Maurice Hazan and his team have articulated an effective way to create spontaneous speech with children and adults. Anyone who believes visuals can be useful to teach 1, 2 or 3 languages  will first hand experience Hazan’s method by learning Japanese in this short session.

Bilingual Fair at Hunter College, October 3, 2015

下面我将为您介绍QTALK BLOCKS。 这是一款专门为智能型交互电子白板设计的革命性教学软件. 它允许你将任何句子以视觉化的形式传递给学生，甚至在他们还不可以阅读汉字的情况下。

Introducing QTalk Blocks. A revolutionary software for your smart board. It allows to you to visualize any sentence to students who cannot yet read Chinese characters.

Chinese Teachers can pull visual images into a series to make picture sentences - just like using Q-Cards, but easier, because everything is online.

Maurice Hazan's QTalk visual mnemonics for Chinese now offer more choices. Educators can order the Q-Cards with Simplified Chinese Characters displayed on the Q-Card, as a re-inforcement of neural connection, aiding memory and language acquisition. This photo is from our booth at the National Chinese Language Conference (NCLC).

Comic books and textbooks

The word "textbook" sounds boring. A "comic book" promises adventure, laughter, fun. The new mantra is "teach the way students learn," so let's replace textbooks with comic books, or at least with books that promise adventure.

We're not talking about multi-media, special effects, glitter or pizzazz, nor do we endorse "dumbing down" to a common denominator. Rather, we mean the magic of comics and illustrated novels, with the kind of creative illustration that says a human being made this, a human consciousness is at the other side of this. Such artwork can draw the viewer/reader into an imagined world, can expand the inner field of vision, can proclaim that the project is unfinished, and thus begs to be added to.

Teachers often say, "I learn as much or more from my students, as they learn from me." What if the learning-books we provided our children expressed this mutuality: "I am here for you, and you are here for me." A song is not real until someone sings it. The learning-book has no value until the student engages with it.

Seeing is believing! Maurice Hazan's innovative QTalk method of language instruction uses a unique system of deeply intuitive visual mnemonics. Oral development is accelerated, leading to improved memory and language acquisition. Excellent approach for visual learners, kinaesthetic learners, students with dyslexia, attention disorders, or any student who thinks language class is "too hard."

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