寓教于乐

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I would like to confirm that 寓教于乐 means "to learn in an entertaining way" and that the pinyin is yùjiào yúlè (are the tones correct?).

What would be a natural translation for this? By natural, I mean, a way that it would be said by an English speaker, given the same context, to naturally give the same meaning.

Ex: 儿童学英语寓教于乐

A fun way for children to learn English ??

[yansong.mao]

The tones of it is correct

[hifrank001]

I'm an English-learner.

Ex1: 孩子们通过做游戏学习英语，寓教于乐。

Children learn English by playing game, (which is a a fun way of education.

Here, this idiom is used as a remark, which is the most common way also.

Ex2: 我们要用一种寓教于乐的方式来激发同学们的兴趣

We should adopt an entertaining way to raise students' interest.

It is a adjactive in the second example

[liger]

You understanding is exactly correct. However, the sentense you make:

儿童学英语寓教于乐

is not a proper use.

In my opinion, 寓教于乐 is kind of teaching approaches instead of learning methods. Therefore, In china, 寓教于乐 is always a teachers' or educators' sentence.

ha, I'm not a native English, I hope I express what I mean

[bokane]

I'd say you could safely translate it as "edu-tainment" in contexts where it's being used as a noun.