About Chinese words

[autumnbronze]

Hi kattay,


:thankyou: for sharing. This is great stuff :celebrate:

Have bookmarked your blog!!

[kattay]

Hi SAHM_TAN,


From what I know, MOE did not determine a fixed list of Chinese words a pre-schooler must learn, unlike for primary school. Each pre-school centre will determine their own list.

Personally, I think we can teach our children words relating to the following:
-Numbers
-Certain common occupations (like teacher, fireman, police etc…)
-Feelings (happy, sad, angry etc…)
-Colours
-Body parts
-Actions (jump, write, walk etc…)
-Places (park, beach, playground etc…)
-Nature/ surronding (sun, moon, day, night etc…)
-Daily activities (showering, eating, sleeping etc…)
-Family members
-Animals
-Games/ sports
-Comparisons (up/down, tall/short etc…)
-Prepositions (behind, on top etc)
-Conjunctions (and, but, or etc…)

The list of not exhaustive. You can think of some more. Some could be 认读字for the time being; don’t need to learn to write. These words often appear in story books, so by learning how to read help the children to enjoy the story better. These words are also something that are relevant to them, so it’ll help them to articulate their thoughts and reduce their frustration. And it’ll help in their oral next time.

[SAHM_TAN]

kattay:

Hi SAHM_TAN,


From what I know, MOE did not determine a fixed list of Chinese words a pre-schooler must learn, unlike for primary school. Each pre-school centre will determine their own list.

Personally, I think we can teach our children words relating to the following:
-Numbers
-Certain common occupations (like teacher, fireman, police etc...)
-Feelings (happy, sad, angry etc...)
-Colours
-Body parts
-Actions (jump, write, walk etc...)
-Places (park, beach, playground etc...)
-Nature/ surronding (sun, moon, day, night etc...)
-Daily activities (showering, eating, sleeping etc...)
-Family members
-Animals
-Games/ sports
-Comparisons (up/down, tall/short etc...)
-Prepositions (behind, on top etc)
-Conjunctions (and, but, or etc...)

The list of not exhaustive. You can think of some more. Some could be 认读字for the time being; don't need to learn to write. These words often appear in story books, so by learning how to read help the children to enjoy the story better. These words are also something that are relevant to them, so it'll help them to articulate their thoughts and reduce their frustration. And it'll help in their oral next time.

Thanks for the suggestion

[SAHM_TAN]

Hi kattay,


Do you know if there are books on the correct word to use for types of quantity for items? For example 1 xx table, 1 xx cloth, 1 xx apple, etc. TIA

[kattay]

Hi SAHM_TAN,


I think you are referring to 量词. I have this 量词词典 that I bought from Popular bookstore some years ago. It's from the Federal Publications. Not sure if they still have it.

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[SAHM_TAN]

Hi kattay,


Thank you for your help. Will check it out.

[wan2bdad]

Need some good advice.


For younger child (3 to 4 years old), should we get the kids to recognise the character or Han Yu Pin Yin 1st?

[kattay]

Hi wan2bdad,


You should teach your child the characters first. The purpose of hanyu pinyin is to help the child to "pronounce" certain words he doesn’t know so that he can continue reading a passage. It should take 2nd priority. If you teach hypy before word recognition, he will rely on hypy for reading. Furthermore, he will be learning phonics in school soon, and he may get confused between phonics and hypy.

[wan2bdad]

Thanks Kattay… excellent advice!

[patntee]

hi kattay, glad to find this thread, great sharing that you have here! Hope to give DD a good headstart in Chinese before primary school. :thankyou: