Teaching Chinese at Home

[radiantmum]

tamarind:

I realized that it is best not to let her read books with hanyu pinyin because she may become too dependent on it.

Ditto. I never borrow Chinese books with hanyu pinyin for mine. & I pride myself for his strong word recognition due to this

& for kids with phonics background - hanyu pinyin is a breeze to pick up.

[dimsum]

tamarind:

I am trying to get the following series of books from http://www.dangdang.com. I have never seen it before, but there are excellent reviews. My credit card cannot work with http://www.dangdang.com, still looking for ways to buy this series.


幼儿快速识字阅读法
http://product.dangdang.com/product.aspx?product_id=20645179

Hi Tamarind, for S'pore issued credit cards, dangdang only accepts citibank. This is because only citibank card offers this visa/master card secure code thing. I had ordered from dangdang before (once). Then blur like sotong me cancelled my citibank card few mths ago, forgetting that this is the only card that I can purchase from dangdang. I LOVE the wide collection of chinese books from dangdang too. Thanks for your recommendation above. Yeah, the reviews are so fantastic. Now, I am keen to get it too but too bad, I don't have citibank card now

[tamarind]

dimsum:

tamarind:

I am trying to get the following series of books from http://www.dangdang.com. I have never seen it before, but there are excellent reviews. My credit card cannot work with http://www.dangdang.com, still looking for ways to buy this series.


幼儿快速识字阅读法
http://product.dangdang.com/product.aspx?product_id=20645179

Hi Tamarind, for S'pore issued credit cards, dangdang only accepts citibank. This is because only citibank card offers this visa/master card secure code thing. I had ordered from dangdang before (once). Then blur like sotong me cancelled my citibank card few mths ago, forgetting that this is the only card that I can purchase from dangdang. I LOVE the wide collection of chinese books from dangdang too. Thanks for your recommendation above. Yeah, the reviews are so fantastic. Now, I am keen to get it too but too bad, I don't have citibank card now

Aiyah I also canceled my Citibank credit card a few years ago. OK I will apply again.

[tamarind]

radiantmum:

Ditto. I never borrow Chinese books with hanyu pinyin for mine. & I pride myself for his strong word recognition due to this

& for kids with phonics background - hanyu pinyin is a breeze to pick up.

That's right hanyu pinyin is very easy for kids who knows phonics.

In fact, kids should be trained to use hanyu pinyin only to look up words in the dictionary, not for reading entire books.

[Charmaine_chong]

Hi Dimsum,


May i know how much is the courier charge?


Hi Tamarind,

Do you know where i can look for sample pages for 四五快读? Very keen to buy. child can master up to 1000 words upon completion of the whole series.

[apple79]

HI Charmaine,


I think its 50% of the book price to ship to SG

[Charmaine_chong]

Hi K1r31,


Hey, thanks for that. A great saving. I bought RM5.50 each book from Harris JB.

Will try to get from the agent. 25% is a quite a lot of saving.

Hi apple79,

Thanks. I am very keen on this set of books too but couldn’t find sample pages.

I got to check any bp on dangdang.

Thanks

[dimsum]

Charmaine_chong:

Hi Dimsum,


May i know how much is the courier charge?

Hi Charmaine, yes apple79 is right. About 50% of the before discount book cost. It's listed on the shipping/delivery section of the website. May seem steep, but even after taking into consideration, I see many books still cheaper than buying from S'pore bookstores.

[Charmaine_chong]

Thanks dimsum.


You joint BP or buy your own?

Thanks

[tamarind]

Charmaine, dimsum,

I just tried to order from dangdang.com, I found out that they allow bank transfer.

All those books are out of stock at http://www.dangdang.com right now. These are very new books, published in June 2009, so there should be new stocks coming.

I found the books at other china websites. But the shipping is so expensive compared to dangdang.com. Shipping alone can be as much as SGD 50 for the 7 books.

I am still trying to find from other websites.

Note that I have not seen these books before, not sure how good they are. But I am keen to buy them because of the excellent reviews.