At the beginning, I have chosen a Chinese textbook with cassettes and you will listen a lot to conversational Chinese. Preferable the conversational Chinese Mandarin Textbook in my signature as its audio is sentence by sentence which makes a lot easier for students to get along with.
Then I ask the students to listen as much as possible before the class. For the first class, I will ask the students to practice speaking Chinese with me step by step. By listening a lot, he just can speak well and listen well. In the meantime, I think he has learned Pinyin.
Thanks to information technology, we can do something more.
That is , using what you have listened and learned about pinyin, the student will be able to write Chinese with computer via IME pinyin . Just from the SECOND lesson, at the very beginning, I ask the student to type Chinese. and he does do it. He is able to write Chinese as good as any Chinese person
Amazing!!!