Learning Chinese (Primary/Preschool)

[Chenonceau]

mother777:

just pm you. actually i wont be able to teach her as mandarin is not our MT. just wanted to now from where to source the book when she reach P4 level :love:

you know being a kiasu parent, its not easy to avoid temptation of buying books for future use :?: :please:

Ummm... you were the last one in... so are you still interested? If not, there is one more place.

For book... the publishers collate one every year. Why don't you wait and get the 2014 one when your DD is in P4? You can get from dang dang, the Chinese online book shop. There is something called Peeka too. I bought from dang dang before and got them to send to a friend in China. It seems that if you have an overseas address, they cheat you or something... I'm not the best person to ask because I ask others to shop for me. I dunno enough Chinese to shop on a PRC website.

For those who signed up, it's just an informal Mommy gathering where I guide you in the same way as I did here... http://www.petunialee.blogspot.com/2011/12/as-little-boy.html.
So, it's a relax... relax sorta thing. No stress for me. :hugs:

It is only useful if you intend to teach your child. If you outsource to tutor, then this isn't for you. I also can't read Mandarin. I speak and write French.

[mother777]

Chenonceau:

mother777:

just pm you. actually i wont be able to teach her as mandarin is not our MT. just wanted to now from where to source the book when she reach P4 level :love:

you know being a kiasu parent, its not easy to avoid temptation of buying books for future use :?: :please:

Ummm... you were the last one in... so are you still interested? If not, there is one more place.

For book... the publishers collate one every year. Why don't you wait and get the 2014 one when your DD is in P4? You can get from dang dang, the Chinese online book shop. There is something called Peeka too. I bought from dang dang before and got them to send to a friend in China. It seems that if you have an overseas address, they cheat you or something... I'm not the best person to ask because I ask others to shop for me. I dunno enough Chinese to shop on a PRC website.

For those who signed up, it's just an informal Mommy gathering where I guide you in the same way as I did here... http://www.petunialee.blogspot.com/2011/12/as-little-boy.html.
So, it's a relax... relax sorta thing. No stress for me. :hugs:

It is only useful if you intend to teach your child. If you outsource to tutor, then this isn't for you. I also can't read Mandarin. I speak and write French.

well, I do have a tutor for my DD as I worry I wont be able to do justice to her..

But do make her do chinese assessment books or read + write compos from compo books which I buy for her.

I print the past year question papers and make her do it, but outsource the marking to tuition teacher (home tutor)

so far my DD is doing good. her tutor who is from china says her memory is good and she can score A* if she continues the way she is doing now. Just hope my DD will do well..long time to go to PSLE

about buying the compendium of compos, it looks difficult for me to order from dangdang as I cannot read mandarin :stupid:

I would really luv to attend the parent-child session. it will give a good insight to my DD about other kids..who are also working hard towards a good PSLE score.

Pls do advise me if you can let me join the session

[Chenonceau]

mother777:

Chenonceau:

[quote=\"mother777\"]
just pm you. actually i wont be able to teach her as mandarin is not our MT. just wanted to now from where to source the book when she reach P4 level :love:

you know being a kiasu parent, its not easy to avoid temptation of buying books for future use :?: :please:

Ummm... you were the last one in... so are you still interested? If not, there is one more place.

For book... the publishers collate one every year. Why don't you wait and get the 2014 one when your DD is in P4? You can get from dang dang, the Chinese online book shop. There is something called Peeka too. I bought from dang dang before and got them to send to a friend in China. It seems that if you have an overseas address, they cheat you or something... I'm not the best person to ask because I ask others to shop for me. I dunno enough Chinese to shop on a PRC website.

For those who signed up, it's just an informal Mommy gathering where I guide you in the same way as I did here... http://www.petunialee.blogspot.com/2011/12/as-little-boy.html.
So, it's a relax... relax sorta thing. No stress for me. :hugs:

It is only useful if you intend to teach your child. If you outsource to tutor, then this isn't for you. I also can't read Mandarin. I speak and write French.

well, I do have a tutor for my DD as I worry I wont be able to do justice to her..

