P1 Chinese - General Discussion

[Callie Tan]

allseasons:

Yeah, term 1 is still not so difficult. But term 2 onwards is more to learn...


I wonder in this forum we can share our children 'chinese creative writing' (作文). I have been asking my DS1 (in P1) to do 1 作文 every week, a simple one with a few sentences only, and he can check dictionary when he doesn't know how to write a particular character. I just want him to practice so when he goes to P3 he will be familiar to do that.

But the thing is although I can speak chinese, sometimes the way I speak is 乱七八糟.. is not a proper way. I just wonder whether it is a good idea if we ask our children do simple 作文, then we scan and upload here.. we read it together and give some comments on how to improve or praise on the phrases they used... After that let the child know that many aunties / uncles also read his/her 作文, so the child will become more motivated to practise the 作文...

Wow you are very hardworking! I have not gotten my girl to do any chinese compo at all... but it is good to start early slowly...

If you need some comments etc... I can try to help. My chinese can make it lah, has been my best subject throughout and i did higher chinese in NUS... just a bit rusty after so many years but think P1 standard I should have no problem. But I must say that it might be a good idea to post the compo for us to read...

[Callie Tan]

My girl apparently is enjoying hanyu pinyin. Recently, she is using it quite often in day-to-day activites. For eg, i brought her to Bishan park for blading lessons and she started saying the hanyu pinyin for 公园 and which tones… when she fell down she also said "die1, die2, die3, die4, dao1,dao2,dao3, dao4… die1 dao3". So funny!!!


Maybe we can do this with our kids for them to learn as they play.

[Tinkerbelle]

Callie Tan:

My girl apparently is enjoying hanyu pinyin. Recently, she is using it quite often in day-to-day activites. For eg, i brought her to Bishan park for blading lessons and she started saying the hanyu pinyin for 公园 and which tones... when she fell down she also said \"die1, die2, die3, die4, dao1,dao2,dao3, dao4.... die1 dao3\". So funny!!!


Maybe we can do this with our kids for them to learn as they play.

Hi Callie,

Wow!! That sure sounds like a fun way to learn chinese. That way, your DD will pick up lots of good vocab as well. Will come in handy for her oral exams eventually. :lol:

[allseasons]

janet_lee88,


for me, I thought my DS1 hanyupinyin with some 'silly' method.. I don't know the rule of hypy, so to make him memorize easily, and maybe fun for him. For example, when i am revising the first tone character with him, i asked him to move his arm horizontally. For second tone, move the arm a little bit down. And so on for the third and fourth tone... So far so good with this silly method.. hehe :lol:

Callie Tan,
Wow, thanks a lot for your offer

[Callie Tan]

Tinkerbelle:

Callie Tan:

My girl apparently is enjoying hanyu pinyin. Recently, she is using it quite often in day-to-day activites. For eg, i brought her to Bishan park for blading lessons and she started saying the hanyu pinyin for 公园 and which tones... when she fell down she also said \"die1, die2, die3, die4, dao1,dao2,dao3, dao4.... die1 dao3\". So funny!!!


Maybe we can do this with our kids for them to learn as they play.

Hi Callie,

Wow!! That sure sounds like a fun way to learn chinese. That way, your DD will pick up lots of good vocab as well. Will come in handy for her oral exams eventually. :lol:

It is quite hilarious when she goes around yi1 yi2 yi3 yi4 and on and on... but I encourage her because at least she's getting the basic concept etc right rather than memorize the hanyu pinyin... and i can correct on the spot when she get it wrong.

She can speak quite fluently in Mandarin because I speak to her in Mandarin, but writing and recognizing the chinese characters need to work harder....

[Callie Tan]

allseasons:

janet_lee88,


for me, I thought my DS1 hanyupinyin with some 'silly' method.. I don't know the rule of hypy, so to make him memorize easily, and maybe fun for him. For example, when i am revising the first tone character with him, i asked him to move his arm horizontally. For second tone, move the arm a little bit down. And so on for the third and fourth tone... So far so good with this silly method.. hehe :lol:

Callie Tan,
Wow, thanks a lot for your offer to comment on my DS1 compo. Not hard working lah.. haha, I am just a bit kiasu and don't want my sons follow my footstep, so lousy with chinese.. hehe :oops: . Everyweek I asked my DS to write one short compo about anything he likes, and read with me.. He can write simple one and I can read, but I don't know whether it is grammatically correct.. haha.. :oops:

No problem... 举手之劳... glad if I can help.

[janet88]

Hi mummies,

I hope to ramp up my gal’s hanyu pinyin during the march holiday, as well as the other 2 subjects. She needs some serious attention as I’ve neglected her bcos of son’s CA. Wish me luck.

[auntieM]

janet_lee88:

Hi mummies,

I hope to ramp up my gal's hanyu pinyin during the march holiday, as well as the other 2 subjects. She needs some serious attention as I've neglected her bcos of son's CA. Wish me luck.

Good luck janet_lee88.. ..
My P2 DS need some 'tuning' this coming March holidays too.. ..

[limchen]

janet_lee88:

Hi Yong HL,

I agree with you that the a e i o u don't apply all the time. My son gave up explaining to me liao. HaHaHa.

Hope to help clarify on tone marks.

There's a 口诀 on pg 32 of P1A Textbook (Normal Chinese) on 调号/ tone mark which is very useful. I was surprised my P1 son could rattle it off and he said it was taught by his kindergarten teacher.

有 a 不放过 (e.g. tone mark is on \"a\" in jiao and \"zao\"
无 a 找 o e
i u 并列标在后 (when i u are together, the tone mark is on the last vowel. Examples: In \"hui\", the tone mark is on \"i\" as it's the last vowel. In \"liu\", the tone mark is on \"u\")
单个韵母不必说 (if there's only one vowel, it's always on that vowel)

The P1 textbook did not elaborate but I found these explanations in the SAP publisher ”小一高级华文课文字词手册 so have shared above.

By the way, I LOVE to buy assessment books too and big thankyou to Janet_lee88 and Plum Cake for the generous sharing in the forums! I'm definitely more excited about the books than my P1 son! :boogie:

:celebrate: Cheers to all mommies addicted to purchase of assessment books! Getting an ROI from them is another big ??? :rotflmao:

[janet88]

limchen:

janet_lee88:

Hi Yong HL,

I agree with you that the a e i o u don't apply all the time. My son gave up explaining to me liao. HaHaHa.

By the way, I LOVE to buy assessment books too and big thankyou to Janet_lee88 and Plum Cake for the generous sharing in the forums! I'm definitely more excited about the books than my P1 son! :boogie:
:

I love to buy things...now that I have no need to go shopping much as a SAHM, my attention is on the kids and the enjoyment and satisfaction derived from buying useful assessment books.

For Chinese, my advice is to be careful with the answers provided at the back, esp EPH ones. For Chinese, I like 黄海君 and 蔡云飞.