Brief Introduction to ZhangGuangzhao New and Fast Chinese

1. Achievment and results

Professor Zhang Guangzhao, who studies deeply and has made remarkable achievement in the fields of philosophy, education, Chinese learning and innovation, etc.  His most valuable and workable achievement is philosophical revolution and literacy revolution “ZhangGuangzhao New and Fast Chinese Language Teaching Approach”. After ten years of research，his textbooks The Songs of Literacy, teaching aids Writing Pad, teaching materials and software have come into being and matured. Using this method he teaches Chinese pre-school children, the first and second grade pupils and foreign learners as well. The trainees can learn more than 2500 the most commonly used Chinese characters（The literacy of elementary school for six years is learning Chinese characters，know moren than 40,000 high frequency phrases formed by these characters （This is the approch of learning Chinese culture）and more than 3000 well-turned phrases（it is the way of learning Chinese civilaiztion，speak innumerable Chinese language, pass the barrier  of  words recognition, listening and speaking Chinese language.  Approved through practice the effect of his teaching method is four to six times compared with the current teaching approach .

2. Principle and grounds

a. Concentrated and fast recognition of Chinese characters

Chinese character features in phrase formed with words, but words are less than  phrases. The sequence of learning Chinese is from individual word--phrase—sentence---text. However, the sequence of learning a foreign language is from phrase---sentence---text. Therefore, learning Chinese language should not be like learning a foreign language. That is the difference between Chinese and foreign language. It thanks to the successful method of a Book of a Thousand Characters a thousand years ago. it is effective and self-evident.

《爱我中华识字歌》开头部分

锦绣中华，富饶辽阔。

             傲立东方，地大物博。

             候呈五类，北冷南热。

             时差越肆，东晨西夜。

             陆疆绵延，拾余邻国。

             沿海岛屿，棋布星罗。

             绿洲良港，伟岸岩坡。

             层峦叠翠，繁茂沃野。

b. Phrase-formation with characters

This is Prof. Zhang’s innovation of Chinese language teaching approach, which seems to decodng the Chinese characters and has been approved why more than 2000 characters are enough for use. That is the differrence of traditional Chinese teaching methods, just as the saying goes  “twice the result with half the effort and half the result with twice the effort”.

Unit one   The Songs of Literacy

New words

n       一 二 三 四 五，   六 七 八 九 0

  个  十  百 千  万，什么  那哪里（些）

One two  three  fore five  ,six seven  eight nine  zero

n       One/ ten/ hundred/thousand/ten thousand/what/that/where

Phrases formed with characters

一，二，三 … …一百零九，一百一十，一一；一个；十一；一五一十；一九；三九；那么；那里；那个，那些，哪个；哪里；哪些，个个；千万；万万；千千万万；万万千千；万一；二百五；十万八千里。Crosstalk：一二三， 三二一， 一二三四五六七，七六五四三二一，九八七六五四三二一

ｃ. Practice-tracing in black ink over characters printed in red

Foreign learners think that it is difficult for them to learn and write Chinese and they cannot write Chinese characters well. This has been caused by an improper teaching approach. Prof. Zhang’s new approach makes the writing of Chinese characters more easy and handsome, which has already been accepted by market and people.

d. Software integrated with character recogniton , writing, listening and speaking

The software makes native Chinese and foreign learners study Chinese language simply, which can be used for self-taught material.

e. Unique method of foreign exchange

Untilize e-dictionary and Chinese-Foreign language dictionary to teach foreign learners in studying Chinese （ Prof. Zhang’s software）

3. Characteristics and methods

a.       Theoretical and academic achievement

Freed from the mysterious verbose of academism and empiricism, Prof. Zhang’s studies of Chinese language teaching approach involves in the features and differences beween Chinese and foreign languages, summarization of historical and realistic experiences and comprehensive inheritance of all kinds of successful methods, innovation and development. It has become the most theoretical and practical contemporary Chinese language teaching approach.

b. Comprehensiveness and entireness

Prof. Zhang’s method comprehensively settled the problems exsited in  character recognition, listening, writing and speaking Chinese. Furthermore, there is much that can be learned about Chinese culture and civilizatin from Chinese characters. It is better for both Chinese and foeign learners. (The current Chinese Courses for Foreign learners are to speak only, lacking of culture and civilization accomplishment）

c. Universality and permanent

Learning objects may be Chinese children and ethnic Chinese and foreigners who cannot speak Chinese. Teachers can teach Chinese at home and abroad. If China and Chinese language exsit, Chinese teaching must be there.

d.       Low cost and high efficiency

Just like Mr. Yuan Rongping who decoded the paddy secret code made paddy yield increased, the decode of Chinese language cipher will make Chinese become the easiest language to learn in the wolrd.

e.       Splendid contents with rich times spirit

It is not inferior compared with A Book of Thousand Characters. The content is coherent , highlighted, more knowledgeable and teachable.

f.        Low threshold and high efficiency

 Unique teaching material and simple teaching approach can make any Chinese people with senior high school edcation background engage in language teaching at home and abroad after short-time training course. Any foreign learners may raise their level of character recognition, writing, listening and speaking Chinese in six months. The teaching effect is ensured.

4.  Practice of teaching

（1） taught  the first grade pupils from No. 1Primary School, Changxindian, Bejing

（2）taught  four-year old children in Jixian County, Tianjin city

（3）taught  college students from Russia

（4）Article published by BeijingJuveniles on 24^th, Sept. 2002

（5）Article published by Workers Daily on 27^th, Nov. 2002

（6）Reported by Modern Education on 16^th, July, 2003

5.  Book-selling and training course

 Teaching material for home and aborad training course are for sale(including textbook, software, writing pad, Chinese-Foreign Languages dictionary)

 For  Chinese learners, the whole set of teaching material is 598 RMB yuan（including  postage）.

 For foreign learners, the whole set of teaching material is 100 €（not including  postage）

 e-mail add. 0819zhang@163.com

 Tel. 13661264043