verykiasu2010:Hi verykiasu2010,BigDad:
you got to start from nursery / K1 to expose the kids to chinese lang at the same time as english lang. chinese lang is not an after thought.
there are quite a number of VCDs on teaching basic chinese characters, how the words are formed...once the kids get to see that it is so interesting, it won't bore them to learn more, no effort needed, and they will remember all the basic stuff and when they go on to more complicated words, they would have already known the words in parts and how to forget ? for eg, the word for surname \"Lim\" is double wood......you need more wood to form a forest, 2 woods and 3 woods form a forest, for the chinese words....森林
one man is big : 一 +人= 大
two man for the sky : 二 + 人 = 天
small on big is sharp : 小 + 大 = 尖
etc etc etc
I am new here, am very impressed with your way of helping your children. Chinese is always a big headache for my children and I. For words that are more difficult, how do we use this method. Can I know what these Chinese VCDs are, what their titles are and where to purchase them? Thank you.
