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[tamarind]

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BTW, in your own opinion how do you encourage your children to speak more mandarin? Coz I have this little problem here. Both my kids can read chinese books quite well. However when comes to conversing, they are really bad. Most of the time tongue tied. How do I resolve this?[/quote]Hi laughingcat,
I started out by using Mandarin to discuss about the Chinese stories they are reading. My kids often ask questions about the stories, or give their opinions, I encourage them to speak in Mandarin and I always reply in Mandarin.

Another way that I tried was to let my girl read all the conversations in the Doraemon comics out loud to me. She finished 6 books, and she liked it so much that she memorized some of the conversation and repeated them to me.

When they are watching the 宫崎骏 movies or the 喜洋洋 cartoons, they also repeat some of the conversations that they think are funny.

The best way is still to speak only in Mandarin to them everyday. Kids will be resistant at first, and they may not reply in Mandarin, but after a while when they are more confident, they will speak in Mandarin.

[tamarind]

Hi genmai,

I also tried calling the courier company before and no one answered. So I did not try calling them again.

It is absolutely fine to ask the courier guy to come back another time, even though he is already at the place. This is expected of their job. I did it a few times when I was in China. The courier guys always readily agreed to come another time. It's no trouble for them because their job is running around to deliver. Remember that labour is cheap in China

[genmai]

Hi Tamarind,


True also! Guess I was anxious cos first time ordering and Dad's only there for less than a week.

I was asking him about the delivery man's attitute etc cos Dangdang has a feedback form to fill. Dad was telling me he's a young chap with good attitude and many places to run. Guess their cheap labour work really hard.

[tamarind]

genmai:

Hi Tamarind,


True also! Guess I was anxious cos first time ordering and Dad's only there for less than a week.

I was asking him about the delivery man's attitute etc cos Dangdang has a feedback form to fill. Dad was telling me he's a young chap with good attitude and many places to run. Guess their cheap labour work really hard.

Yes the young people in China work very hard, and I think that service in general is good, because they are afraid of losing their jobs. It's probably not easy to find a job in China.

I even see young, attractive people(mainland Chinese) working as cleaners in the high speed trains. I was surprised at first, because we always see middle aged aunties or foreign workers doing this type of jobs in Singapore.

[hquek]

For those who’ve been placing orders, do check your account from time to time.


Recently, I saw in my account some vouchers gifted from dangdang - some I believe is from my shopping in Feb 2011 and others no clue whatsoever. My chinese not that great, I can’t understand why they gave me those vouchers. Still, I have happily utilised some of those vouchers.

Not sure if it’s becos I’m old customer, or if they changed their process. My order last week went through from placement to goods being shipped out within 3 working days…I didn’t have to send them email about payment details. Impressed…hopefully can get the books safely and soon.

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hquek,

What kind of vouchers did you get? DD gave me those 百货专用礼券 which I can't use at all for DD books purchase. So, I just let it expired...

hquek:

For those who've been placing orders, do check your account from time to time.

Recently, I saw in my account some vouchers gifted from dangdang - some I believe is from my shopping in Feb 2011 and others no clue whatsoever. My chinese not that great, I can't understand why they gave me those vouchers. Still, I have happily utilised some of those vouchers.

[tamarind]

hquek:

For those who've been placing orders, do check your account from time to time.


Recently, I saw in my account some vouchers gifted from dangdang - some I believe is from my shopping in Feb 2011 and others no clue whatsoever. My chinese not that great, I can't understand why they gave me those vouchers. Still, I have happily utilised some of those vouchers.

Not sure if it's becos I'm old customer, or if they changed their process. My order last week went through from placement to goods being shipped out within 3 working days...I didn't have to send them email about payment details. Impressed....hopefully can get the books safely and soon.

My latest orders were also shipped without any email verification required

I forgot to use my vouchers, some of them expired I only managed to use one.

[SAHM_TAN]

hquek:

For those who've been placing orders, do check your account from time to time.


Recently, I saw in my account some vouchers gifted from dangdang - some I believe is from my shopping in Feb 2011 and others no clue whatsoever. My chinese not that great, I can't understand why they gave me those vouchers. Still, I have happily utilised some of those vouchers.

Thanks for sharing, I have a shopping voucher, but not sure I fancy anything from their shopping store

[hquek]

nz:

hquek,

What kind of vouchers did you get? DD gave me those 百货专用礼券 which I can't use at all for DD books purchase. So, I just let it expired...

oh! I thought 百货 is for anything. I just received one of those in my account few days ago. If it's only that category, then forget it. In the past, I tried to order some kids' clothes (for fun), but they don't accept overseas credit card.

The other type I got was \"2月图书全场满返\" and \"2月图书全场满返\" - placed 3 orders in all and got 3 vouchers. These expire May 2011.

[SAHM Chew]

I email DD about my order, and this is the reply i got from them.



针对此问题， 非常抱歉，您的订单已延迟，为表歉意我们会在2个工作日在您的账户中放入一张5元礼券，现提供您邮寄包裹号：RRxxxxxxxxxCN，您可以到订单地址的所属邮局查询包裹，同时，邮局规定包裹发货后2个月可以转邮局查询，若您的订单在4月21日您还没有收到，可以及时和我们联系。感谢您的支持与谅解！