{"id":247,"date":"2016-09-05T08:54:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T15:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/organizingchaos\/?p=247"},"modified":"2017-11-13T14:20:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T22:20:17","slug":"course-review-chin-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/organizingchaos\/2016\/09\/05\/course-review-chin-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Review: CHIN 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Basic Chinese I: Part 1 (Non-Heritage)<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;b\u0101 l\u0101 k\u00e8 \u00a0\u00e0o b\u0101 m\u01ce (Barack Obama)!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Text:\u00a0<\/strong>Integrated Chinese: Simplified Characters Textbook &amp; Workbook, Level 1, Part 1 by\u00a0 Yuehua Liu<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof:<\/strong>\u00a0 Lee (An-Yi) Laoshi<\/p>\n<p>Lee Laoshi is super funny and passionate. The class was the most enjoyable class I took that term because of interactive nature of the lessons. It was the only class that I didn&#8217;t occasionally look at the clock to see when it was ending. She was also very helpful and understanding. Unfortunately, she was only hired as a Visiting Lecturer\u00a0and will be leaving UBC soon.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Difficulty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0workload was a lot. Weekly quizzes, character sheets, and the occasional workbook chapter created an onslaught of homework, even when there wasn&#8217;t a midterm. Most of it was memorization, so it was just a matter of spending the time. Most of the stuff was on the computer. Unfortunately, my computer packed up on the final, so I didn&#8217;t do as well as I did during the rest of the course and I lost a letter grade.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Key Concepts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pinyin (pronunciation) with tones<\/p>\n<p>Character reading<\/p>\n<p>Character writing<\/p>\n<p>Understanding oral Chinese<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Hard Concepts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recognising pinyin orally: Really hard, be sure to get a lot of practice before the final. I advise recruiting a first language speaker friend to help out.<\/p>\n<p>Writing characters: Quite painstaking, especially if you are not the best artist. Lots of practice.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fun classes, exhausting homework and worthwhile introduction to one of the world&#8217;s most widely spoken languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basic Chinese I: Part 1 (Non-Heritage) &#8220;b\u0101 l\u0101 k\u00e8 \u00a0\u00e0o b\u0101 m\u01ce (Barack Obama)!&#8221; Text:\u00a0Integrated Chinese: Simplified Characters Textbook &amp; Workbook, Level 1, Part 1 by\u00a0 Yuehua Liu Prof:\u00a0 Lee (An-Yi) Laoshi Lee Laoshi is super funny and passionate. The class was the most enjoyable class I took that term because of interactive nature of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28516,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[281864],"tags":[1171186,1171189,1171190,1171191,593014,1171188,1171192,37],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course-reviews","tag-an-yi-lee","tag-chin","tag-chin-101","tag-chin-131","tag-chinese-101","tag-chinese-131","tag-intro-chinese","tag-ubc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/organizingchaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/organizingchaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/organizingchaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/organizingchaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28516"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/organizingchaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/organizingchaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/organizingchaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/organizingchaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/organizingchaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/organizingchaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}