Advantages: The live class has been well received by many people around.
Disadvantages: Compared with AI classes, there are fewer interesting elements; It is even more difficult for children with zero foundation.
This is the only live class we have tried so far. Because at that time, the child had no foundation and could not keep up with the progress of the teacher. Foreign teachers try their best to arouse children's interest, but children find it difficult. Besides, compared with those AI classes, there are not so many animations in this class, and the children feel bored. She can't hold on to the 25-minute audition class at all.
Therefore, as everyone said, it is not recommended for children with weak English foundation to attend live classes directly.
2. Zebra English
Advantages: The course is very popular and well-made.
Disadvantages: it's too much like reading a comic book. There was no teacher to explain the process, and we found it difficult at that time.
Many people I know recommend this course to me. Each class consists of eight parts: music, videos, words, stories, oral English, quizzes, reports and zebra barking. The content is quite rich and the picture is beautiful.
Especially in the video part, the short story of about 5 minutes is quite childlike and children like it very much. For example, the lesson about animal words is the story that foreign teachers and zebras found the small animals missing and later found them through footprints.
In the video here, the teacher is participating as a role, without any explanation, or pretending to stop and let the children follow like some AI classes. Without any interaction, it really feels like children are just watching cartoons.
What worries me is that the sentences in the video are difficult for children to understand. Will this have no effect? Looking back now, I feel that my thoughts are a bit arbitrary, because it is understandable that children rely on pictures, but this is another story.
Although I was a little worried at that time, children liked it after all. If we don't meet a cheaper, less difficult class that children like better, I think we might choose zebra.
3. Grape English
Advantages: it is easier for children to understand when the teacher explains (both Chinese and foreign teachers can).
Disadvantages: It has always been a mode that the teacher explains on one side of the screen, with a single form.
My friend said that their children like grape English, so we bought a two-week experience class.
It is a real-life AI class, and the teacher keeps explaining on the left side of the screen to guide the children to learn. Not only foreign teachers, but also Chinese teachers are very friendly to children with weak English foundation. I know that many mothers prefer an all-English environment and think it is conducive to the cultivation of English thinking, but I personally have no obsession with all-English.
After two weeks of study, children can remember the words and sentences inside, and the effect is good. However, every day the teacher sits there and explains, and the children feel monotonous. Moreover, my child is a little confused about whether it is live broadcast or recorded broadcast, so she thinks that a teacher has been talking to her at the scene and feels quite nervous ... So, on the whole, my child doesn't like this form.
Furthermore, Grape English helps children remember by following, and children will be impatient if they follow too many times. In addition, I personally think that grape English teachers are also rather dull and not so humorous, which may be the reason why children don't like it very much.
Of course, it must also be said here that no matter which class I consider, it is actually based on the performance of the children and my personal feelings. But every child is really different, so experience is for reference. I suggest you have a chance to try your own class.
4. Xiao Li's English thinking class
Advantages: It's interesting to have a teacher to explain.
Disadvantages: it is always in the form of teacher's explanation on one side of the screen, which is a bit monotonous.
The form of this class is quite similar to that of Grape English, which is to imitate the live class and let the teacher appear on the screen to explain.
But compared with Grape English, the teacher often guides children with exaggerated expressions and gestures. The child likes this teacher very much and thinks that the teacher is playing games with her-seeing the clumsy performance of the teacher who once selected people to spit zebras on the APP, in fact, for Xiao Baobao, they often really like exaggerated performances.
Although I like this teacher, because of this every day, the children gradually lose interest. By the way, this course is actually taught by the head teacher. We had a five-day experience class first. Later, for some reasons, we hoarded some classes and punched in slowly, but the children's interest was really not high-they felt guilty while writing. In fact, many mothers suggest not to hoard classes. ...
5, step by step enlightenment
Advantages: The teacher explains in the animation, which is more relaxed and interesting.
Disadvantages: the animation content itself is monotonous.
Different from Grape English, Xiao Li English and Zebra English, his family is a teacher, who participates in animation to explain to children and takes them to read and do problems. Moreover, there are four foreign teachers taking turns to appear, and the sense of monotony has also decreased a lot. Relatively speaking, this is our preferred way of interaction.
I think the course arrangement is also good. Four classes a week: there are alphabet enlightenment classes, alphabet vocabulary classes and scientific cognition classes in the early stage, and more natural spelling classes will be added in the later stage.