Teaching Chinese at Home

[24hr-mum]

hi tamarind


re dangdang.com, how much is the shipping? is it order online and pay by visa and how long is the shipping?

are the bks very china in design - lots of pics, tiny fonts, very wordy type？ got pinyin?

how much do u spend on bks usu? how u can keep storage?

my girl likes to read but i think those words she dont understand she just skip

[tamarind]

Brenda,

Thanks for sharing the Xiao Bai Long series

porcupine12trade,
You are welcome
I think your girls will like Lulu and Lala too.

Herbie:

Hi Tanarind,

I have one qn. If we just get the child to read and when they come across words which they do not know and we explain to them the meaning. But if they do use than in their speech or compo, how are they going to improve their chinese??

I am at a dilemma on how to teach my son one boy chinese..
Can advise?

Tx

Hi Herbie,
When reading books, the child will not only learn new words and vocabulary, he will also learn to write good sentences. Teachers will give high marks to students who can use many words that are not taught in class before, provided they use it correctly in good sentences.

However, a child must read extensively in order to be very good in Chinese. That means reading at least one novel of more than 70000 words a week. Secondary school kids should read even more than this. If a child can read this number of Chinese books, then he will find Chinese very easy.

Herbie:

hi tamarind, i just started to get my ds to read a passage of abt 300 wprds tomite. And he learnt some new words along the way.. feel so good.. We will try to do read every nite to brush up his mother tongue...

You are doing great ! Jia you !

[tamarind]

24hr-mum:

hi tamarind


re dangdang.com, how much is the shipping? is it order online and pay by visa and how long is the shipping?

are the bks very china in design - lots of pics, tiny fonts, very wordy type？ got pinyin?

how much do u spend on bks usu? how u can keep storage?

my girl likes to read but i think those words she dont understand she just skip

Will reply you later. Got to go home now.

[ksme]

Brenda10:

Hi ksme

Sorry of my poor HYPY and it should be xiao bai long instead. This is the comics come with few short stories per book. The main characters are stories of 阿伦 and 小白龙. The contents are printed without HYPY and they do include the HYPY for certain difficult word at the bottom of the respective page.

No worries Brenda. Thanks for sharing. I'll try to check out the books. Ds has been very busy with school work and CCA activities. No time to read the 笑猫日记 yet. Hope he will find some time to read soon.

[Brenda10]

ksme:

No worries Brenda. Thanks for sharing. I'll try to check out the books. Ds has been very busy with school work and CCA activities. No time to read the 笑猫日记 yet. Hope he will find some time to read soon.

Is ok. May be the coming March or June holiday will be the best timing. Same here. Now dd also has little time for reading since the supplementary class has started.

[porcupine12trade]

Hi


Anyone has reco for 童摇/诗歌 book to reco? Thanks.

[Brenda10]

porcupine12trade:

Talking Abt Chinese history, over cny, we watched 赤壁(did I get it right?), my p2 thinks it's v interesting. She made a comment y zhuge liang don't fight only 'talk', and gave herself the ans by saying he uses his brain to strategise while others use muscles to fight ha. So I asked if she wan use brain or muscles? After watching, I feel Chinese history can be interesting too! Kudos to your kids who read Abt Chinese history, so chim! If my kids do read Abt them, I'll b soooo happy

In fact this is a good sign that your dd showing her interest toward some famous character in Chinese History. My girl had been exposed to a series of comics of 3 Kingdom when she was P3, she gain further understanding after watching 赤壁 part 1 and part 2. I find all these CL show like 东方不败，英雄，花木兰，十月围城，梁祝，画皮 etc really help to cultivate the interest toward Chinese History. . I’m happy that dd can still remember like “既生瑜，何生亮”, a statement 道出了周瑜的无奈.

[porcupine12trade]

Brenda10:

porcupine12trade:

Talking Abt Chinese history, over cny, we watched 赤壁(did I get it right?), my p2 thinks it's v interesting. She made a comment y zhuge liang don't fight only 'talk', and gave herself the ans by saying he uses his brain to strategise while others use muscles to fight ha. So I asked if she wan use brain or muscles? After watching, I feel Chinese history can be interesting too! Kudos to your kids who read Abt Chinese history, so chim! If my kids do read Abt them, I'll b soooo happy

In fact this is a good sign that your dd showing her interest toward some famous character in Chinese History. My girl had been exposed to a series of comics of 3 Kingdom when she was P3, she gain further understanding after watching 赤壁 part 1 and part 2. I find all these CL show like 东方不败，英雄，花木兰，十月围城，梁祝，画皮 etc really help to cultivate the interest toward Chinese History. . I’m happy that dd can still remember like “既生瑜，何生亮”, a statement 道出了周瑜的无奈.

Your gal must be very good in her CL! Honestly i think nowadays not many children can understand or are interested in chinese history or the 3 kingdom stories.

[JoeeYee]

Hi all, sorry to change the subject here suddenly but I would like to find out if anyone knows how to arrange for school immersion in China? My girl is going for training in Kunming during June holiday and I would like to arrange immersion for her 2 brothers during the same period.


I saw tamarind in an earlier post mentioned something similar, but not sure if any specific procedure was given....

Thanks in advance.

[24hr-mum]

is the sat night channel 8, 1030pm show 郑和下西洋 good show for kids to watch to dev int in ch history?