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Frequently Asked Questions |
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What
is Sing2Learn? |
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Sing2Learn is "Learning Languages by Singing" through patterns, repetitions,
pictures, stories, and DVD animations. This is the most powerful, effective,
and fun approach for learning foreign languages.
We would like to ensure that you will be able to communicate in real-life
situations by providing you Q&A role-play.
With more than 700 plus role-play question and answers, they are according
to DVD animation and topic to the lesson.
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What
are Sing2Learn products based on? |
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Sing2learn products are based on
the Mom's Choice Award winning book
"The Best Way to Learn Foreign Languages" by company
founder Anthony Chang.
Judges on the award panel included:
* Founder of PBS's Reading Rainbow
*Creator of Baby Einstein
*A New York Times best-selling author
*Creator of Dunstan Baby Language
*Host of NBC's "Manners Minutes" |
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What's
the most important mindset for learning language? |
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- Be informed about the benefits like boosting your confidence, gaining better skills, becoming more independent, etc.
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Learn from the experts. Think like a baby,
so it is easy for you to mimic and copy.
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Don’t be afraid to make any mistakes.
When you have a chance, speak up and speak out.
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Don’t try to ask questions while you
first start learning, listening, and conversing. Every question
can be a stop sign because language-learning is different
from other subjects such as math and physics.
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What
is the number one mistake that causes people to give up learning
foreign languages? |
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What
is the most natural, effective approach to learning a language? |
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Sing2learn! Using
melody and music, our approach starts from listening, babbling,
mimicking, and speaking; this is the same way you learned your
mother language, step by step. |
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What
are the major problems of learning foreign languages today? |
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1. not fun
2. not effective
3. not step by step, but starting from reading, writing and grammar
4. not according to a student’s knowledge level
5. not enough two-way communication
6. not accessible anywhere, anytime (only learning in class) |
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What
is the most practical approach to learning a language? |
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The Most Practical Approach = Sing2Learn
+ The Most Natural Approach
The Sing2Learn approach: Learn languages
by singing, combining patterns, repetitions, pictures, stories,
and DVD animations.The most effective, natural approach
is a step-by-step approach, starting with listening, mimicking,
and speaking.
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Learning a language is just like
learning how to swim. Imagine you hire the best Olympic swimmer
to teach your kids, but they don’t have a swimming pool.
They pass all the exams, so one day you decide to take them to
go swim. You go buy some snacks, but, when you come back, what
happened to your kids? All your kids will have drowned because
they never applied what they learned to real life.
So, to know, to understand or even to experience a second language
is important, but to know how to apply is the key to success.
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Why
does Sing2Learn have the most effective evaluation tools? |
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Evaluation of student learning
can often be a challenge. To encourage others to enforce standards
present in their educational community, Sing2Learn has made an
effort to be flexible in areas that are still being debated, giving
the teacher the chance and availability to use our product as
a learning tool to supplement their own preferred teaching styles.
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How does S2L quantify the process
of language learning? Simple! |
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We have several assessment
tools to gauge a student’s progress (270 topics for
each language). We have designated our assessments in the following
categories: Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing. |
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A.
Listening and Speaking: |
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Can the student sing the entire
song? With or without the lyrics? Can the student repeat the song,
in natural speech? An outstanding student would replace words
of similar structures (say a noun for another noun) and usurp
the song as his or her own story to tell. Pronunciation is a standard
accounted for in this category. |
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B.
Reading: |
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We assess a student’s reading
ability through five standards of reading comprehension: Reading,
Understanding, Comprehending, Analyzing, and Applying. |
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C.
Writing: |
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We have separated our writing assessment
into four standards: Topic, Grammar, Writing style, and Punctuation.
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What
are the solutions for today's language-learning problems? |
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Sing2Learn can solve all the problems
in learning a foreign language today:
1. Fun! Who doesn’t like to sing or see interesting animations?
2. Effective! When singing, you have motivation. If you have motivation,
then learning will be effective.
3. Step by step, Sing2learn uses a step-by-step approach.
The traditional approach starts from reading, grammar, and writing.
Our approach starts from listening, mimicking, and speaking;
this is the key to building your learning language confidence.
This is the same way you learned your native language.
Please remember-- if you cannot crawl, how can you walk?
4. Our levels go by knowledge level,
not age.
We have a complete product line with eight knowledge levels covering
from toddler to adult (3 beginner, 3 intermediate, and 2 advanced).
Every language has 270 songs.
With this foundation, we begin evaluating listening, speaking,
reading, and writing; this will provide a very accurate assessment
tool for any level.
5. Our product provides perfect two-way communication.
A.Each DVD animation contain hundreds and thousands of pictures
with very creative and positive ideas; this should spark the teacher’s
motivation and enthusiasm, as well as capture students’attention
and inspiration. At any time, the teacher can pause and
use the animation frame to ask questions to tell the story, to
have activities, or create synergistic discussions.
B. Our Teacher’s Manual and Teacher’s
Manual CD provide lots of Q&A as reference for native speakers
and are also specifically designed for the non-native-speaking
teacher to use in class or anywhere for Q&A activities.
6. Our product package weighs less than one pound
and was designed to be portable and convenient, so you can learn
in the car with our CD, or at home with our DVD, or anywhere on
vacation with our portable product. |
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Why
are our teacher's manual and CD the best? |
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Teachers already know how to teach,
right? Of course! Still, Sing2Learn is your friend! We want to
make language learning something fun and effective. Our team knows
that it can sometimes be a challenge for a teacher’s confidence
to teach a second language; as a result, Sing2Learn has created
the Teacher’s Manual CD! This CD is a unique addition to
our product line, specifically designed for the
non-native-speaking teacher to use!
Sing2Learn knows everyone can be successful when effective instruction
and a learner’s best effort are combined. The Sing2Learn
team has created Q and A style questions to give more resources
to the teacher who may feel less confident in their instruction
due to their own pronunciation concerns and/or the fear that their
own issues may affect student learning. Pronunciation is a skill
that takes much refinement since accurate pronunciation is the
spine of clear communication. With our Teacher’s Manual
CD, second language teachers can now enjoy this additional resource
to master all their skills. |
