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Jules Espino erwin guile my man!!!!
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His classes are very chill, you'd feel like you are in a forum rather than in a class. You would be discussing contemporary and timely issues which imo helped me understand why China behaves in this certain way. Overall, the class is A-able with effort. He grades based on your essay per module, one presentation, finals, and a final paper. There are no quizzes and homework!! He also gives a lot of bonus talks and papers.more
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I had him for another Chinese class but I can assure you that you are in good hands. Participate in class and submit the necessary requirements and you'll be fine. Very B+/A-able prof with effort.more
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I think CSP profs are generally great. Show your interest and eagerness to learn the language and the culture, and you'll be fine.
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Sir Dizon is a very chill prof in a rather chill class. He gave us the opportunity for plus points by attending a seminar, and we even played mahjong once. As all CSP/CHN classes, we use simplified. If someone w/ background in the language is in the basic class (11), there's definitely some slight expectation that they'd do better especially in pronunciation. If not, I think Sir Dizon is a bit more forgiving and considerate.
He teaches vocabulary, basic sentence construction, and proper pronunciation from the lesson PDFs that he gives out, and he makes each student recite the words from the lesson's vocabulary and corrects if necessary.
He also made us do voice recordings of Chinese tongue twisters, 1-100 in Chinese, self-introduction, etc. Also had homework where we just had to make sentences from specific words taught in the lesson (which we had to record ourselves speaking as well) or answer questions that use words taught in the lesson.
Type of test involves translating a Chinese word to English (can't remember if vice versa too), rearranging the given Chinese words to form a coherent sentence, and translating a whole sentence from Chinese to English and vice versa. I think the same goes for those w/o background.
Iirc, the distribution is like 25 identification, 5 multiple choice. The opposite goes for those w/o background. I can't remember if they had to extensively remember how the words are written in Chinese or if pinyin sufficed tho.
Idk if he grades high in voice recordings and orals as well bc we never got our grades for the former before auto-pass. Haven't been through his orals, but I remember him saying that it's just you introducing yourself and talking about something in Chinese. But yeah, the tests were doable and it was an overall fun, chill class. Would definitely recommend!more