kurtinchina Posted February 5, 2011 at 07:11 AM Report Posted February 5, 2011 at 07:11 AM I am not sure how many people are aware of what Open CourseWare is. MIT started it. All of MIT's undergraduate courses are available to download. They have videos of the classes, tests, and homework assignments, all free to download. I have teamed up with a Chinese school and have provided an open courseware site for learning Chinese. The program is free to download, no registration required. It has two text books that are studied side by side, the Grammar Text (322 pages) and the Workbook (283 pages). Each Workbook lesson has an accompanying MP3 sound file that has recordings of all the dialogs and new words. The Grammar Text has complete grammar explanations combined with ample usage examples and the Workbook has dialogs, exercises and speaking activities. You don’t have to be an expert on grammar to use this program. The only grammatical terms used in this program are verb, noun, adjective, subject and object. We have chosen to begin by teaching sentences that use the Subject-Verb-Object sentence pattern because it is familiar to English speakers and makes learning as intuitive as possible. Have a look for yourself. www.chineseocw.com Quote
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