Teaching Chinese at Home
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tamarind:
Thanks! You are my inspiration to start doing something serious with them instead of sitting around and complain. Thanks to you and all the encouraging words and inspiring stories of everyone here.
加油！I am sure it will happen !keltong:
I am waiting for the day
he will pick up a chinese book and read himself, I think I will hug and kiss him to death :lol:
I clap and cheer every time my P1 boy completes reading a Chinese picture book out loud to me
That makes him very proud of himself, and he is motivated to read the next book.
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milo66:
Hi Tamarind, need some advise from you. Saw that you home school your boy in K2... how do u find it, is tat ok?
Our family will be relocating this June and my boy will be missing his K2 in Singapore. System in US seems so relax until I am so worried he is unable to cope with P1 here.
Have read through your blog and am doing some work with him everyday hoping to understand where is his weakness.
For Chinese, he is currently attending enrichment at JG and am doing 四五快读 with him at home. Thankfully so far so good. When I am over there, will conc on 四五快读, read and speak more chinese + self given ting xie be sufficient? Thanks for ur advise
Hi milo66,
I actually did not spend much time teaching my boy everyday since I am a full time working mum. I am very happy with his standards of English, and amazed by the amount of general knowledge that he has learned by reading on his own. His Chinese is not as good as his older sister, but already much better than the average kids his age.
Teaching English and Chinese at home is definitely possible even for working parents if you can get good resources.
If you can finish 四五快读 before he enters P1, and make sure that he remembers every word in the 6 books by constant revision, then he will definitely be more than well prepared for P1 Also, try to make him read at least 500 to 1000 words out loud from a good Chinese picture book every day, this is excellent for practicing oral skills. Make sure you get as many good Chinese story books as possible, dangdang.com ships worldwide.
After he has completed 四五快读, you should start to teach him hanyu pinyin. I don't have any resources for hanyu pinyin, will post here if I find any.
For writing, get these books to learn about the different names of 部首 and also practice writing :![](\"https://www.popular.com.sg/images/product/book/70341.jpg\")
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![](\"https://www.popular.com.sg/images/product/book/70344.jpg\")
Don't make him write the same words many times a day. Instead, teach him to write one or two simple sentences about what he has done every day. -
tamarind:
Thanks Tamarind for your recomendation. I hope I can succeed in teaching him Chinese myself. He will still attend school in US but seeing the no of holidays there, i doubt will be sufficientmilo66:
Hi Tamarind, need some advise from you. Saw that you home school your boy in K2... how do u find it, is tat ok?
Our family will be relocating this June and my boy will be missing his K2 in Singapore. System in US seems so relax until I am so worried he is unable to cope with P1 here.
Have read through your blog and am doing some work with him everyday hoping to understand where is his weakness.
For Chinese, he is currently attending enrichment at JG and am doing 四五快读 with him at home. Thankfully so far so good. When I am over there, will conc on 四五快读, read and speak more chinese + self given ting xie be sufficient? Thanks for ur advise
Hi milo66,
I actually did not spend much time teaching my boy everyday since I am a full time working mum. I am very happy with his standards of English, and amazed by the amount of general knowledge that he has learned by reading on his own. His Chinese is not as good as his older sister, but already much better than the average kids his age.
Teaching English and Chinese at home is definitely possible even for working parents if you can get good resources.
If you can finish 四五快读 before he enters P1, and make sure that he remembers every word in the 6 books by constant revision, then he will definitely be more than well prepared for P1 Also, try to make him read at least 500 to 1000 words out loud from a good Chinese picture book every day, this is excellent for practicing oral skills. Make sure you get as many good Chinese story books as possible, dangdang.com ships worldwide.
After he has completed 四五快读, you should start to teach him hanyu pinyin. I don't have any resources for hanyu pinyin, will post here if I find any.
For writing, get these books to learn about the different names of 部首 and also practice writing :
Don't make him write the same words many times a day. Instead, teach him to write one or two simple sentences about what he has done every day.
Getting him to read aloud to me everyday as suggested in ur blog. He is in P&J Book 5a now and actually the school has completed the 3 letter phonics with him. Jus realise that he has no initiative in trying to sound the words himself! Have to depend on me to break up for me unless i prompt him to. So now wat i did was buy book of lower standard for him and hopefully will encourage him to read instead of ME reading to him. Am i doing the right thing?
Jus to check with you. When u make ur kids read aloud to you, wat happen if they meet some new words that they dunno? Mine refuse to try sounding by phonics so most of the time i will have to tell him else cannot go on liao. any suggestion?
Will continue to jiayou cos i believe no matter how good the school and system is, without the parents emphasizing at home, its also useless. Thanks! -
tamarind:
milo66milo66:
Hi Tamarind, need some advise from you. Saw that you home school your boy in K2... how do u find it, is tat ok?
Our family will be relocating this June and my boy will be missing his K2 in Singapore. System in US seems so relax until I am so worried he is unable to cope with P1 here.
Have read through your blog and am doing some work with him everyday hoping to understand where is his weakness.
