Learning Chinese (Primary/Preschool)
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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.
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What is the number of words requirement for psle chinese compo? Thanks
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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). -
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. -
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.
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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. -
ZhangLaoShi:
My goodness. How can the ZaoBao editor even make this mistake? ZaoBao being a mainstream paper should not have such mistakes. :slapshead: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. -
I’m not a Chinese expert - barely passed Chinese since Primary school.
However, I managed to read the above extract of the article and was laughing out loud (so loudly that my sons ran into my room to stare at me).
Everyone makes mistakes, but for national newspaper to make such mistake is really suprising! -
Hope our next generation won’t someday translate 华教-the short form of 中华教育（Chinese education） to "Chinese religion"(华人宗教).
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dont think it was a mistake, it was done with pun intended.
ksme:
My goodness. How can the ZaoBao editor even make this mistake? ZaoBao being a mainstream paper should not have such mistakes. :slapshead: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.
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