We need to focus on what is the best for promoting Chinese language and culture education. If there are commonly used simplified characters and people are not confused about them, we can surely use them. For those simplified characters that cause more trouble to learn Chinese, we should not use them. However, I must emphasize that there is a difference between “簡體字” and “簡化字”. 簡體字” has its history and those changes are gradual, they are “約定俗成”. Yes, 秦始皇 used potical power to standardize Chinese characters but the reason to standardize them was for better communications. The purpose of “簡化字” was much worse. Besides, even “簡體字” followed 六書 so the structure of Chinese characters are maintained.

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余教授您好

書已於今天早上收到，一共是正簡版第一冊兩本
第三冊二十五本。

想請教余教授二月出版第四冊後
是否將繼續出版到十冊甚至更高冊數呢?

非常謝謝您的幫忙

湯竹芬

Fancia

From: Yu Boris
To: Fancia Tang
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 8:58:50 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Fw: 生活華語K1-3與正簡版1-4

Dear 湯校長:
農曆年放假九天
我在南部網咖給你回信
用快遞
但我不確認除夕前是否已經寄出?
若未寄出,2月1日上班日快遞寄出
YU

在 2009/1/25，Fancia Tang 撰寫：

余教授您好

我想可能需要快遞，本人得於二月初寄出教材申請表給代表處轉台灣僑委會，
如果可以在二月之前到達美國，本人便可以轉交本交BTrack教師研究，
本校最近已請老師針對教材問題討論，我想應該可以很快作成決議。
謝謝您

如果有問題麻煩您不吝賜教

湯竹芬

Fancia

Thank you so much for sharing your success. I would love to do what you have done for the past years. However, I had to keep putting it aside year after year. I did demonstrated Chinese calligraphy and told simple story of the Nien to Lauren’s class last year, but that was it… If information can be shared with one another, all of us can certainly make difference, more kids will benefit from our efforts and Chinese culture can be broadcasted better. I appreciate you share your template and format with us.

Happy Chinese New Year!

Michelle

Thank you for your template and beautiful pictures. I am very excited to know that there are more and more people from Chinese school community dedicating their time and effort showing our culture. I would like to echo that it indeed is a very rewarding experience. This is the kind of story we need to share and hear.

I am still doing the Chinese New Year presentations to schools, community centers, corporations and senior centers. Depends on the audiences, I also introduced Kitchen God (灶神), Chinese couplets (春 聯), Chinese zodiac (十二生肖), story of the Nien, New Year’s Eve get-together dinner (年夜飯), 拜年, the Lantern Festival (元宵節), and Lunar calendar (農曆). If your child(ren) has talents such as Chinese Yo-Yo, paper arts, and/or Tai-Chi (or other Chinese martial arts) it is also a great opportunity to demonstrate.

We have been talking for years to provide some type of information sharing sessions to teachers and parents about outside presentations of Chinese culture especially Chinese New Year but it did not work due to short month in December and busy activities in January. If there are any ideas on how to do this or improve it please share your thoughts.

Happy Chinese New Year! 祝您牛轉乾坤行大運

Best Regards,
Tommy,

若還有漏掉的地方，均請不吝直接告知，不要客氣，謝謝嘍。
YU

Comments on 華語通 [E-pen] Level 3: There are two problems I see with this material. One is that the CD from 生活華語 does not correlate with the lessons from 華語通. So the class doesn’t have any ready made CD or other audio support to go with this material. The other is that I sense that 華語通 simply has more English explanations and translations than 生活華語, but it is not exactly written with the B-track students in mind. There are many exercises in Workbook B that are simply beyond the ability of my students.

To tie up the loose ends among our students (who have all come from different teachers and different tracks in the past) I have been using IQchinese Pinyin and Go100 as supplementary material for the class. I see great progress in pinyin and in character recognition. I am now also starting to get my students to recite from memory the main text (chants) of each lesson. Hopefully this will also get them to increase their listening comprehension and verbal response.

IQchinese’s Reader 3.5 is not a recommended product for teacher or student. Sometimes the pronunciation is not accurate.

IQchinese’s Quiz is good. I can see it being a good medium for a teacher to setup exercises for character recognition and pinyin typing. As a teacher I can setup a Quiz with vocabulary from 華語通 [E-pen]or from any source text.

