My Chinese Bridge
A word from the first Chinese teacher in Mostar My name is Xiukun Meng, I am the Chinese teacher at West Mostar University, and the first Chinese teacher in Mostar. I came to Mostar, the most beautiful city in Bosnia and Herzegovina, from China in March 2018, and started my career of Chinese teaching in West Mostar University. The Chinese course in Mostar is Selective C, 30 class periods for each semester. To the students in Mostar university, Chinese is the most novel, but also the most difficult language in the world. In the first semester in 2018, 30 students registered Chinese as their selective course. And I selected HSK 1 as the textbook which unites “examination and application” together and lays stress on training students in the ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing. During my teaching I found the following problems that students had: 1. They could not pronounce Chinese tones correctly, especially the fourth ...