Learning Chinese (Primary/Preschool)

[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.

[ksme]

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.

My goodness. How can the ZaoBao editor even make this mistake? ZaoBao being a mainstream paper should not have such mistakes. :slapshead:

[mrswongtuition]

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!

[ZhangLaoShi]

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).

[znzyzyzx]

dont think it was a mistake, it was done with pun intended.

ksme:

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.

My goodness. How can the ZaoBao editor even make this mistake? ZaoBao being a mainstream paper should not have such mistakes. :slapshead:

[LOLMum]

i dont know how the rest of the article went.


i took it to william wanting to get hot with his girlfriend in his new house. so nothing’s wrong with the use of these words here by either the reporter or william.

i dont think the reporter or william meant the latter was gonna work on his new house.

[wayne.012373colquitt]

By daily practice.

[tricia00]

You may need an engaging teacher which will interest your child and motivate him. I know an experienced tutor. She teaches Pre-school to Secondary school students. She has been teaching for about 21 years. 13 years in mainland china and 8 in Singapore. She is patient and loves children. After my children was taught by her, they were able to attain A1 for their express chinese O paper and A stars for their PSLE chinese paper. As of what I know, many of her other students have done well for their chinese under her. She also has experience in teaching at tuition centres in Singapore If you are interested, please pm me.