But do make her do chinese assessment books or read + write compos from compo books which I buy for her.

I print the past year question papers and make her do it, but outsource the marking to tuition teacher (home tutor)

so far my DD is doing good. her tutor who is from china says her memory is good and she can score A* if she continues the way she is doing now. Just hope my DD will do well..long time to go to PSLE

about buying the compendium of compos, it looks difficult for me to order from dangdang as I cannot read mandarin :stupid:

I would really luv to attend the parent-child session. it will give a good insight to my DD about other kids..who are also working hard towards a good PSLE score.

Pls do advise me if you can let me join the session[/quote] :rahrah: :rahrah: Ok! Let's go then!! Yours was the last name in so of course there is a place for you! Let me go sort out my schedule and organise the stuff I need you all to bring along and we're all set!!

I'll get in touch tomorrow morning k?

[mother777]

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:rahrah: :rahrah: Ok! Let's go then!! Yours was the last name in so of course there is a place for you! Let me go sort out my schedule and organise the stuff I need you all to bring along and we're all set!!

I'll get in touch tomorrow morning k?[/quote]

Thank you so much. will wait for further information from your side. Hope its a weekend event for us to join :snuggles:

[PiggyLalala]

I always bring my boys to library during school holidays. In the past few years, I could not find any interesting chinese story books for them to read. And because of that ds1 does not have the habit of reading chinese story books. In fact i have a hard time to get him to read now even though it is the school assignment. To him chinese book is always not interesting. Very sad.


But this year when we visited the lib during the holidays, I could find so many interesting chinese story books for ds2. Ds2 has read many in this holidays. I am happy. Hopefully he will have the habit of reading chinese books now. Do visit the library and start borrowing chinese storybooks.

[jedamum]

What is the number of words requirement for psle chinese compo? Thanks

[Chenonceau]

jedamum:

What is the number of words requirement for psle chinese compo? Thanks

There is a minimum of I dunno what for both English and Chinese. But if you stay with minimum word count will sure fail.

For Chinese, target 630 squares X 2 pages (inclusive punctuation).

[Chenonceau]

I have places available in my March holiday workshop for 4 parent-child pairs, teaching parents how to motivate children to memorize and recite. This workshop is NOT for me to motivate your kids, and NOT for me to teach your kids. It is to teach you how to motivate your kids.


Here are some pre-conditions (so that you will benefit):
(1) parent is literate in Chinese
(2) child is in early P4

This workshop is FREE, will be on one morning in the upcoming March holidays. Interested parties, please PM me. Previous attendants of this workshop are KSP Mommies, poohbear, mother777 and jade. PM them for their thoughts.

[Chenonceau]

A Mommy called me sometime back to ask about English Compo… and then she PM-ed me about Chinese compo session… I deleted her PM by mistake and cannot find it. I hope she reads this and PMs me again.

[ZhangLaoShi]

It is not easy for a native kid to learn Chinese in a country where English is a dominant language, or Singlish as our lingua franca in Singapore's context.


It becomes as a fashion to tweak Chinese phrases and idioms in this i-time, even our national paper cannot run away from this trend. Here it is an example from an article published on Lianhe Zaobao dated Apr 9 2012:

到海外发展的本地演员立威廉一身贵气，现实生活也终于成为“贵公子”，他日前在本地郊区砸300多万新元买了一栋洋房，成为李连杰邻居，并笑称新加坡小，很容易变邻居。他为养脚伤，暂停工作两个月回新，顺便利用这段时间搞定房事。

For those who understand proper Chinese, they know what 房事 fáng shì is. For those who are novice to Chinese language and need dictionary to assist them to read it, you will never get it correctly.

It needs a concert effort to learn Chinese in Singapore enviornment. Only relying on the class learning and studying in the school is not sufficient. So please be mindful when news reporters write and editors edit the articles going to publish on the paper.