Fun Chinese Learning with Voki

We often used Voki to help our learning in Chinese class. We either type in Chinese characters or record our own voice. A cartoon character will speak Chinese for us. It is a great way to practise our Pinyin, Chinese typing as well as listening skills. We can easily share our Voki via email or send them to our teachers to view and comment on. This is also a fun way to write an essay without it feeling like you are! Sometimes, if there is a test coming up, all the Voki characters are great ways to revise what we had learnt, such as vocabulary and language structures.

Here is how it works and some great examples, you can try with many different languages too!

Y7 Isobel Dolan & Y7 Zachary McCarroll

Y8 Fennie Easton & Y8 Rebecca Kearns

1. Go to http://www.voki.com/create.php
2. Then go to the 'Customize Your character' tab to change what your character looks like.
3.When you are done customizing your character click on the done button.
4. Then, you can either type your message or record it, by going to the 'Give it a voice' tab.
5. For example, lets say you pick text, then you click on the text button, type in your message (in chinese) and give your character a voice, click done when you are finished.
6. Then, to here your message, you can click the play button.
7. You can also go to the backround button and choose your backround, and choose the color of your player, click done for both when you are finished.
8. When you are completely finished with your voki, click publish, call it something, then when it finishes saving, a page should come up with giving you options, you want to click email, then you can email it to someone.

by Y8 Fennie Easton