Chinese has hip-hop! It's wonderful to teach English middle school students Chinese by using spoken Chinese

For many foreigners
Learn Chinese as a second language
Can be a huge challenge
but
A London teacher introduced a new way of teaching
Use Chinese rap to make Chinese lessons fun

对很多外国人来说

学习汉语这门第二语言
可能是一项巨大的挑战
但是
一位伦敦老师引入了一种新的教学方式
用中文说唱来让汉语课程变得有趣

Mandarin Rap lessons offered by fortesmere high school in the UK have attracted much attention in the Chinese language teaching community in the UK. Chinese rap class is to add the latest elements of The Times, use Chinese vocabulary and grammar suitable for students' learning level to form rap content, and use the form of recorded rap music to give students appropriate Chinese input.

英国佛提斯米尔中学开设的汉语说唱课（Mandarin Rap Lesson）在英国的汉语教学界备受关注。汉语说唱课堂是通过加入时代的最新元素，运用适合学生学习等级的汉语词汇和语法来组建说唱内容，采用教师录制说唱音乐的形式来给予学生适量的汉语输入。

The teacher who recorded rap took a photo with his classmates

These rap materials are used in listening class to train students' listening ability, and also used in reading and writing class to increase students' vocabulary and master new words in Chinese.

录制rap的教师和同学合影

这些说唱材料运用在学生的听力课堂锻炼学生的听力能力，同时也在阅读和写作课堂上使用，来增加学生的词汇量，掌握汉语的新兴词汇。

MEP Chinese teachers record rap

Recently, Chinese teachers from the Confucius institute fortismere middle school Chinese proficiency program (MEP) of UCL education institute participated in the recording of the latest phase of rap, and the whole creation put forward high requirements for teachers. This creative template will become a listening template for students and a source of new vocabulary input.

MEP项目中文教师录制rap

近期，UCL教育学院孔子学院佛提斯米尔中学汉语培优项目（MEP）的汉语教师参与最新一期rap的录制工作，整个创造对教师提出了很高要求。这一创作范本将会成为学生的听力模板和新兴词汇的输入来源。

'it's easier to remember,' says Adam Moorman, a leading Chinese teacher in a Chinese rap class at fulmiser high school in north London. Chinese is very rhythmic and it is natural to combine Chinese with rap.

"Chinese is a monosyllabic language with limited intonation and many words can rhyme with each other," he said. If you make a rough count, you will find that there are about 400 pronunciations in Chinese and more than 10,000 in English. So it's easier to rhyme in Chinese than in English."

Morman first had his students rap in Chinese to prepare them for an oral test. He says rap makes it easier to remember long texts. Writing and performing rap in Chinese will motivate students to find new inspiration, learn new words and express themselves. Rap requires students to have the ability to create independently, which will help them to express fluently.

Ma ande said that in addition to the training of listening and reading skills, he would also encourage students to create rap content to express their views according to the rap music template and exercise their Chinese writing skills. This class can comprehensively improve students' expression skills.

伦敦北部复米斯尔中学汉语说唱课堂的主导汉语教师马安德(Adam Moorman)表示，说唱更容易让人记住。汉语很有节奏，将汉语和说唱相结合很自然。

他说：“汉语是单音节，声调有限，很多词能彼此押韵。如果大致数一下，就会发现汉语中大约有400种发音，而英语的发音超过了1万种。所以，用汉语说唱比用英语要更容易押韵。”

莫尔曼首先让他的学生用汉语说唱，以此来为他们的口语考试做准备。他说，说唱能使记忆长文本变得更容易。汉语写作和表演说唱会让学生们更有动力去寻找新灵感、学习新单词、表达自己的意思。说唱要求学生有独立创造的能力，而这将有助于他们流畅地表达。

马安德老师表示，除了听力和阅读能力的训练，他也会鼓励学生通过根据说唱音乐模板来创造抒发自己观点的说唱内容，锻炼汉语写作能力，这个课堂可以综合提高学生的表达能力。

Teachers in podcasts uniform pose with classmates

Currently, fortesmore's Chinese rap classes in grade 12 and 13 are very popular with students. This class has the characteristics of innovation and effectiveness of The Times, lively atmosphere, remarkable effect, so that students understand the trend of Chinese expression, enhance Chinese listening, speaking, reading and writing ability, but also improve the majority of British youth interest and confidence in Chinese learning!

