Teaching Chinese at Home

[Blobbi]

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notfreemom:

Hi Charmaine,


Can I know where to learn lunYi? I have been searching for lunyi class for my kids too.

Thanks.

Some CC have. From my own experience, you have to start young, because once the kids pass certain age, they are not interested anymore.

Hi, is this a class or a book? And sorry, what's Lunyi again?

[Poohbear]

phankao:

Popular can find some. But must search carefully.

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fyi. i hv also seen this series in the libraries.

[Charmaine_chong]

Hi blobbi,


Lun yu 论语 is one of the chinese classic and a must read book in a person life. There are lots more.

I read from an article, a famous educationist in china commented that there are 5 important books a child must read in their life. I will copy the article here asap.

It is not easy to understand chinese classic but parent who is interested to teach a child to recite chinese classics need not to explain its meaning. Just turn on the cd and recite together as many times as possible daily. If recite 100 times, the child will never forget in his life.

They will eventually understand the meaning as they grow older. Just like we never explain to a child what is mother or father. They just know it along the way.

It will be good to learn in a group. My kids age 4 yo and 17mths old attend the weekly one hour class.

I witness myself how it benefits one through chinese classic. My niece and nephew gotten very good results in their Sec 5 exams. They aren’t early readers but their moms expose them to chinese classic when they were young.

If the child consistently pick up chinese classics eg: 300 Tang’s poems, Lun Yu, San Zhi Jin (these are just some of them) within 3 years times. Their chinese level will be as good as degree standard.

The focus is not on recognition of words, just read out with the child consistently everyday. The child need to point on the words and read out together to help them focus and eventually they will pick up all the words and recite very well.

0-3 years old is a child’s golden years. Please take this opportunity to expose the child the best you can provide. Expose them to well known paintings (just color print from website and paste it on the wall at their eye level), good music and classic. For English classic like Shakespeare.

We have just begun our journey in 儿童读经. I will surely update the thread about their progress and hope it can benefit the rest.

[Blobbi]

Tks so much, Charmaine. I’ll look into it and try to turn it into bed time reading for us. Looking forward to your findings!

[Blobbi]

Tks so much, Charmaine. I’ll look into it and try to turn it into bed time reading for us. Looking forward to your findings!

[RAchelmum]

Hi Charmaine


Pls share more details & update on 儿童读经, I am interested to learn
how it is condensed for children.

As someone who took Chinese literature as a subject in school, personally find it diff to stomach 论语 (The Confucius' sayings),
i had not figured out how to introduce it to my girl in a fun way yet.
I rem how my teacher taught us to sing 诗经，唐诗，宋词， 文言文 etc. to memorise with less pain.

We started with 唐诗 1st with an interesting video series which is able to
explain the meanings of the poems & the characters. She is not just learning to recite but also understand the meaning & recognise
some characters at 21 mth.
We recite/ sing together often as she loves it so much.
I am also teaching her Chinese words by sight-reading.

http://v.ku6.com/show/uz4UEu10HvpuCu5x.html

Think it is only available in China but can do a few online search on Youku.com or other video-sharing websites.
Ignore or give the unbearable English explanation a miss! :stupid:

Besides using the rote method, hope other parents can share interesting ways to teach Chinese classic.
The modern teaching method in China seems to be more creative than what we are practising here.
I guess they had to do so before the next generation cant write or don even bother to learn about our Chinese roots & culture.
It really takes a lot of immersion to appreciate the beauty of Chinese language.

Will post more on animated stories/ videos of 论语，唐诗，宋词，弟子规，三字经，千字文 etc. if i manage to find more!

:celebrate:

[RAchelmum]

Chanced by this series.

Had anyone read before?

http://www.edventurebooks.com/TipTop/index.html

[sleepy]

My dd2 can memorise & recite 三字经, 论语 and 唐诗 easily. The only problem is retention. Unless I revise with her actively, she will forget those she learnt after a few months.


I gave up asking her to re-learn since 论语 and 唐诗 aren’t something we use frequently. She can still read those 诗, just can’t recite from memory after a few months break.

Nowsaday I concentrate on writing skills instead since she can read sufficiently well.

[Charmaine_chong]

5 Importance Books in a Child's Life


和谐社会从和谐家庭开始，从培养和谐的孩子，从每一个孩子一生一定要读的五本书开始。 如果中国的孩子要有创新意识，诵读是最好的教育方法之一，现在的教育过分强调答案，我们知道有答案就有标准，有标准就有模式，有模式就有教条，有教条的话思维就受到约束，不会创新。

每一个孩子就应该象天上的恒星一样，家长应该让孩子找到自己的运动轨迹，而不是盲目的被吸引.

