Dear Elinor

I was just wondering whether you were at the conference on Friday (I wasn't there on Saturday)?  I would love to have met you, as I think your 'Fun and easy Chinese' book is brilliant.  Would love to have chatted to you about that and what you do.  I'm so impressed with your ability to have done that and would love to have found out more about what inspired you and how you went about doing that.  I think the resources for teaching Mandarin to children are still quite poor and uninspired.  Do you have any plans to produce more?  I imagine it was a lot of hard work producing that book.  Was it self-financed?  I really like the idea of combining Mandarin with creativity which you have done so well.

I am also a Mandarin graduate and teach both primary and secondary, but mainly as clubs.

Best wishes

Ruth Winnifrith 

On 11 Jun 2015, at 22:44, Elinor Duffy wrote:

Hello. All that sounds great. I'll be there! I teach primary Mandarin and would love to meet up on Saturday to get some new ideas. I have a few books and apps up my sleeve too!

Elinor Duffy

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On 11 Jun 2015, at 22:36, Pepe Amian <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi all,

We are giving a workshop on the IOE Conference on Saturday at 14:30 "Integrating technology in the Mandarin class-room” in which we present the experience of 7 year olds learning Mandarin using iPads. You are welcome to attend the workshop and also to visit our stand.

Best,

Pepe Amian

Better Chinese Europe

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On 11 Jun 2015, at 23:10, hcsimps <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Great, Martin!
I'll definitely come and visit your stand on Saturday!
Harriet



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Dear All, 

Thanks for the very interesting emails. 

We have a some people in our team who specialise in teaching Mandarin at primary level (including 4-7 year olds). In fact, aside from all our blended learning products (www.primaryschoolchinese.com), we are also releasing an animated cartoon series to teach Mandarin Chinese later this year – it would be great to show you this. We have a stand at the IOE conference – please do come and see us..

Best

Marcus

Dragons in Europe

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It would be great to meet up with other people teaching Mandarin to 4-7 year olds. Is anyone going to the conference on the Saturday and would fancy arranging to meet up there to swap ideas for activities and resources?
Harriet


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