Comparing Chinese Enrichment (Primary/Preschool)

[jemlth]

beautifulmum:

Hi, my P5 girl will be taking PSLE next year. These yrs, I try not to burden her with too many tuition lessons. However, I find that her chinese is poor recently. Any good tuition centre for recommendation that your kid has attended and result proven. ie. Hans Language, Berries, Tiex hsia, eduplus etc........ :?:

Hi there,

I feel your anxiety the same way I feel for my students. Find opportunities to engage in Chinese with your girl. Learning a language well is heavily dependent on the environment she is in. Is there anything she likes in Chinese? Comics, television show, songs, movies, youtube videos? Take such opportunities to engage her in Chinese. I showed the MCYS filial piety video in Chinese to my class a couple of weeks ago and they found it very interesting. They found it amusing that facebook is 面簿 in Chinese. They recognized both of the characters and discovered the meaning for themselves when they put the 2 characters together.

Don't pressure her with too much work. Focus efforts on word recognition first. Exam techniques can come a little later. There's little use in focusing too much on exam techniques when they have difficulty in even getting through half their 理解问答.

Help her to recognize characters by classifying 边旁部首 and grasping the meaning of Chinese characters with 部首。 Simple example - 言字旁（讠） - 说、话、讨、论、讲 - all these characters are related to speaking/talking. This will help her to remember these words as a 'cluster' and that aids word recognition and understanding.

Hope this helps.

[jansonirene]

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Hi jasonirene,

Thanks for the information, I have not heard of Yuquan…so it is better than Berries for learning of Chinese Characters?

Where is Yu Quan at?[/quote]

Yuquan has quite a number of branches, with some at those RCs at the HDB void decks. I have only attended 1 trial lesson in Berries for my 4-year old in Nursery -more fun element.

As for Yuquan which I enrolled my 6-year K2 girl, a lot of practising on the chinese characters (like writing a character 70 times each lesson!). I cannot even get my girl to write 5 times at home, yet the teacher can get her to write 70 times. Anyway, she remembers the characters eventually and she likes the teacher too.

[ADave]

hello all.


i will soon enrol my soon-to-be 4yo son to Tien Hsia to prepare him for P1 as his future school only have chinese as 2nd language. I am kinda worried because i wont be able to assist him during revision time as I dun have any background in the language itself. Aside from basic conversational mandarin, thats it. I dun even know how the strokes work…(we are malay family btw). Not sure if its wise to get him a tutor at this age.

[tree nymph]

jansonirene:

Yuquan has quite a number of branches, with some at those RCs at the HDB void decks. I have only attended 1 trial lesson in Berries for my 4-year old in Nursery -more fun element.

As for Yuquan which I enrolled my 6-year K2 girl, a lot of practising on the chinese characters (like writing a character 70 times each lesson!). I cannot even get my girl to write 5 times at home, yet the teacher can get her to write 70 times. Anyway, she remembers the characters eventually and she likes the teacher too.

Hi! I have a few questions.

1. how do you know that they make her write 70 times? did they tell you that? won't they have lost count after a while?
2. Did they make the kids write on the paper - as in writing?
3. Your gal remembers the characters eventually - do you mean she can write the charactesr or remember how to read the charactesr?
4. How many characters does she learn per lesson?
5. How many characters does your gal need to write per lesson?

[tree nymph]

smurf:

Ya, at RC centre...the main branch is better?


Me no $$, so can only go RC...hahhajoking lah...

But berries is more expensive...$390 per term...

$58?? :shock: :shock: :shock:

per term or per month? wah, think i better check it out liao! nevermind good or no good... hehehheeee...

But seriously, i think different kids need different kind of pushing and enrichment.

[beautifulmum]

thanks for your advice. I have enquired from a few of these Chinese tuition centre and realized that they are teaching the students based on MOE syllabus. I have concerned if my P5 girl can catch up if she can’t understand the meaning and follow the teacher instruction blindly. End of the day, she will not improve and waste precious time going for tuition. Especially, school children has no time to waste nowsaday. Sad to say that…


However, I’ll try my best to apply your advice in her daily studies. Hope it will help her. Tks

[Busymom]

jeestan:

Hi Monster Mummy,


thanks for the information...so at the end, they also do an oral presentation?

For the younger kids, it is group performance of 儿歌.
Once they are older, they will do both group and individual performance.

I personally think it is a good exposure for the kids.

Recently, my K2 is also learning 相声... maybe they will perform that end of this term?

[jajnj]

Hi,


May I know if there is any feedback on Skylace Language School at Funan? My dd is quite weak in compo & compre & it often drags him down a whole lot.

Pls help me to advise which centre is effective. Areas that we can go Hougang, SengKang, Punggol, Serangoon & near Funan.

thnks!

[ankhlet.06013gmail.06013com]

Can try Hokkien Huay Kuan Arts and Cultural Centre in Toa Payoh. They accept students based on birth year. But only once a week, usually weekends.

[Fuzz]

Hi need some advice on which chinese enrichment is suitable. I’ve heard berries is quite fun and some of the comments i’ve read in this thread seem to say the same thing. I’m keen on a centre which makes it fun for the kids cos I don’t want my boy to dread going for classes. Any other suggestions?


Can anyone also recommend some good Chinese cartoons on DVD? I don’t really like the ones I’ve seen so far. Somehow the english cartoons always seem so much better!