Comparing Chinese Enrichment (Primary/Preschool)

[MummyThreeStreams]

I just signed DS1 up for Berries! I must confess that we didn’t do much shopping around. We just wanted something that would help him enjoy the language. His word recognition and understanding is already not bad but he doesn’t feel comfortable speaking in Chinese (and neither do I!). Berries was the most conveniently located, and had the right scheduling for us. We also considered Hua, but the timing was all wrong. We took a trial class at Berries and really liked the atmosphere there. It’s very positive and nurturing. The clincher was my son who told us he enjoyed the class and he very rarely says that for any class we send him too (even those classes we know he does enjoy)! But that was just the impression from one class. Let’s see how things go.

[laughingcat]

Here is the link to Zhi Ying Language School


http://www.zhiying.com.sg/

I read that another mummy felt that their syllabus is not inline with Singapore. Is it still true?

http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php&p=124077

[raisintan]

Hi mummies,


I know Berries is good for pre-schoolers. What about for primary going kids? Any recommendation?

[bigsnoopy]

How about Han Language? They have a new centre at habourfront. Any comment?

[Angelight]

DD attended a trial lesson at Zhi Ying. She rather likes the lesson, but fees abit steep - $420 for 16 lessons. Is it more ex than the other enrichment classes?

[jedamum]

Angelight:

DD attended a trial lesson at Zhi Ying. She rather likes the lesson, but fees abit steep - $420 for 16 lessons. Is it more ex than the other enrichment classes?

what is the duration of lesson? ie what is the rate per hour?

[jansonirene]

My daughter attended Tien Hsia for more than 6 mths in K1 class. Yet, she can hardly speak a word of chinese. During the performance at the end of each semester, she could not recite the poems like what other kids do. She also cannot recognise the chinese characters on flash cards. Quite difficult words like crab, giraffe in chinese. I am pulling her out and going for Berries instead. I think at least for someone like her who grows up in an English speaking environment, it is more important to instill fun in learning at early stages.

Monster Mummy:

starystarynite:

Hi All,

Berries has a super long queue for nursery level. i checked all west and central branches.

waiting list as long as 60 people in front. So, i need to consider Tien hsie, hua and beijing language school.

Iam looking for one that can cultivate interest for my son and build up his vocab and also confidence level when reading.

Some told me Tien hsia is too stressful for nursery level. With all the spelling and hanyu pinying?? for nursery level?

Any comment on these 3 language centres?and particularly tien hsia orchard centre,is the teacher good??

Thanks all .
stary

Hi,
My children attend the class in Tien Hsia. I am not quite sure in which area they refer as stressful, maybe the end semester got performance in front of the parents. I believed that this is quite good as it instill the children to learn to face the crowd.

As for spelling and hanyupinying, it is only started in K1/K2 but still quite minimum. For K1, they only have around 1 spelling per semester while K2 around 2 spelling semester and hanyupinying also not so rigorous.

[mummyloves]

jedamum:

Angelight:

DD attended a trial lesson at Zhi Ying. She rather likes the lesson, but fees abit steep - $420 for 16 lessons. Is it more ex than the other enrichment classes?

what is the duration of lesson? ie what is the rate per hour?

Duration is 1.5 hours. Rate per hour is $17.5. Comparing with others I think it is one of the more resasonably priced one?

My kid attends the preschool class. not too sure abt the primary school level how relevant is it to singapore syllabus.

[jedamum]

mummyloves:

jedamum:

[quote=\"Angelight\"]DD attended a trial lesson at Zhi Ying. She rather likes the lesson, but fees abit steep - $420 for 16 lessons. Is it more ex than the other enrichment classes?

what is the duration of lesson? ie what is the rate per hour?

Duration is 1.5 hours. Rate per hour is $17.5. Comparing with others I think it is one of the more resasonably priced one?

My kid attends the preschool class. not too sure abt the primary school level how relevant is it to singapore syllabus.[/quote]yes. the rate is more or less like that, so not consider steep. it looks steep probably because it is charged per 16lessons. berries is charge per 12lessons.

[Angelight]

Hi jedamum, each lesson is one and a half hrs.

jedamum:

Angelight:

DD attended a trial lesson at Zhi Ying. She rather likes the lesson, but fees abit steep - $420 for 16 lessons. Is it more ex than the other enrichment classes?

what is the duration of lesson? ie what is the rate per hour?