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[grande]

Hi everyone ! I am a newbie here.


I have a girl who is in P3 and a boy who is in K2.

I am very happy that MBS place a lot of emphasis on CL, although it does stress me out because my girl doesn’t like to read Chinese story books. So, you can imagine the marks for her Chinese written expressions.

She brought back 2 brochures about the Electronic Dictionaries yesterday. I am wondering which one is better, Besta or Creative ?

Which one should I get har ??

[MMM]

My son was in Miss Lim's class last year and after 1 experience of being punished as he forgot to bring his color pencils, he has learnt his lessons :lol: Seeing his friends get punished for certain behaviours also made him \"aspire\" to behave well :lol: Personally, I think it's good as it instills discipline though some parents might feel that it's old thinking/ teaching and how can they torture my kids :shock:


He also came back and tell us that his CL teacher is very very fierce. I was very happy and congratulated him. As that means, he will stay awake in class. So mean huh.

[vlim]

MMM:

My son was in Miss Lim's class last year and after 1 experience of being punished as he forgot to bring his color pencils, he has learnt his lessons :lol: Seeing his friends get punished for certain behaviours also made him \"aspire\" to behave well :lol: Personally, I think it's good as it instills discipline though some parents might feel that it's old thinking/ teaching and how can they torture my kids :shock:


He also came back and tell us that his CL teacher is very very fierce. I was very happy and congratulated him. As that means, he will stay awake in class. So mean huh.

haaaaaa..well i can't say that to my little girl..she is still a bit 'baby' and timid..she look stress since school reopen..so got to see how can I help her emmmm...btw she has quite a few enrichment class too so kind of busy for her.. every wed and sat ballet lesson, thurs night English enrichment, friday night Chinese, Monday morning piano... heeeee sound a lot right but no choice la..they all quite necessary la... :?

[MMM]

grande:

Hi everyone ! I am a newbie here.


I have a girl who is in P3 and a boy who is in K2.

I am very happy that MBS place a lot of emphasis on CL, although it does stress me out because my girl doesn't like to read Chinese story books. So, you can imagine the marks for her Chinese written expressions.

She brought back 2 brochures about the Electronic Dictionaries yesterday. I am wondering which one is better, Besta or Creative ?

Which one should I get har ??

:welcome: It's good to know that we've another P3 parent here. Currently Jsmum and myself have kids in P3. Jsmum is more experienced as she has another child in P4.

Which class is your child in? My girl is in 3C, a boy in P2 and youngest is K1 this year.

At jsmum's recommendation last year, i actually bought besta. So far, both the P2 and P3 find it easy to use. I can't remember what is the price they are selling at in Popular. Wondering if it will be cheaper to buy besta from popular with discount card or $35 quoted is actually a good price. :?

Chinese expression is a challenge for us too. I am trying to get her to read those compo books \"leisurely\" and also try to memorise key phases. But there is so much things to be done so we've not been very discipline in doing that.

[vlim]

grande:

Hi everyone ! I am a newbie here.


I have a girl who is in P3 and a boy who is in K2.

I am very happy that MBS place a lot of emphasis on CL, although it does stress me out because my girl doesn't like to read Chinese story books. So, you can imagine the marks for her Chinese written expressions.

She brought back 2 brochures about the Electronic Dictionaries yesterday. I am wondering which one is better, Besta or Creative ?

Which one should I get har ??

I bought both for my son two years ago. We prefer Creative has it has a feature which can find cheng yu in a faster way. u only need to key the first letter of each word and the cheng yu will appear. For example bu yi er fai..u only need to key b y e f..this is very useful if u are not too sure of the full han yu ping ying. But for Besta, it has feature showing bi hua which creative don't ( hope I didn't give the wrong info). You can check it out further as it might change now...

[MMM]

vlim:

btw she has quite a few enrichment class too so kind of busy for her.. every wed and sat ballet lesson, thurs night English enrichment, friday night Chinese, Monday morning piano... heeeee sound a lot right but no choice la..they all quite necessary la... :?

Tell me about it....... :lol: We are also on the same boat. Chinese tuition on tuesday, BC and Enopi on saturday followed by chinese S&D and piano on sunday..... I already missed the school holidays the moment the term started. :lol:

[MMM]

vlim:

We prefer Creative has it has a feature which can find cheng yu in a faster way.

That is interesting. Will look at the brochure again. Thanks.

[jsmum]

wow…so many posts today


Hi vlim,

The Creative sounds good with HYPY. But does the dictionary give the explanation of the cheng yu? It will be good for my girl who is in P4 as she is able to use some simple cheng yu. Sometimes I am afraid she might use the cheng yu wrongly. If there is explanation that will be good.

Hi Grande,

It is cheaper to buy from school at $35 because Popular is selling at $39.90.

[grande]

MMM:

:welcome: It's good to know that we've another P3 parent here. Currently Jsmum and myself have kids in P3. Jsmum is more experienced as she has another child in P4.


Which class is your child in? My girl is in 3C, a boy in P2 and youngest is K1 this year.

At jsmum's recommendation last year, i actually bought besta. So far, both the P2 and P3 find it easy to use. I can't remember what is the price they are selling at in Popular. Wondering if it will be cheaper to buy besta from popular with discount card or $35 quoted is actually a good price. :?

Chinese expression is a challenge for us too. I am trying to get her to read those compo books \"leisurely\" and also try to memorise key phases. But there is so much things to be done so we've not been very discipline in doing that.

Tks ! My girl is in 3E and Chinese class is CL5. Yes yes, I'm also asking her to read the compo books but she refused...sigh....she only wants to read English books.

Tks for the recommendation on Besta. I saw that they have the Bi Shun function which attracts me the most. But vlim mentioned about Creative's function on finding Cheng Yu....hmmm...seems like I have to get both liao cos 各有千秋

[vlim]

jsmum:

wow...so many posts today


Hi vlim,

The Creative sounds good with HYPY. But does the dictionary give the explanation of the cheng yu? It will be good for my girl who is in P4 as she is able to use some simple cheng yu. Sometimes I am afraid she might use the cheng yu wrongly. If there is explanation that will be good.

Hi Grande,

It is cheaper to buy from school at $35 because Popular is selling at $39.90.

yap... it does give explanation as well..