Teaching Chinese at Home

[Brenda10]

micollh:

mummy, for 4 yo (nursery), do we start to teach them to write chinese and also the bu4 sou3 ? i only started to teach my DD to recognise chinese words. when do you start to teach HanYuPinYing ?

Hi, we let dd learn HYPY in the early K2.

[micollh]

Brenda10:

micollh:

mummy, for 4 yo (nursery), do we start to teach them to write chinese and also the bu4 sou3 ? i only started to teach my DD to recognise chinese words. when do you start to teach HanYuPinYing ?

Hi, we let dd learn HYPY in the early K2.

ok. thanks. so i wont start with DD now, it may confuse her with alphabets i think.

how about Bu4 sou3 i saw in popular for nursery the chinese workbook has bu4sou3 also bi3hua4

[Brenda10]

micollh:

Brenda10:

[quote=\"micollh\"]mummy, for 4 yo (nursery), do we start to teach them to write chinese and also the bu4 sou3 ? i only started to teach my DD to recognise chinese words. when do you start to teach HanYuPinYing ?

Hi, we let dd learn HYPY in the early K2.

ok. thanks. so i wont start with DD now, it may confuse her with alphabets i think.

how about Bu4 sou3 i saw in popular for nursery the chinese workbook has bu4sou3 also bi3hua4[/quote]
Hi, we did not expose her to all these when she was at that age. What I can remember is her childcare have started let them written many CL words from K1 or K2 (cannot remember exact). If I did not remember wrongly they had learnt to write word like 蜻蜓 etc

[ksme]

phankao:

ksme:

Thanks Brenda. Your dd can read very fast. For my ds, he takes quite long to finish chinese books. I think I shall check out Dangdang and get some in for dec holidays reading.

The 老猫 is very thin book though.

Thanks Phankao. Good idea. I shall try to check out at NLB. Did you find it at the kids section or adults section?

[phankao]

ksme:

phankao:

[quote=\"ksme\"]Thanks Brenda. Your dd can read very fast. For my ds, he takes quite long to finish chinese books. I think I shall check out Dangdang and get some in for dec holidays reading.

The 老猫 is very thin book though.

Thanks Phankao. Good idea. I shall try to check out at NLB. Did you find it at the kids section or adults section?[/quote]For NLB, it should be in the Young Fiction section. I only borrowed \"lan xue ren\" from NLB, but I'd reserved it online, so didn't get from shelves.

For the 老猫 , I got from my son's primary school library. Don't even need to reserve. Many copies of different books in the same series, unlike NLB. Not popular I guess.

[ksme]

phankao:

For NLB, it should be in the Young Fiction section. I only borrowed \"lan xue ren\" from NLB, but I'd reserved it online, so didn't get from shelves.

For the 老猫 , I got from my son's primary school library. Don't even need to reserve. Many copies of different books in the same series, unlike NLB. Not popular I guess.

Thanks. Will check it out.

[PiggyLalala]

what is the book 老猫about?one of the 卫斯里 series? any 汉语拼音? I have a hard time persuading my children to read chinese books. :mad:

[hquek]

PiggyLalala:

what is the book 老猫about?one of the 卫斯里 series? any 汉语拼音? I have a hard time persuading my children to read chinese books. :mad:

not sure how old your kids are, but seriously consider the kameila series. So far everyone to whom I recommend these books (kids age ranges from 3-8) all loved it. There is no pinyin, but if you buy the commemorative set, there is an audio cd.

My kids generally hate to listen to audio books, but that one is an exception.

[allseasons]

hquek:

PiggyLalala:

what is the book 老猫about?one of the 卫斯里 series? any 汉语拼音? I have a hard time persuading my children to read chinese books. :mad:

not sure how old your kids are, but seriously consider the kameila series. So far everyone to whom I recommend these books (kids age ranges from 3-8) all loved it. There is no pinyin, but if you buy the commemorative set, there is an audio cd.

My kids generally hate to listen to audio books, but that one is an exception.

Hi hquek,

What are the kameila series? Any link that I can click for browsing? My kids love audio books.. Thanks a lot

[PiggyLalala]

allseasons:

hquek:

[quote=\"PiggyLalala\"]what is the book 老猫about?one of the 卫斯里 series? any 汉语拼音? I have a hard time persuading my children to read chinese books. :mad:

not sure how old your kids are, but seriously consider the kameila series. So far everyone to whom I recommend these books (kids age ranges from 3-8) all loved it. There is no pinyin, but if you buy the commemorative set, there is an audio cd.

My kids generally hate to listen to audio books, but that one is an exception.

Hi hquek,

What are the kameila series? Any link that I can click for browsing? My kids love audio books.. Thanks a lot :)[/quote]Thanks hquek.
I would like to know more about this kameila series too. Kameila = a girl's name? so it is a story about a girl??? haha... just my wild guess..