Language is the conveyor of a culture, and is the main mechanism of communication. Different cultural words in different languages mean words that belong to a specific cultural scope. Cultural words not only carry specific cultural information, but are imbedded with deeper national cultural meanings. For the Chinese language learners, one of the important and difficult part is cultural words. This study based on the cultural factors in the Chinese language teaching.native speakers of the Confucius institute at the university of Nairobi, Kenya, are used as the research object to analyze the general characteristics and main problem for the use of the cultural words. Based on these findings, this study provides some suggestions for teaching cultural words and can serve as a vocabulary reference for TCSL... |