Every class has been a rich learning experience with a fantastic mix of instruction and hands on practice. We believe that the four language skills – listening, speaking, reading and writing, are related to each other, even though they can be learn acquired at different paces. Beginners to advanced intermediate levels, each featuring over 1,000 exercise sets, as categorized by vocabulary topics and language skills.

Lessons introduced by phrase and vocabulary following functional use; Cantonese-Putonghua differences; listening and phonics drills (for adult learners).

These qualifications allow learners to obtain recognised certification for introductory work done in Chinese. Thechallenge withChineseis that it is a non-phonetic, character-based language that does not explicitly indicate where a word begins and ends in written form. The GoChinese platform delivers the course materials and supports the internal assessment for the qualifications. Gowell is offering the first fully supported, UK QCA-recognised Chinese language qualifications and courses.

They are offered at Entry Level and Level One of the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) and fully mapped to the new National Occupational Standards for Languages (2006). This comprehensive offering serves effectively as a foundation for a new course or infused into an existing curriculum. pair work, and language exchanges are incorporated to allow students to communicate in meaningful contexts. Offline study is also supported; course pages have printer-friendly versions and sound files that can be saved in the MP3 audio format. GoEnglish features linguistic engines that analyzes the context and thereafter able to determine parts of speech and provide more accurate definitions to the learner.These courses - offered in two tracks: Business and Practical Chinese - are focused on developing listening, speaking and cultural skills, with a conversation focus. GoChinese can work easily with other online learning platforms or intranets and is integrated with the widely-used Blackboard Learning System TM. Emily Yih is an experienced Chinese language teacher, having sp ent more than 20 years teaching the language to foreign student s. GoChinese is an award-winning, online language learning platform that supports Mandarin Chinese learning for English-based and native Chinese learners.

Gowell is proud to have won the 2006 Asia Pacific ICT Award (APICTA) in Education and Training for GoChinese. Our academic users have won a range of educational excellence awards with GoEnglish, with innovative courses supporting test preparation as well as learning English with video clips. It has a history of well over 4000 years in China and remains popular to this day in China, Japan and South Korea. Meanwhile, the number of Go fans in China is at 36 million and rising, with support provided by a wealth of media coverage. History books have recorded quite a number of ardent Go fans from each dynasty, including emperors, officials, poets, educated women and even monks.

Like GoChinese, GoEnglish delivers enriched learning materials and online assessment – auto-generating spoken voice, definition and phonetic support to any text displayed on the platform. Secretary General of the China Go Association, Hua Yigang, explains the reason why this game has predominantly been played by intellectuals. As multimedia and learning support are automated in GoChinese, online language learning materials are easily and cost effectively produced. Exercise types include Tones/Hanyu Pinyin, Listening, Pronunciation, Reading, Character Input and Sentence Construction. Weiqi, known in English as Go or Encirclement Chess, is one of the four most refined skills that an ancient Chinese intellectual could possess.

For the youth, it can be a failed attempt at learning something new, but for the aged, a hobby like this will greatly reduce the danger of senile dementia. You can understand Go as featuring two sides with equal military strength fighting over a fixed territory.As multimedia and learning support are automated in GoEnglish, online language learning materials are easily and cost effectively produced.