For Chinese, he is currently attending enrichment at JG and am doing 四五快读 with him at home. Thankfully so far so good. When I am over there, will conc on 四五快读, read and speak more chinese + self given ting xie be sufficient? Thanks for ur advise
Hi milo66,
I actually did not spend much time teaching my boy everyday since I am a full time working mum. I am very happy with his standards of English, and amazed by the amount of general knowledge that he has learned by reading on his own. His Chinese is not as good as his older sister, but already much better than the average kids his age.
Teaching English and Chinese at home is definitely possible even for working parents if you can get good resources.
If you can finish 四五快读 before he enters P1, and make sure that he remembers every word in the 6 books by constant revision, then he will definitely be more than well prepared for P1 Also, try to make him read at least 500 to 1000 words out loud from a good Chinese picture book every day, this is excellent for practicing oral skills. Make sure you get as many good Chinese story books as possible, dangdang.com ships worldwide.
After he has completed 四五快读, you should start to teach him hanyu pinyin. I don't have any resources for hanyu pinyin, will post here if I find any.
For writing, get these books to learn about the different names of 部首 and also practice writing :
Don't make him write the same words many times a day. Instead, teach him to write one or two simple sentences about what he has done every day.
I also have these 2 books and others in the series. They are passed down from my kids' cousin, she doesnt want to use them. But they came abit late for my K2 , the stroke books shld be used before K2 I think, but i do think these are great books, big fonts and simple to use.
tamarind,
I really hope i can achieve what you have done for your children, hmm even if 80% i'll b jumping for joy :). My #1 is very teachable, #2 ok, depends on her mood, #3 hmmmmm :roll: ...so if i can succeed like you and have all of them proficient in Eng/chinese, I'll be in cloud 9 :lol: . I used to admire TV presenter like Diana Ser, she can converse so well in both Eng/Chinese! -
porcupine12trade:
Hi porcupine12trade,
tamarind,
I really hope i can achieve what you have done for your children, hmm even if 80% i'll b jumping for joy :). My #1 is very teachable, #2 ok, depends on her mood, #3 hmmmmm :roll: ...so if i can succeed like you and have all of them proficient in Eng/chinese, I'll be in cloud 9 :lol: . I used to admire TV presenter like Diana Ser, she can converse so well in both Eng/Chinese!
It is definitely possible to achieve this. Depending on the ability of each child, one child may take longer to achieve it compared to another child. I have 2 kids who have very different learning abilities, my younger boy requires a lot more patience compared to my older girl. -
Hi milo66,
I answered you question in the other thread about phonics and reading in English :
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?p=346695#346695 -
Tamarind,
I’m encouraged by the innovative methods that you use to teach your kids. I bought the si wu kuai du since last year but never had the motivation to use it until I chanced upon this thread. DD1 dislikes chinese so I tried to motivate her with chinese comics & cartoons. So far it has been a uphill task. Bought the candy candy dvds from the shop recently, then realise it is in Jap. Asked her to read the chinese subtitles but she "diligently" changed it to english subtitles. So i resorted to ordering chinese cartoon dvds like hua xian zi and xi yang yang from dangdang.
For DD2, i have started her early with si wu kuai du and basic 500 words. Hopefully I can achieve better results. I will continue to come here for motivation, hahaha… -
keekee:
Hi keekee,Tamarind,
I'm encouraged by the innovative methods that you use to teach your kids. I bought the si wu kuai du since last year but never had the motivation to use it until I chanced upon this thread. DD1 dislikes chinese so I tried to motivate her with chinese comics & cartoons. So far it has been a uphill task. Bought the candy candy dvds from the shop recently, then realise it is in Jap. Asked her to read the chinese subtitles but she \"diligently\" changed it to english subtitles. So i resorted to ordering chinese cartoon dvds like hua xian zi and xi yang yang from dangdang.
For DD2, i have started her early with si wu kuai du and basic 500 words. Hopefully I can achieve better results. I will continue to come here for motivation, hahaha...
I also bought the candy candy version, quite disappointed about the quality. Fortunately I still have the original comics books in Chinese.
How old are you DDs ?
The earlier we start, the easier it is to develop a love for the language. If a child is already very good in English, then it is not going to be easy to make her love Chinese. But I think if parents try hard enough to find Chinese books that kids really love, that will be a turning point. -
Hi Tamarind,
With regards to 四五快读, can it be re-used? Was thinking after my #1 go through it, can #2 use it? Or are there worksheets etc so that it's better to get a new one?
Many thanks!
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lil_jade:
hi lil_jade,Hi Tamarind,
With regards to 四五快读, can it be re-used? Was thinking after my #1 go through it, can #2 use it? Or are there worksheets etc so that it's better to get a new one?
Many thanks!
Taking the liberty to answer. This series of books are read only (no activity to colour/write), there are flash cards behind that you can cut out so kids can 'play' with those. definitely can reuse.
I cut out those cards and put them in different ziploc bags - not confident I can put them back according to the book level.
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