What is a Research Poster? A poster session or poster presentation is the presentation of research by an individual or group for a class or academic/professional conference. At a conference, the work is usually peer reviewed. Posters are widely used in the academic… ...
Why you should read ‘A teacher in Kathmandu’
FacebookTwitterLinkedinDear grammarians, The addition of teaching Chinese as a foreign language among the services provided by BertaGrama Traducciones brought us memories of the book A teacher in Kathmandu, the unfinished story of Victoria Subirana, which takes off with the narrative of a young Spanish teacher embarking on a mission of solidarity and peaks with the consolidation of a universal educational project for the most underprivileged and marginalised children of Nepal, to whom she has granted the kind of teaching that anyone… ...
Should I visit Beijing or Shanghai?
FacebookTwitterLinkedinDear grammarians, After the summer break, which helped us accumulate countless and varied contents to share with you, we come back with a new entry. On this occasion, we focus on travelling choices within China: where should I go, Beijing or Shanghai? Many of you may certainly think that both cities can be visited within the same trip, and this is actually a realistic option. However, the question is: is it worth it? From our point of view, there are… ...
Why people change their accent
FacebookTwitterLinkedinDear grammarians: Being a translator, one becomes interested in anything related to language. In our post today, we have chosen the accent as the core of our reflections and research, since accent is not just a way of speaking. On the contrary, studying accents made us ask ourselves about certain issues that are customary, but we usually just have mere conjectures based on our own experience and observations to find answers to them. An accent is the unique way that… ...
I challenge you to a duel (or how we do not respond to grievance anymore)
FacebookTwitterLinkedin“I challenge you to a duel!” (June 2013) I wonder whether the rush we are advocated to within this world came naturally or, on the contrary, as a result of long discussions held by that secret group of powerful people who allegedly rules the world from their offices. Whatever the truth is, it is unquestionable that rushing, pushing, covering for our basic needs and crazily searching for leisure activities, all these things together, blur our vision of the surroundings, the… ...