Teaching Chinese by Emphasizing

Some foreigners are wondering whether the Chinese characters are not adaptable and imperfect in recording Chinese language when they study Chinese. They doubt it because they think the relationship between characters and morphemes are not one-for-one corresponding relation. Compared with the alphabetic languages, foreigners who study Chinese can see Chinese language does have some shortcomings, which are just the advantages of alphabetic languages. They should learn characters one by one because they can’t understand the meaning just by seeing the appearance.

Om addition, there are many different characters with the same pronunciation in Chinese language. Therefore, when overseas students learn to speak Chinese, they find it is difficult to tell apart and speak them incorrectly. And the pronunciation of Chinese characters is also different in various places. Another point the students who study Chinese realize may be the translation of the loanwords. Most foreign words can be pronounced by Chinese characters but there are no proper characters to express them accurately. Since Chinese characters are morpheme characters, teachers should pay attention to the teaching in the difficult points in Chinese language to help the foreign learners.