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The impact of comprehensible input on language learning: a deep dive

You Can Learn Chinese

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The Path to Teaching Chinese

I always wanted to be a teacher deep down and I thought that I was really interested in psychology. But then naturally, once I'd started to gradually become a linguist by mistake by accident,. It just kind of opened my world up so much. So I've always actively sought out schools and institutions where I could have the maximum impact on those students lives. My thing is I like writing raps. So I find out which songs or raps the kids are interested in at a given time. And then I search out the instrumental version and then I compose my own lyrics in Mandarin. They go home and do it with their mates because they start rapping together. The first Mando r

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