Before getting down to a Chinese composition, the student needs to learn what makes it excellent—knowing how the questions work lets you cope with them efficiently. Before we get [...]
Perhaps you’ve been trying to pick up a few tricks or tips here to make the long, tedious Chinese learning process for your primary school kid an easy one. [...]
Did you know that there is over 5,000 chengyu in the Chinese language? But it’s quite impossible for us to know all of them, and the same goes for [...]
Are you here because you need some guidance on Chinese idioms? Perhaps not for you, but for your young learners at home. No matter how strong their foundation of [...]
Often cracking your head wondering how your little ones at home can learn Chinese effortlessly and score well for their exams? Sorry, but we’d have to burst your bubble. [...]
Previously, we talked about the importance of a logical structure and strong characters to add a natural flow to primary school Chinese composition, which we hoped was helpful. In this [...]
Want to help your primary school kids write a compelling piece of Chinese composition? It's such a common misconception that students weak in Chinese skills have to be rigid in [...]
Pinyin There are a total of: 23 consonants (声母) for example, xin, yun, shang, fen 24 simple or compound vowel (韵母) e.g. gua, sheng, tou 16 syllables (音节) There [...]
I recall the lamentable moments when my students cringed at the sight of the Chinese textbook. "Huh! Not this again!" They pouted. Among other subjects, it seems that young [...]
床前明月光，疑是地上霜。 举头望明月，低头思故乡。 Is this Chinese poem familiar to you? It should be. In Singapore, Chinese students should be pretty familiar with some poems created by the legendary Li [...]
