Teaching Chinese at Home

[Brenda10]

micollh:

Brenda10:

:congrats: Your dd is progressing well.
:celebrate:

Thanks Brenda10, i will continue with DD, hopefully this will help her to read chinese better..thanks to tamarind for recommending the books

True. We get to know about source of dangdang. Tamarind has also introducing xiao mao ri ji otherwise we may not aware of such good novel for upper primary.

[Brenda10]

Hi, just return some 陆小风 comics and seems that dd and my nephew like them so much


It bring back the nice memory of 四条眉毛, 西门吹雪, 花满楼 etc :love:

[phankao]

I like the new SWKD storybook. I just bought from sgshine(local) since I only I only wanted this book. Stories very short. Words not difficult at all. Superb for my 2year old! Are the SWKD levels 5 or 6 more difficult than the stories in this book?

[laughingcat]

phankao:

I like the new SWKD storybook. I just bought from sgshine(local) since I only I only wanted this book. Stories very short. Words not difficult at all. Superb for my 2year old! Are the SWKD levels 5 or 6 more difficult than the stories in this book?

My ordered SWKD storybook have not come in yet leh. So I don't know how different as compared to level 5-7. Maybe I will scan a few pages of level 5 - 7 and you see if there is any difference in diffciluty level?

I hope there are differences, coz both my DS almost completed book 7 and they loved SWKD alot. Everynight sure ask for it.

[phankao]

laughingcat:

phankao:

I like the new SWKD storybook. I just bought from sgshine(local) since I only I only wanted this book. Stories very short. Words not difficult at all. Superb for my 2year old! Are the SWKD levels 5 or 6 more difficult than the stories in this book?

My ordered SWKD storybook have not come in yet leh. So I don't know how different as compared to level 5-7. Maybe I will scan a few pages of level 5 - 7 and you see if there is any difference in diffciluty level?

I hope there are differences, coz both my DS almost completed book 7 and they loved SWKD alot. Everynight sure ask for it.

Oh, ok - bc if 5-7 is more difficult, then I'll consider getting. Maybe I'll scan some of the pages (take photo maybe easier) of the storybook ...but don't know when free...must be in daylight.

[phankao]

laughingcat:

My ordered SWKD storybook have not come in yet leh. So I don't know how different as compared to level 5-7. Maybe I will scan a few pages of level 5 - 7 and you see if there is any difference in diffciluty level?

I hope there are differences, coz both my DS almost completed book 7 and they loved SWKD alot. Everynight sure ask for it.

Ok, I just read the Author's Note in the Front (the Foreward). This storybook should be building upon what has been touched on in the books:

。。。“用一种方法让孩子学完《四五快读》前七册后， 更快提高阅读兴趣和阅读能力”。。。“我想，如果能够根据《四五快读》已经学过的汉字编写更多有趣的故事，孩子们读的时候，。。。”

I've glanced through the whole book. The first few stories are not difficult. These are the 1st 2 stories. Each are 2 pages long:

Story 1:
Page1: http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5193/5818419356_a0e59d97c1_z.jpg
Page2: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2324/5817850855_80ac9db84b_z.jpg

Story 2:
Page1: http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5157/5818418672_104a6f3f50_z.jpg

But from Story no.9, there are some \"new words\", it seems? Bc the story highlights these words at the end of the story. Not very difficult words though.

The last story in the book probably is supposed to be the most \"difficult\".
Page.1: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2446/5818417900_4dbcc11b07_z.jpg

Page2: http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5223/5818417692_087b259453_z.jpg

Page3: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2199/5817849419_534d8bbb0f_z.jpg

You can see how there are some words highlighted at the last page of this last story, altho' they also don't seem to be quite unknown words. Only maybe \"zhen\"...the rest not so difficult.

I gauge this to be around Pri 3 standard, based on vocabulary list on MOE website.

[laughingcat]

here are the pictures. BTW, paisei I have forgotten that book 7 is a revision book and hence there are no stories at all.


Book 5 examples:-
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Book 6 examples:-
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[laughingcat]

phankao, based on your pictures taken on the last story, it seems that SWKD storybook is more difficult than the book 6 leh. What do you think?


You are right that based on MOE vocab list, the SWKD is only up to pri 3 level.

[chrismei]

bigmac:

Postman came at 1pm and I have received my items. :celebrate:

That good.

Update... finally dangdang refunded my $ but back to their account and NOT to my credit card account. They are requesting me to order new books ...hmmm...i did not make purchase as i bought a lot of good chinese storybooks at NTUC selling $1.90 to $2.90...(worth $5.90 to $10.00 per book in popular)...not sure if anyone post in kiasu?

My gal born in Sep 06 is at 十五快读报- book 3, chapter 29...hopefully we can finish book 3 by end of this month...

[phankao]

laughingcat:

here are the pictures. BTW, paisei I have forgotten that book 7 is a revision book and hence there are no stories at all.


Book 5 examples:-

Book 6 examples:-

Nice - so Book 5 & 6 there are stories too, that means. Are there many? I've only seen the page from book 6 in Tamarind's blog. Aiyoh, I'm so tempted to get. I like books that have fairly big word stories, like these. But I don't want the whole series, only those that have stories.