每一个孩子一生一定要读的五本书”是属于课题研究中的素质教育部分，一个孩子是不是教育成功我们不是看他分数或者考上大学，而是看孩子是不是和谐，和谐是孩子最成功的教育，一个和谐的孩子表现在与家庭、社会、自然、金钱以及人生哲学思想的和谐。 如果这五大方面和谐了，这个孩子的人生应该是幸福的，事实上我们的整个社会也和谐了。

人和家庭最好的书是《孝经》，因为家庭的和谐最重要是孝顺父母，西方教育孩子童年象天堂一样，中年在忙碌中进行，而到了晚年则进了养老院。西方人强调的是“爱”，而东方人在爱的基础上更有孝这个字。

人和社会最好的书是《论语》，相信和韩国、日本的朋友打过交道的都知道，他们大多数都非常注重礼节，因为他们从小读就诵读《论语》。 论语》是孔子与其弟子的语录结集，儒家重要经典之一。 结集工作是由孔子门人及再传弟子完成的。

现在我们人类太要强了，但最后伤害的只是我们自己，因此我们要教育孩子学会和自然的和谐，那么这本最好的书就是我们中国老子留下来的《道德经》。 老子的《道德经》，其精炼的九九八十一章，仅以简洁优美的五千文字，洋洋洒洒深邃博大地，构造出了一个朴素、自然、豁达、飘逸的宇宙观、人生观、方法论的宏大框架。

现在人类的城市化肯定会影响地球磁场运动的平衡，读《道德经》让我们了解自然之道，可以让我们人类更好的和自然和谐存在。

其实和商业的和谐也是很重要的，因此也应该给孩子读商业方面的书籍。《孙子兵法》是中国古代的兵书，作者为春秋末年的齐国人孙武。 全书为十三篇，是孙武初次见面赠送给吴王的见面礼，事见司马迁《史记》：“孙子武者，齐人也，以兵法见吴王阖闾。

商场如战场，世界首富比尔盖茨，亚洲首富孙正毅都在看《孙子兵法》，事实上，商业如果处理和谐并不会如你说的出现这样的事情。

最好的哲学书籍不是黑格尔的，也不是马克思的，而是来自七千年前人类智慧结晶《易经》。 舒云涛早期教育研究的“生命教育科学教育”就是来自《易经》为哲学基础，知识经济就是变化快，因此学校教育一直在“变易”，而我研究的新经济家庭教育体系则是强调家长抓住“不易”的教育，同时考虑到家长工作比较忙，我们还尽量能帮家长找到一种“简易”的教育方法在家庭中教育孩子，这就应用了《易经》中“不易、变易、简易”的概念。

古人说：不读易者不能为将相，无论在预测、风水、中医、军事、科学、宇宙等领域都离不开《易经》这一本书，因此我真的是拜托家长一定要让孩子去读这一本书，别说这么多涉及，就当哲学书来读就好。

Source from http://www.zhse.com/

[Charmaine_chong]

Hi RAchelmum,


I share the same view as most of the parents here. It is not easy to undertand and to remember what we have recite. They may know it now, soon they will forget.

This is what i understand during parenting orientation about recite classics.

1. No explanation needed
2. Revise consistently 7-10 times daily.
3. Recite 100 times and a child will never forget.
4. Expose children to good music and well known painting.
5. Pop music, nursery rhymes is not good music.
6. The child will have amazing memory by exposing them to classics young enough.
7. Will never be a spoilt child as they need to learn 孝经

I find it a lot easier for a child to pick up in class. And never forget repetitive pratising daily is needed to help them retent what has learnt.

With regards to Tip Top (New Edition) Chinese Readers, I personally find it unnecessary to spent on expensive readers just to get a child to recognise words.

Library has many options you can browse through. I often borrowed Wo hui Du for my younger one. For those series that are not available, i just borrow other readers or next series to read to her. My purpose is not for her to read immediately but to encourage her love for reading. If i consitently do it, i am sure she will pick up when she is 3 or 4 years old. She is 17months old now.

I have few hundred of books and couldn’t finish even 1/3 of them. We go to library weekly. Now i extend to once a month as i would like read what we have at home first.

Hi Sleepy,

Try to recall as often as possible what they have learnt.

Revision is essential.