P1 Chinese - General Discussion

[Daddy D]

janet_lee88:

Hi Daddy D,

Hanyu Pinyin is using english letters...that's where the prob lies...young kids will confuse with phonics. They need to master learning hanyu pinyin like 'bo po mo fo, a o e'....something like that, I am learning all over again too.

confusing me too...
Imagine for fei(1) Ji(1).... instead of 飞机... the kid thought it's 飞鸡...

:stupid: :stupid: :stupid: :stupid: :stupid:

[Tinkerbelle]

janet_lee88:

My daughter pronounces hanyu pinyin 'a o e' like the way she reads them in English. Quite difficult to teach her to differentiate it.

I can relate to that.....my DD also got confused with her phonics and Hanyupinyin last year.... Needed lots of practice and reinforcement before she could differentiate the difference between HYPY and phonics.

[Tinkerbelle]

Daddy

janet_lee88:

Hi Daddy D,

Hanyu Pinyin is using english letters...that's where the prob lies...young kids will confuse with phonics. They need to master learning hanyu pinyin like 'bo po mo fo, a o e'....something like that, I am learning all over again too.

confusing me too...
Imagine for fei(1) Ji(1).... instead of 飞机... the kid thought it's 飞鸡...

:stupid: :stupid: :stupid: :stupid: :stupid:

:rotflmao: :rotflmao: Ya, its a learning journey for parents too. Sometimes, I cheat and ask my P6 gal. She's better at Hanyupinyin than mummy.

[Brenda10]

Tinkerbelle:

:rotflmao: :rotflmao: Ya, its a learning journey for parents too. Sometimes, I cheat and ask my P6 gal. She's better at Hanyupinyin than mummy.

Same here. I always disturb dd for hanyupinyin or check through the besta CD 668S :celebrate:

[janet88]

Brenda10:

Tinkerbelle:

:rotflmao: :rotflmao: Ya, its a learning journey for parents too. Sometimes, I cheat and ask my P6 gal. She's better at Hanyupinyin than mummy.

Same here. I always disturb dd for hanyupinyin or check through the besta CD 668S :celebrate:

I get son to coach his sister in 汉语拼音...cannot remember the a o e mo po fo. Use the Besta 668 a lot for reference. At times, I do understand but don't know how to explain to daughter...son can relate better to her.

[Tinkerbelle]

janet_lee88:

I get son to coach his sister in 汉语拼音...cannot remember the a o e mo po fo. Use the Besta 668 a lot for reference. At times, I do understand but don't know how to explain to daughter...son can relate better to her.

Thank goodness for older siblings....I'm lost when it comes to xu, ju, qu and xu, ju, qu with 2 dots on top... :scratchhead:

[janet88]

Tinkerbelle:

janet_lee88:

I get son to coach his sister in 汉语拼音...cannot remember the a o e mo po fo. Use the Besta 668 a lot for reference. At times, I do understand but don't know how to explain to daughter...son can relate better to her.

Thank goodness for older siblings....I'm lost when it comes to xu, ju, qu and xu, ju, qu with 2 dots on top... :scratchhead:

Yes, thank goodness for older siblings because I would have been totally lost teaching her the basics. I think I was one of the earlier batches who had to learn hanyu pinyin back then.

[Callie Tan]

Daddy

Was looking at the Pri1 HCL textbooks... and was quite shock to see all the pages in hanyu pinyin... was at least expecting to see some simple 汉字... no wonder our chinese standards so JIAT LAT nowadays... how to get our kids to relate to 汉字 with only hanyu piniyin?


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I strongly agree that by doing hanyu pinyin now may affect our children in recognizing the chinese characters...

My girl has forgotten many chinese words after the long Dec 2010 holidays and now she will start hanyu pinyin as a P1 student so I am really concerned. However, since we can't beat the syllabus, I have decided to do extra revision at home besides her school and 天下，I am doing all the chinese flash cards all over again to refresh her memory...

[Callie Tan]

Daddy

janet_lee88:

Hi Daddy D,

Hanyu Pinyin is using english letters...that's where the prob lies...young kids will confuse with phonics. They need to master learning hanyu pinyin like 'bo po mo fo, a o e'....something like that, I am learning all over again too.

confusing me too...
Imagine for fei(1) Ji(1).... instead of 飞机... the kid thought it's 飞鸡...

:stupid: :stupid: :stupid: :stupid: :stupid:

yes such incidents will happen!!! So try to read a bit more story books lor so that they at least will guess the correct \"ji\"... hahaha

[janet88]

Daughter brought home CL homework yesterday…to write the a e o i u and the 4 ‘tones’. We have been practicing how to pronounce these letters. Didn’t do anything related to English as it will confuse her.