P1 Chinese - General Discussion

[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.

[Champion]

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.

Janet,
加油! You sure can do it and your DD will know that mummy is putting a lot of effort & love with her too :love: :celebrate:

My 2 DDs are 3 years apart and I will face the same scenario when DD2 enters P1 next year..guess, by then I also need a lot of adjustments :lol:

[janet88]

Champion:

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.

Janet,
加油! You sure can do it and your DD will know that mummy is putting a lot of effort & love with her too :love: :celebrate:

My 2 DDs are 3 years apart and I will face the same scenario when DD2 enters P1 next year..guess, by then I also need a lot of adjustments :lol:

My gal is not 7 yet as she is a year end bb...she is still very playful. Needs to motivate and encourage her to do her work confidently...as I always tell her, teacher in primary school doesn't have time to sit beside her and teach her one-to-one.