Teaching Chinese at Home

[ksme]

Brenda10:

Hi Tamarind,


Share with you something interesting while we were discussing the appropriate phrases to put in 一段作文情节，，DD suggested to add in 仿佛中了邪似的 as it was quite suitable for that situation. I asked her how to write 邪 and she tell me this word is same with 辟邪剑法！

I find that she has better phrases and more ci yu after reading of so many CL story books.

Congratulations Brenda! My ds have not been progressing much on his chinese reading. It's been a busy year. Must work hard to get him to read more chinese book at this coming holiday liao. Your dd is our role model!

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[Brenda10]

ksme:

Brenda10:

Hi Tamarind,


Share with you something interesting while we were discussing the appropriate phrases to put in 一段作文情节，，DD suggested to add in 仿佛中了邪似的 as it was quite suitable for that situation. I asked her how to write 邪 and she tell me this word is same with 辟邪剑法！

I find that she has better phrases and more ci yu after reading of so many CL story books.

Congratulations Brenda! My ds have not been progressing much on his chinese reading. It's been a busy year. Must work hard to get him to read more chinese book at this coming holiday liao. Your dd is our role model!

Hi ksme,

Thank you for your encouragement.

This year end holiday will be the best timing to pick up the CL story books. In fact, DD also started reading more since last November.

Jiayou! :rahrah:

[laughingcat]

Congrats Brenda! Your hardwork pays well.


Both you and Tamarind are my role model in teaching chinese at home.

I hope in due time i can achieve the same result as Tamarind and Brenda in getting my children to love to read Chinese books. Nowadays, when i passed english and chinese story books to them, they rather pick up english story books first. I will perservere.

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Thanks all for the tips and advises.

[tamarind]

laughingcat:

Congrats Brenda! Your hardwork pays well.


Both you and Tamarind are my role model in teaching chinese at home.

I hope in due time i can achieve the same result as Tamarind and Brenda in getting my children to love to read Chinese books. Nowadays, when i passed english and chinese story books to them, they rather pick up english story books first. I will perservere.

Hi laughingcat and all other parents,
I really hope that you don't believe people who tell you that it is impossible to learn Chinese the fun way, and that you must make a child memorize many hours of Chinese model essays in order to be good at it. I have always enjoyed learning Chinese and I have never memorized any model essays, but I always score very high marks in Chinese all the way to JC. Most importantly, I continue to read Chinese books and newspapers all my life. If you force a child to learn Chinese the hard way, your child will hate to use Chinese when he is an adult. One important point to note is that, a child who memorize Chinese without understand is very likely to make mistakes and get even more marks deducted. The best way to learn Chinese is always to read extensively, because when children encounter the same words in many different sentences, she will understand how to use it much better than those who simply memorized it.

My girl now writes very good Chinese essays without my help, and best of all, she writes on her own initiative. Do you want to force a child to memorize Chinese model essays for many hours a day all the way to secondary school ? Or do you want a child who is very motivated to learn Chinese on her own, enjoys reading Chinese books and don't have to bother you at all ? It is absolutely possible to nurture the second type of children. Parents should learn what is the best methods of learning Chinese from the educational experts. Most of what I have written so far is inspired by the authors of the bestselling parenting and educational books in China. Also, instead of spending time looking for assessment books and model compositions, parents should spend time researching for books that will interest your child.

As for those parents who force their children to memorize essays, they totally do not understand the purpose of education.

[toddles]

hquek:

indigoblue:

i am not so good in chinese ,but somehow i feel there is somethng missing here我有蓝猪 ?
need 数量单位词？

it is applaudable that u are teaching your kid the language from young, but i think it is even better if you could try teach them to say in full sentence ,it really helps when they need to 造句 in school.
just like you won't want them to start saying \"me Tarzan , you Jane \"

Thanks Indigoblue,

The point of the game is to make something out of the cards he has on hand. The cards are placed face down (hypy is visible but he can't read that yet). He doesn't see which card he will get before he tries. Only if he succeed in reading, then he can claim as his own.

I understand and concur on the part where I should introduce proper sentence to him. But I rather he recognise the words and get fun out of it, than worry about sentence construction. I don't want to crimp his style by objecting at every turn what he makes of it. We'll laugh if his sentence is ludicrous.

That said, the example is utterly a figment of my imagination, I couldn't think of what to type.

Just for comic relief, just make sure you don't have the words that make up \"大懒觉”。True story, my aunt once read a chinese assessment book which said \"他睡了一个大懒觉\" and my grandma was horrified and told her to stop saying that! hahahaha... guess we can't assume that all chinese writers know hokkien...

[Brenda10]

laughingcat:

Congrats Brenda! Your hardwork pays well.


Both you and Tamarind are my role model in teaching chinese at home.

I hope in due time i can achieve the same result as Tamarind and Brenda in getting my children to love to read Chinese books. Nowadays, when i passed english and chinese story books to them, they rather pick up english story books first. I will perservere.

Hi laughingcat,

Thank you and I'm sure your perservere will also pay off.

Think important is find the book that can spark their interest and they will be willing to carry on with the CL books.

The following are some of the interesting CL comics books that we just borrow on Sunday:

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[ksme]

Brenda,

You managed to get so many of them at 1 go? May I check with you which library you go to? Are these are the children’s section?

Thanks.

[MandyMummy]

Hi, Brenda10, thanks for sharing. The books look interesting.

Just curious, does your dd read more Chinese comic books or Chinese novels/ short stories?