For my assignment 2, I'm back to Chinese Island to look into Chinese language and culture study, I found this restaurant, just to see how the designer set up this kind of language study.
Many tables in this restaurant and on each table there has menus, click on it a notecard will pop up on the screen and teach numbers with counting units. Also provided audios to listen. All cards wrote in Pinyin, Chinese characters and English. The video on this wall shows basic knowledge of dumplings, even I watched it, very good video.
Furthermore, many typical Chinese dishes are cooking, I could get a notecard with an introduction of the food by click on it. For learning a foreign language is always good to start with food, and here students can actually see how it looks like and get the recipe.
Speak about China, tea couldn't be missed out, here students could listen to the introduction of different types of tea and where and how people drink it. Both English and Chinese are provided.
Going upstairs, non-Chinese would be surprised by the squat toilet and the avatar can experience by using "sit down".
The very important culture in China is table manners, before entering into this box, a study guide showing on the wall, students should guess where the main guest's position and clues are around.
Unlike the Spanish study center which I explored two weeks ago, this place is classify learning process by topics, such as ordering food, going to the airport, watching an art exhibition, etc. I think it's much better than only start with Pinyin without any topics, this could make students feel they are involved in a real situation.
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