P1 Chinese - General Discussion

[san76]

Hi Moms,


Try getting some simple chinese stories book that has HYPY. From reading it will strengthen their HYPY at the same time they will also remember some chinese characters.

Need not to get books of their age, start from simple maybe 5 yr olds or 6yr old. Slowly upgrade to 7yr old. If you start with 7yr old books, too much words will frighten them and soon they will lost the interest to go on.

Get books that they like, maybe with cute animated characters.

Dont stress them to read, encourage and joke with them so they will be happy learning chinese.

Language is one of the tough and boring subject to learn and master. Either you know or give up.

Try the above method.

Smile.

[curiousl-ks]

I have the same challenge to get my K2 girl interested in Chinese...cos she speaks mandarin like Ang Mo...



Got some interaactive CD from A-star which are fun for learning.. you might want to consider... they have a whole range from K1 to primary school as well...

http://www.a-star.com.sg/

[san76]

curiousl-ks:

I have the same challenge to get my K2 girl interested in Chinese...cos she speaks mandarin like Ang Mo...



Got some interaactive CD from A-star which are fun for learning.. you might want to consider... they have a whole range from K1 to primary school as well...

http://www.a-star.com.sg/

Dear Curious-KS,

Thank you.

My son now can read on his own with HYPY and even got him a teacher here to guide him along. He is now in P1, so not time to let him learn alone. Initial stage like K1, K2 is the only time he starts to pick up his Mandarin and Chinese's character. Now he can even write a 2 full pages of composition on his own. All thanks to his chinese tutor.

Now I am encouraging him to read more so that he will knows what is happening around him. He is also learning what is the things he knows in english but not in Mandarin. In the past, he didnt know what is a lizard in mandarin, pihu. He thought pigu= butt. someone said that pihu=lizard will drops its tail. He asked me, mom why pigu will drop its tail when I have no tail? I laughed out.

Thanks for the advise. Reading is really good for kids.

[ChiefKiasu]

san76:

... In the past, he didnt know what is a lizard in mandarin, pihu. He thought pigu= butt. someone said that pihu=lizard will drops its tail. He asked me, mom why pigu will drop its tail when I have no tail? I laughed out...

Kekeke... that's really funny :lol:

[san76]

ChiefKiasu:

san76:

... In the past, he didnt know what is a lizard in mandarin, pihu. He thought pigu= butt. someone said that pihu=lizard will drops its tail. He asked me, mom why pigu will drop its tail when I have no tail? I laughed out...

Kekeke... that's really funny :lol:

Thats the fun part of having kids. They are so naive and clean. I just love seeing them growing day by day. Each day is a new history for tomorrow.

Cheers its weekend.

[mowmow]

san76:

ChiefKiasu:

[quote=\"san76\"]... In the past, he didnt know what is a lizard in mandarin, pihu. He thought pigu= butt. someone said that pihu=lizard will drops its tail. He asked me, mom why pigu will drop its tail when I have no tail? I laughed out...

Kekeke... that's really funny :lol:

Thats the fun part of having kids. They are so naive and clean. I just love seeing them growing day by day. Each day is a new history for tomorrow.

Cheers its weekend.[/quote]Sorry, do not want to sound rude, but thot should do a correction here. lizard = bi hu(in mandarin) not pihu.

[titank]

Wow seem like I need to do some preparation for P1 chinese as my DS also the type said chinese is difficult. Writing chinese character for spelling test he felt stress.Any recommendations on how able to recognise chinese character?

[sleepy]

Ask my dd to practice writing, her tears will roll. She would continue writing while grumbling 'I hate Chinese' & then get full marks for her tingxie nevertheless


I guess I've given up hope that she would fall in love with Chinese one day. I'm very grateful if she would just endure it

[amylqf]

titank:

Wow seem like I need to do some preparation for P1 chinese as my DS also the type said chinese is difficult. Writing chinese character for spelling test he felt stress.Any recommendations on how able to recognise chinese character?

similar book like \"Zi Xing Hua\" will probably have more interesting factor in recognition of words.

Besides this, I explain to my child that learning chinese is not matter of choice. give her numerous example of benefit of learning chinese.

[jedamum]

sleepy:

Ask my dd to practice writing, her tears will roll. She would continue writing while grumbling 'I hate Chinese' & then get full marks for her tingxie nevertheless


I guess I've given up hope that she would fall in love with Chinese one day. I'm very grateful if she would just endure it

sleepy,

my ds1 who doesn't speak good mandarin (he usually translates his english thoughts to mandarin before speaking) considers Chinese as his favourite subject (as of now ). i have to thank Berries' (again ) teachers and his current batch of chinese classmates (although i think he is in the bottom tier in his Chinese class, he relish the exposure to his fellow classmates' superb chinese diction - guess i'm lucky that he overcome the initial stress). have to thank Chief too for the e-dict too
He doesn't always get full marks though, but i'm just glad i don't have to nag at him to practise tingxie and doing chinese workbook and his chinese handwriting (not as much if compared to english handwriting :roll:).

so sleepy, i think your girl just need to be in the right 'environment' and be motivated by the right teacher to bring out her potential (don't like chinese but still can get full marks...surely have good foundation ).