穿着播客统一服装的教师和同学合影

目前英国佛提斯米尔的中文说唱课堂在12年级和13年级开设，受到学生的广泛欢迎。这个课堂具有时代创新性和有效性的特点，课堂气氛活泼，效果显著，使学生们了解了汉语的潮流表达，增强了中文的听说读写能力，还提高了广大英国青少年汉语学习的兴趣和信心！

Screenshot of Chinese podcast website

In addition, the school also has its own Chinese language podcast (visit here), which is aimed at students from all over the world who are interested in learning Chinese. In addition to recording the original rap recordings, there are also explanations from Chinese and foreign teachers to help them learn Chinese vocabulary and usage better. The move will also greatly promote the influence of Chinese rap courses worldwide.

汉语播客网站截图

此外，该校还有着自己的汉语播客（点这里访问），面向世界各地热爱学习汉语的学生，里面除了记录以往的说唱原片录音之外，还有中外老师的讲解，帮助大家更好地学习汉语词汇和用法。这一举措也将大大推广汉语说唱课程在世界范围内的影响。

enjoy
Learning a language is a journey. There are all kinds of twists and turns, dead ends and even accidents along the way. Let us learn to enjoy, this is a kind of enjoyment.

confidence
There is a saying in Slovakia: "the more languages you know, the more human you are." Speaking another language, you need to relax and change your personality to adapt. Pretending to be a rapper can help you overcome your awkwardness.

fluent
Speaking well requires a lot of repetition. How can you make it fun instead of repetitive and boring? Practice your rap until it sounds smooth.

Independent learning
We learn languages to express ourselves, not to be advised by textbooks, teachers or exams. Get a theme, get an idea, and write a rap about it. You'll find the words you need in the process.

享受

学习一门语言是一段旅程。一路上有各种各样的迂回曲折、死胡同甚至是事故。让我们学习的是享受，这是一种享受。

信心
在斯洛伐克有一句谚语：“你知道的语言越多，你就越有人情味。”说另一种语言，你需要放松，改变你的个性来适应。假装是一个饶舌歌手可以帮助你克服尴尬。

流利
说得好需要大量的重复。你怎么能让它变得有趣，而不是重复和枯燥呢？练习你的说唱，直到它听起来很流畅。

独立学习
我们学习语言是为了表达自己的想法，而不是教科书、老师或考试的建议。得到一个主题，得到一个想法，然后去写一个关于它的说唱。你会在这个过程中找到你需要的单词。

Tanzi maher, a sixth-grader at fusil middle school, said: "I don't know. Tamzin Sherzad loves this new way of learning. "I got familiar with a lot of new words and popular phrases by writing rap lyrics," she said. "I think it really helped me expand my vocabulary and learn the popular words used by young people in China."

Thanks to this, he is more confident when chatting with his Chinese friends. She will travel to China for a year before going to college, and this way of learning makes her more prepared and excited for her gap year.

复米斯尔中学的六年级学生坦齐?谢萨德（Tamzin Sherzad）很喜欢这种新学习方式。她说：“我通过创作说唱歌词，熟悉了很多新词和流行短语，我觉得这个方式真的使我扩展了词汇量，学到了中国年轻人使用的流行词。”

得益于此，谢萨德在与中国朋友聊天时更加自信。她将在上大学之前到中国旅行一年，而这种学习方式让她对“间隔年”更有准备，也更兴奋。

Staff and students at furmiser high school in north London

Mollmann said, will be introduced to the rap sixth grade students of the course "in a pleasant and memorable way, combine rhythm, rhythm, and lexical repetition, the students' attention from the books boring learning transfer out, let the students obtain independent research, creation, practice opportunities", let their Chinese language more fluently.

Another student, kesha? Keisha Asare has been studying Chinese for five years. "To write rap lyrics, I had to search and learn new words that I probably wouldn't have learned. The rap is very attractive and makes it easier for me to remember new phrases and words I've learned."

伦敦北部的复米斯尔中学的工作人员和学生

莫尔曼表示，将说唱引入到六年级学生的课程中，“用愉快且难以忘怀的方式，将节奏、韵律和词汇重复结合起来，将学生的注意力从书本的枯燥学习中转移出来，让学生们获得独立研究、创作、练习的机会”，让他们的汉语更为流利。

另一名学生凯莎?阿萨雷（Keisha Asare）已经学了五年汉语。她说：“为了写出说唱的歌词，我必须搜寻和学习新词汇，而我本来可能不会学到这些词。这些说唱很吸引人，让我更容易记住我学到的新短语和新词汇。”