If IQchinese were to become standard supplementary material for the B-track (a move that I can really recommend) I would like to see the school to be able to lock in on a sale price for the IQchinese products. However much I like Go100, it is not worth their standard published price on their website.

在 2009/1/21，Yu Boris 撰寫：

Dear Tommy,
好久不見，剛剛給湯校長回信後，才看到你在英文信裡提到的問題
「Do you know how many books will be published? I am concerned about how
to connect students after book 4. Thanks.」
回答如下：
經由近三年的溝通與努力，正簡版已經確認為新的政策方向，
生活華語正簡版第一批1-4冊於二月底出版完畢，已列入僑委會清單，因此不必擔心銜接的問題。
第二批5-7冊跟進完成。貴校即將收到的正簡版第三冊可以教五課，下月接獲的正簡版第4冊可以預備做為銜接，

另往下銜接到K1-3（含主課本、活動課本與CD），B Track零程度學生，可由K1-3開始銜接到正簡版第1冊。
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YU

I am forwarding this mail from our b track publisher to you. I hope it will help you more when you discuss the textbooks.

Thanks n regards,

Fancia

—– Forwarded Message —-
From: Yu Boris
To: Fancia Tang
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:19:30 AM
Subject: 生活華語K1-3與正簡版1-4

湯校長：
去年年底僑務委員會議與校長代表回國，不分藍綠強烈建議僑委會供應華語通給中文學校，以免學生流失。
貴校走在全球中文學校的最前面。
根據與僑委會討論的結果，華語通正式更名為「生活華語正簡版」，課數與正體字版相同。僑委會已經正式將正簡版1-4冊列入選書清單，不知你看到沒？未來貴校使用正簡版將可由僑委會免費供應了。生活華語正體字版前三冊也出第二版，加入英文與語法句型全圖練習等。
正簡版第三冊有一半以上（六課）是原華語通第四冊的內容，已經正式印出。貴校5B若要使用，麻煩告知。
另外，K1-3也已經列入選書清單，清單內目前只列課本，貴校若用K1-3，可加列「K1-3音樂CD與習作」。
余伯泉

在 2008/9/19，Fancia Tang 撰寫：

余教授您好，

因為擔心第四冊會來不及運到，加上學生程度考量，本校目前B track最高班5B和3B都用華語通第三冊教材，明年再做調整。
謝謝您趕工第四冊，如果可以在本學期結束前寄到，或許5B仍可以用上，如此就不會有銜接上的問題。

謝謝
湯竹芬

Fancia

—– Original Message —-
From: Yu Boris
To: haoyu
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 12:00:31 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: 華語通第一冊電腦光碟

湯校長：
貴校已經開學，第四冊我們尚未寄給你。
不知貴校的處理方式為何？你有何建議？

謝謝你對新版第一冊的肯定，目前我們跳過第2,3冊，直接排版新版第4冊。
按理先處理第2,3冊再處理第4冊，較好處理。

余伯泉

在 2008/9/18，Yu Boris 撰寫：

麻煩Sonia瞭解與回復湯校長。謝謝。

在 2008/9/18，haoyu 撰寫：

From: Fancia Tang
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 11:12 PM
To: Yu
Subject: Re: 華語通第一冊電腦光碟

余教授您好，

華語通第一冊 EPen光碟經老師和本校副校長測試後，發現無法使用，副校長本身在microsoft工作 他猜測是電腦軟體太舊。
可否有補救方式?

第一冊習作已收到了，非常謝謝您幫忙。本校由於已經開學，所以不便更改使用新版第一冊，但是將於明年開始使用，我大致看過內容，覺得比舊版更好，應該會對學生有幫助。

湯竹芬
Fancia

—– Original Message —-
From: Yu
To: Yu Boris
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:52:01 AM
Subject: Re: 華語通第四冊和第三冊之ＣＤ光碟

余伯泉 教授：

您好！華語通(1)習作AB各25套已於9月12日以郵局快捷寄出。

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From: Yu Boris
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: 華語通第四冊和第三冊之ＣＤ光碟

豪毓＆Sonia，
適用雙語班的華語通新版第1冊習作AB今天已經全部印出，
麻煩用郵局快遞再補寄給湯校長。
余

2008/9/10 Fancia Tang

余教授

日前已收到您寄來的光碟與第一冊課本

本校已開學

我會和老師討論是否更改課本

非常感謝您如此費心

一再寄來課本

祝您中秋節愉快

Fancia