作为汉语老师，当你的学生缺乏信心或者动力的时候，你该怎么办？下面会介绍一种理论供大家借鉴。

Dominic Pote was an amazing ebook-building machine this summer!

Jacob Rodgers, a rising senior at University of Iowa, is a computer science major and amateur musician.

Read what Mike Blood did at AllSet Learning this past summer.

我们都知道孩子的语言天赋，从学会说话到会说一门语言只需要很短的时间。可成年人为什么就无法像孩子那样快速地掌握一门语言？

Read about what Liza Fowler did at AllSet Learning over the summer!

多数的汉语课本第一课都会教“你好吗？”，而且这句话的回答通常是 “我很好”， 这是汉语最基本的句型“Subject + 很 + adj.”，简单易学。不过让外国人困惑的是：中国人在生活中并不用这句话来打招呼，那为什么汉语课本还要教呢？

有人说汉语是世界上最难学的语言。有没有什么方法可以提高学习的趣味性？

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

“了”的基本用法很多人可能都知道，比如说，直接位于动词后表示动作的实现或完成；放在句末表示新情况或者事态的变化，也起成句作用。事实上，当动词带宾语时，“了”就会有一些特殊用法。

This article is a translation of a Sinosplice article by John Pasden (潘吉), founder of AllSet Learning, translated to Chinese for the benefit of Chinese teachers. The original article is in English: Chinese Grammar Points Used by a 2-year-old .

当你遇到很一些无聊的谈话时，那就把这当成他在说：“嗨，我们来聊天吧，虽然我现在还想不出一些好的话题，但是我可能会抛出一些无聊的话题直到你有勇气开始真正的谈话。或者我俩一起被这些话题无聊死。”

在生活中，你有可能会遇到一些这样的人，比如说，喝醉了的人，口齿不清的老人或小孩，先天口吃或者爱咕哝的人。在这些情况下你听不懂其实很正常，并不是你的原因，但你必须想办法去解决这类问题。

Michael Moore has joined the ranks of our legendary IT interns!

学习汉语难吗？究竟学汉语的难点在哪呢？

一个外国人在中国餐厅点餐一共分几步?

We originally launched the Chinese Grammar Wiki in 2012. We honestly didn't think it would be this long before we launched our next free resource, but it turns out fleshing out the Chinese Grammar Wiki was a ton of work (who would have guessed, right?).

中日文学习有哪些不同？

学习者需要学习声调，而是在他们的思想深处有10000个蹩脚的声调需要“扔掉”，只有这样才能达到真正流利的程度。