Go! Chinese 1, 2e Student Textbook (Simplified Chinese)

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Rapidly develops practical language skills for beginner learners. Focuses on listening, speaking and cultural skills on everyday and commercial matters. This course leads directly to UK QCA-recognized certifications and the GoChinese platform delivers much of the assessment online. Chinese characters displayed in lessons but character knowledge not assessed. See Accreditations. Du Mu was a famous poet living in the ninth century. He once wrote a poem about playing a farewell game of Go with his friend, where they used jade stones and a catalpa table. Today the most popular stones are the Yunzi, made from pebble stone from Southwestern Yunnan province. As Wu Yulin coaches his team of young players to progress further and further in the realm of Go, more children are taking private Go lessons. It only remains to be seen which of them will become the shining stars of tomorrow.

Many language learning products – for any language – use the Internet as a form of content delivery to learners. GoLanguages does this but go a step further, using technology as a means to automatically generate multimedia and learning outputs. As a result, GoLanguages can deliver preset We aim to integrate the training of the four skills by practising a large amount of exercises, many of which incorporate authentic materials. Exercises like phonetics practice, listening to native Mandarin speakers’ conversations, reading and writing Chinese characters and articles etc. History books have recorded quite a number of ardent Go fans from each dynasty, including emperors, officials, poets, educated women and even monks. Today, there are still many Go fans in China, Japan and South Korea, indicating that this game can exert a powerful hold over many people. Long time professional Wu Yulin explains the attraction of Go.

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Hua Yigang, Secretary General of the China Go Association, and a professional player, loves what he considers to be a peaceful game, which reflects ideas of absolute equality.

She has also worked as Curriculum Advisor for the Toronto Board of Education (Canada). She was member director of Ontario Chinese A full range of learning resources for Chinese ab initio and Chinese B levels students. Features reading passages, comprehension assessment, writing modules, oral questions and vocabulary/phrase lists, all categorized by commonly introduced IB vocabulary topics. Over 200 reading and writing passages and almost 3,000 vocabulary words. GoChinese is an online language publishing and learning platform in which learning materials are contributed or customized by all participants in the learning process - publishers, authors, instructors and learners. Access Courses & Textbooks for an overview of the unique approach of these courses as well as sample lessons.Introduces healthcare-related vocabulary, phrases and dialogues; sections on functional use; Cantonese-Putonghua differences; listening and phonics drills Go embodies a spirit of equality, in that every stone is equal. They don't carry a preset role as in other games, such as chess. Women can play it just the same as men. If everyone loved to play Go, ours would be a much more peaceful world." Rapidly develops practical language skills for non-native learners passing the Entry Level course. Focuses on listening, speaking and cultural skills on everyday and commercial matters. This course leads directly to UK QCA-recognized certifications and the GoChinese platform delivers much of the assessment online. Chinese characters displayed in lessons but character knowledge not assessed. See Accreditations.

pair work, and language exchanges are incorporated to allow students to communicate in meaningful contexts. Go! Chinese Workbook 3 In fact, all of our minds can benefit from playing Go, which officially has the capacity to make you smarter. Research has shown that that children who play Go have the potential for greater intelligence, since it motivates both the right and left sides of the brain.basic vocabulary and simple sentence structures with emphasis on listening and speaking. Activities such as role play, interviews, games,