A Chinese homeschooled learner’s showcase
In another article, I mentioned that my Chinese handwriting was not very good. But it wasn’t just my handwriting, my Chinese speaking and reading skills were not good either. Why? Because after I dropped out of school 5 years ago, I focused all my attention on English; which did pay off considering I am writing […]
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I want to get better at writing articles and stories in Chinese. And the only way to do that is to practice and actually write! Doing things you’re not good at isn’t enjoyable at all. So I decided to start by writing only one article/story/whatever with at least 200 characters every day. My goal was […]
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I practiced my English writing a couple of different ways these years. I started writing a novel about super-intelligent pigs, did writing exercises, read textbooks… This year, I took a different approach, my method was to first read a news/magazine article, and then write my own version, describing the same things. After that, I would […]
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One of my dad’s friends is making an underwater goggle that can record, so when you dive, it records first-person footage. He wanted to make a video promoting at a crowdfunding event called Indiegogo. He wanted to make the video in English but he wasn’t good at it, so he reached out to me for […]
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I mainly focused on English, and that was very useful, but the downside is that I didn’t have that much time to learn Chinese. My own System I didn’t use the Chinese textbooks in this project, instead, I have my own system, I read poems every morning and I also read books and write articles every day. […]
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We bought a LOT of picture books at one point in time because we wanted to do a project called the “Story Show”. But even after that project ended, we still had a more than 100 picture books, so I made it my life goal to read them all. For a long time, I just […]
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The Germ Play is a Play written by Ryan Emily and I. As you can tell from the title this play involves Germs, it’s about two germs Gerky and Germy (me!) taking over a human body! They came into the human from a huge cut in his foot, they traveled to the cell bar (a […]
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Process This whole book started as a group drawing, which is a drawing that a group makes. This group includes me, Brendan, and Emily, 3 learners at the Base. In a group drawing, you take turns drawing, and each person has 20 seconds. After 20 seconds, you need to stop what you’re drawing and pass […]
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I like doing creative writing because I can write down something that I imagined and that makes me really excited and want to write more. I started doing creative writing when I dropped out of school and started to learn at home, even though now I think what I wrote then is pretty bad, it […]
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I read a magic tree house book about Pirates, and I wanted to do a project about them. I decided to write a play and wrote the Pirate Play 1: Discovering Captain Morra’s Treasure. Kyle, Brendan and I rehearsed it for a few weeks and Cassie helped make some costumes and we made the set […]
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