![]() While she doesn’t make any claims to being a Mandarin teacher, because she taught English while living in Taiwan Shei has an idea of what language-learners need. She tries to keep each week’s lesson under five minutes. The whole process takes about an hour a week. “YouTube has a function where you can record directly from a web cam,” she says, so she just sits down in front of the computer, goes to her YouTube channel and runs through the week’s lesson. Just Shei (辥, pronounced Shay) and the video camera on her laptop. The purpose of the podcast is not only to provide the definition and pronunciation of the week’s vocabulary, which can be found easily on the internet, but to provide a more nuance explanation of how to use the words, a quickie lesson on related Chinese grammar, and finish off with an easy phrase the parents can practice with their kids. Not every family could afford a tutor. Shei, who learned Mandarin hardly at all in Saturday Chinese school growing up, and mostly by living in Taiwan for three years, felt that there was a need to bridge the gap between Mandarin and non-Mandarin speaking parents. It all started because non-Mandarin speaking parents were feeling helpless when it came to their children’s Chinese homework. ![]() ![]() That’s all the Starr King Elementary school parent needed to launch her career as a homework-helping broadcaster with her own channel on YouTube. It hasn’t taken much to turn 1st grade mom Judy Shei into a YouTube celebrity – a computer, some index cards and a marker.
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