The pupils spent just five to ten minutes a day working with the podcasts and over the course of the project they learned between 30 and 40 words and phrases of basic Mandarin including greetings, saying their name, asking “how are you?” and giving answers to this question, counting up to 10, talking about the fact that they’re learning Chinese and saying that they don’t understand.

At the end of the four week learning period, the classes were challenged to create their own stop motion animation during a one-day Radio Lingua Schools animation workshop, and the results of these workshops are linked to below. The pupils in each school learned the same phrases so that they would ultimately understand the animations created by the other classes.

We’d like to congratulate all of the children who participated in this project: you should all be very proud of your animation work, especially as you were working in a language which you only started learning four weeks ago!

Castlepark Primary School

• Group 1
• Group 2
• Group 3
• Group 4

Glebe Primary School

• Group 1
• Group 2
• Group 3
• Group 4
• Group 5

John Galt Primary School

• Group 1
• Group 2
• Group 3
• Group 4

Loudoun Montgomery Primary School

• Group 1
• Group 2
• Group 3
• Group 4

Over the past five weeks the pupils of John Galt Primary in North Ayrshire have been learning Mandarin Chinese through the One Minute Mandarin series from Radio Lingua. To mark the end of the project, and to demonstrate what they have learned, they produced a short animation in a one day workshop with Radio Lingua Schools.

Over the past five weeks the pupils of John Galt Primary in North Ayrshire have been learning Mandarin Chinese through the One Minute Mandarin series from Radio Lingua. To mark the end of the project, and to demonstrate what they have learned, they produced a short animation in a one day workshop with Radio Lingua Schools.

Over the past five weeks the pupils of John Galt Primary in North Ayrshire have been learning Mandarin Chinese through the One Minute Mandarin series from Radio Lingua. To mark the end of the project, and to demonstrate what they have learned, they produced a short animation in a one day workshop with Radio Lingua Schools.

Over the past five weeks the pupils of John Galt Primary in North Ayrshire have been learning Mandarin Chinese through the One Minute Mandarin series from Radio Lingua. To mark the end of the project, and to demonstrate what they have learned, they produced a short animation in a one day workshop with Radio Lingua Schools.