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 Need inspiration for your Chinese lessons? Look no further!Whether you are a first time student on ChineseTeachers.com or a long time student, there may come a time when you scratch you head and wondered "What next?". No, we don't mean the bigger questions you have about life, but for moments after you completed your registration, browsed and found the teachers to have lesson with, but then wondered what will happen in the lesson, or maybe you have been studying with a text book for a while, but the content or the format of the lesson is starting to get a little bit too predictable and you want to jazz up things but lacking some inspiration? Two of the most common questions we receive from our students are questions about what textbook to buy, and where to find study materials relating to a topic of interest. Maybe you had those questions in mind too? Did you know the answer to those questions above is actually within your reach? There are many different free resources offered on our website after you login, and you can browse them leisurely as off-line reading material, or use them as your lesson material to study live with our teachers. Here is a quick guide to all the fabulous resources at your disposal: After you have logged in, you will see the icon bar with 6 main tool categories, click on "My Documents". Now, how do you find all the free resources we mentioned? Here is your treasure hunt map decoded :-) 1. My Study Materials > From My Teachers Our teachers are great at producing customized study materials for their students. Whether it's to recapture the dialogues created during your last lesson, to provide a more detailed explanation on difficult grammar points or to offer additional reading materials requested by you, some even create mock HSK questions whilst others offer name selections or recipes. The best thing about this section is that it's all about YOU. So don't be shy, if there is anything you want to ask the teachers to prepare for you, whether if before your next lesson, or to supplement what you have studied during a lesson, simply ask the teacher during a lesson, or send them a quick message via their profile icon, we have seen so many different type of study materials created by our teachers that we can be confident to say this: If you ask, you will get it! 2. Premium Study Material > Nciku study materials There are four different levels offer by Nciku, exclusively on ChineseTeacher.com: First Timer, Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. Each Nciku study material deals with a new topic, such as introducing yourself, getting to the airport, holding a meeting… and provides various types of content to support your online class: new vocabulary, conversation, picture word lists, chéngyǔ … There are 3 free materials for First Timer, and 1 free material for each of the other 3 categories! And you can get more free materials when you introduce us to your friends. 3. Premium Study Materials > ChineseHacks study materials All the materials here are free for students on ChineseTeachers.com. The study materials are split into 3 different levels: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. A wide range of topic are covered in these materials, they give examples from common everyday life, current affairs and typical idioms. Whether your are an IT fanatics or a fashion enthusiast, ChineseHacks study materials just might offer the inspiration you are looking for! 4. Premium Study Materials > ChinesePod Study Materials > Free Lessons (Level: Newbie) The quality of the ChinesePod study materials requires no introduction! There are 3 FREE audio lesson dialogues and supporting materials (transcripts, translations & key vocabulary) offered here to all our students on ChineseTeachers.com. If you are new to learning Chinese, why not try these fun introductory lessons from ChinesePod, each containing ultra-useful language for everyday life. But if you are already a member of the ChinesePod community, then don't forget you can also import your bookmarked ChinesePod lessons, or use the ChinesePod PDF transcripts as study materials for your lessons here on ChineseTeachers.com. 5. Premium Study Materials > Practice-Chinese.com blog posts From time to time, our teachers also create study materials and post them on the Practice-Chinese.com blog website, which is open to everyone. You can subscribe to the blog, leave comments and interact with fellow Chinese learning students and our teachers, but please don't stop at just reading the blog. There are about 50 posts available so far, and these are split into 4 different categories: First Timer, Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. If we spot a good piece of study materials our teachers produced for you, we will also invite them to post it on the blog, which means that by checking this section, you will benefits from the good materials our other students have received from their teachers!  Star News of the Month: NEW ChineseHacks Study MaterialsReason to be Star News of the Month: OK, so we know you are expecting to see another fabulous teacher being recommended here, but this month, we though the timing is perfect to share a different kind of recommendation, the following study materials with all brand new topics will be added to the ChineseHacks series coming soon, so if you haven't discovered ChineseHacks study materials yet, the next time you log in, we highly recommend you to check them out! New Topic coming soon: - Beginner Level: 11 new posts, including essential sentence patterns like: 不仅是。。。更是，一边。。。一边，不只。。。还有 - Intermediate Level: 6 new posts, including idioms 风风雨雨，宝刀未老，自由自在。 - Advance Level: "Microsoft Buys Skype for $8.5bn" Happy Studying! The ChineseTeachers.com Team ChineseTeachers.com - Bringing native Mandarin teachers to everyone in the world  Want to receive free study materials?  Want to know more about us? Read our progress since 2007 in our News page.  Want to unsubscribe? Simply reply 'stop' (you can opt-back-in later from your Profile page). |