Chinese Through Song

I created the groundbreaking course, Chinese through Song, at Binghamton University in the early 1990s. This is a specially designed, interdisciplinary course, emphasizing both language acquisition and music appreciation and performance. Students learn new words and sentence patterns as in regular language classes, while the improvement of pronunciation, diction, voice projection, and language expression are achieved through singing practice. Students go through a step-by-step learning progression, from “singing along” to “singing alone.” This course has been very successful for over two decades.