Chat: My son has been in Zebra AI English class for more than a year. Is it effective?

Original 2023-02-13 14:52·Same Yang My son started to come into contact with the Zebra English class in the kindergarten. He is now in the middle class and has been studying for more than a year.

Let me talk about the English status of our family first. My father and I both graduated from the CET-4 of college English. We have basically paid back what we should pay for after so many years of work. Usually I can only watch English cartoons with my children, which is not very helpful to my son's English enlightenment.

When I first started to get involved in online English, I did a lot of homework. In the end, I chose Zebra's home, mainly focusing on two aspects: simple, interesting storyline, not many words learned every week, but it is also a large vocabulary of accumulated words. After class, there are exercise book assistance and teacher’s daily summary.

Zebra AI courses are mainly divided into five stages, S1, S2, S3, S4, S5.

S1 is mainly an introductory enlightenment. By listening to children's songs, watching animations, and reading picture books, children can get in touch with and understand the language of English mainly by "listening". At this stage, children will briefly understand 26 English letters, learn to sing children's songs, and accumulate topical vocabulary related to life. Generally, when some basic children learn online, this stage can be skipped. My child directly skips S1 to learn S2 without any obstacles.

S2 has entered the basic stage, training children's communication and reading skills for primary English, which is just primary. At this stage, children will recognize 26 English letters and will also accumulate a large number of words. I still learn 3 words every day from Monday to Wednesday, and I will not learn new words on Thursday, and I will review all words. Friday is another form of review.

My child’s effect is not very obvious when he is beginners for a long time. The only progress is to know the expression of many words, but only by reading pictures and talking about words. Maybe he listened and watched a lot, but later he was able to express some of his thoughts in English, which was really a surprise. It seems that quantitative accumulation ultimately causes qualitative changes. As long as you persist, you will always see gains.

S3 mainly learns natural spelling, and during the learning process, it will strengthen the practice of common English in life. At this stage, children will be trained to write. I did not let my children learn any English letters offline, but through S3 for a period of time, I found that my children can write 26 English letters by themselves, and the sentences they can express are richer.

The advantage of learning natural spelling is that children can remember words based on the pronunciation of letters. Although each letter has a variety of pronunciations and the pronunciation of the letter combination itself is also very complicated, we can initially find some simple words to teach children to spell according to the pronunciation rules. As the learning deepensChildren will slowly master the rules. This is a long learning process, remember not to rush it.

S4, S5 I haven't learned it yet, but I learned from my homework before that S4 should continue to learn about natural spelling. S5 will involve some simple syntax issues. Of course, there will be different themes in S4 and S5 courses to enrich children's vocabulary and tend to express themselves independently.

I have studied for so long and talked about my shortcomings.

Zebra AI class is a recording class, not a live class. I don’t need to mention the shortcomings of recording. Haha~

The content I learned is very little and I learned very slowly. I updated it every day and should not learn ahead of time. During holidays, updates will be suspended and some Chinese programs related to festival themes will be updated. I don't understand why it's not in English. Children with strong abilities may feel bored.

The weekly word volume is fixed and will not increase due to the improvement of children's learning ability. I think some adjustments should be made, such as if I knew 9 words per week in S1, I could know 12 words per week in S2, and so on. After all, as children grow, their memory ability will also increase.

The after-class system comments are based on the analysis of the child's learning situation. At the beginning, there were indeed special teachers who commented and interacted. The systematic review summary at the later stage is very mechanical and empty. The review time is basically the same for more than 30 seconds. It’s not necessary to deal with it in order to cope with it.

Zebra class is divided into various classes in a systematic manner, and teachers will analyze and summarize the daily study. However, there are also unreliable teachers who do not do anything.

The disadvantages are found at this moment.

I hope it will help everyone. By the way, the most important point is that you must be patient with the children. You can do not know the words and the grammar. However, our children must study in a relaxed and happy atmosphere, so that they can increase their interest in learning. Remember: you must persevere, there will always be rewards.