Teaching Chinese at Home

[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..

[Brenda10]

Brenda10:

HaHa, just now go through the CD Rack and realize that we had bought 1 of the 宫崎骏作品: 哈尔的移动城堡 (Howl's Moving Castle) in Japanese with English Subtitles few years ago from TS Video.

Hi, recd today the 宫崎骏作品全辑 (收藏经典）, 12 DVD this morning and now dd is watching the show. The picture is very clear and wonderful. Their mandarin are also very clear and easy to understand without the CL subtitle. DD is still exploring how to select CL subtitle.

Haha. Good entertainment for this school holiday lah. :dancing:

[hquek]

Sorry, the kameila series with audiocd is this http://product.dangdang.com/product.aspx?product_id=20987854&ref=customer-0-B.


It's much pricier than the normal set (ie books only) - however the books are hardcover, there are some cutouts (supposed to be for puppet show) and the audiocd. I bought during an offer period - one can try waiting. FYI, this set is super duper heavy, so you may like to consider hard if you are looking to use forwarders like daigou (understand they charge by weight).

[Trapwithin]

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.

If you have an iPad and do not mind reading from it, you can get the whole series for lass than US$5. I bought it end of last year from the Apps store.

[Trapwithin]

PiggyLalala:

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..

It is about a chicken. the story content are good for discussion and the language use can be used for chinese essay in primary school. Good series to buy and keep.

[PiggyLalala]

hquek:

Sorry, the kameila series with audiocd is this http://product.dangdang.com/product.aspx?product_id=20987854&ref=customer-0-B.


It's much pricier than the normal set (ie books only) - however the books are hardcover, there are some cutouts (supposed to be for puppet show) and the audiocd. I bought during an offer period - one can try waiting. FYI, this set is super duper heavy, so you may like to consider hard if you are looking to use forwarders like daigou (understand they charge by weight).

Thanks

[PiggyLalala]

Trapwithin:

PiggyLalala:

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..

It is about a chicken. the story content are good for discussion and the language use can be used for chinese essay in primary school. Good series to buy and keep.

Thanks
Will look for the books in the lib first.. but I doubt the lib has the books...:(

[hquek]

PiggyLalala:

Trapwithin:

[quote=\"PiggyLalala\"]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..

It is about a chicken. the story content are good for discussion and the language use can be used for chinese essay in primary school. Good series to buy and keep.

Thanks
Will look for the books in the lib first.. but I doubt the lib has the books...:([/quote]NLB has, but the last time I tried to find (for fun), it was on loan.

[PiggyLalala]

thanks for the information. Will look for the books each time when i visit the lib..:)

[ksme]

Trapwithin:

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.

If you have an iPad and do not mind reading from it, you can get the whole series for lass than US$5. I bought it end of last year from the Apps store.[/quote]Thanks Trapwithin. I don't have an iPad. :oops: