Teaching Chinese at Home

[phankao]

Wesim:

I have been flashing Chinese flashcards (wo hui du) since she was 12mths old. I bought Wink to learn Chinese DVDs and also read 3 Chinese books to her (i like those from Scroll - simple and not too wordy) every night. I am also teaching her to write strokes. My aunt bought san zi jin for her. Will try to get her to listen for a few minutes (she is now 25mths old).

Actually Wink-to-learn already teaches strokes of the characters. Don't see a need to teach a 1yo to write strokes other than that.

[porcupine12trade]

i need help, can someone explain to me the difference between 胶版纸 and 铜版纸? I googled but i dont quite understand the difference :oops: is it 1 is matte (thinner) and 1 is glossy (thicker?)


I found this explanation:

(I bought the 鸡蛋哥哥（全四册） - there are only 4 books (hardcover) inside, paper quality is 铜版纸.

The first one has 7 titles. Paper quality is 胶版纸. I'm taking to mean softcover, bound with glue.)

paiseh, still dont know the difference. Am asking coz there is a set of books in dangdang having both diff type of paper, price diff is 30yuan

Thanks!

[JuneJuly]

铜版纸 is more expensive, right?


Honestly, i am proficient in chinese, but still fail to figure out the difference. :oops:

porcupine12trade:

i need help, can someone explain to me the difference between 胶版纸 and 铜版纸? I googled but i dont quite understand the difference :oops: is it 1 is matte (thinner) and 1 is glossy (thicker?)

I found this explanation:

(I bought the 鸡蛋哥哥（全四册） - there are only 4 books (hardcover) inside, paper quality is 铜版纸.

The first one has 7 titles. Paper quality is 胶版纸. I'm taking to mean softcover, bound with glue.)

paiseh, still dont know the difference. Am asking coz there is a set of books in dangdang having both diff type of paper, price diff is 30yuan

Thanks!

[pinkiepirate]

Hello everyone, hope you can help me with my question - for children in Singapore, should we be looking for books with simplified chinese or traditional chinese?

My son is 2 years old.
I guess this is quite a basic question, but honestly, I am quite clueless about Chinese (which actually makes me quite anxious to expose my son to it!). Thanks in advance!

[Brenda10]

pinkiepirate:

Hello everyone, hope you can help me with my question - for children in Singapore, should we be looking for books with simplified chinese or traditional chinese?

My son is 2 years old.
I guess this is quite a basic question, but honestly, I am quite clueless about Chinese (which actually makes me quite anxious to expose my son to it!). Thanks in advance!

Hi. you should look for simplified chinese (简体字) as our primary school text book are using 简体字.

[pinkiepirate]

Thanks Brenda10! I understand that Chinese newspapers are in traditional Chinese (is that correct?) so does that mean that our children will not be able to read newspapers?

[hquek]

pinkiepirate:

Thanks Brenda10! I understand that Chinese newspapers are in traditional Chinese (is that correct?) so does that mean that our children will not be able to read newspapers?

Hi pinkiepirate,

SG is using simplified chinese. I would think only those newspapers directly from HK/Taiwan will be using traditional chinese.

[pinkiepirate]

Thanks hquek! that makes sense.


My son just turned two, and I think it’s time to start my journey of teaching Chinese at home! I am hopeless at Chinese myself so this will be an interesting and challenging quest.

[hquek]

pinkiepirate:

Thanks hquek! that makes sense.


My son just turned two, and I think it's time to start my journey of teaching Chinese at home! I am hopeless at Chinese myself so this will be an interesting and challenging quest.

well, my chinese (written/reading) ain't so good; so I'm trying to improve as I read to my kids. I like to tell them that mummy is learning, so can you.

[jerejoy]

deardear07:

jerejoy:

[quote=\"deardear07\"]
Just realized this...r a sahm? Wow...thatz a lot of books to read a day...

Hi deardear07,

Yes, I am. I read 5-7 books to him in the morning, afternoon and night before he sleeps. But as he is in N1 this yr, I can only read abt 5-10 books to him daily cos he is in the afternoon session.

my my...u r really fantastic! my son ever forced me to read 5-6books to him at a go...i was so tired n thirsty after i din wana talk at all...

for me now, when i get home after work, 1book is just about what i can handle.maybe on good days, 2 is the max. :roll:[/quote]Thanks deardear07. It's not easy to be a working mum either. U are awesome to make effort to read to yr child.