Ludic Chinese language learning method with tactile HYPA keyboard

Dates & timetable:

Application for this micro-credential is closed for academic year 2024/2025 and it will be renewed in academic year 2025/2026.

Description:

Experiment the possibility of a same writing for all languages by learning Chinese language in an innovative way with HYPA (Hyper Pinyin Alphabet) tools invented at La Rochelle University.
After an introduction to those innovative tools, this micro-credential will concentrate to a first guidance step in practical phonetic exercises in Mandarin Chinese. Those exercises which will be proposed to be done in parallel with encoding specific gestures on those HYPA tools. In conclusion, the translation of those gestures in the languages of the different members attending those micro-credits courses, will help the participants to perceive more concretely the power of the basic paradigm of the Chinese writing system which is a same writing for different languages. The Chinese intuition that a common writing system for many different languages is so much unknown by Westerners that they do not even imagine what could be a Europe sharing a same writing system, as Chinese do. The training would help students to get just a first concrete glimpse of this intuition.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Show a basic knowledge of Chinese language.
2. Demonstrate a first level of oral proficiency.

Sustainable development goals:

• SDG4: Quality education
• SDG10: Reduced inequalities
• SDG11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

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