A Summary of Primary School Chinese Learning Key Points
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 are 4 tones (声调) in Chinese mā, má, mǎ, mà A [...]
Learning Chinese Is Not As Hard As You Think. Here’s What Your Kid Can Do To Learn It Effortlessly.
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 students are prejudiced against this particular language. Almost none of the [...]
4 Famous Classic Poems That Are Perfect For Primary School Chinese Compositions
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 Bai (李白), aside from San Zi Jing (三字经) and Di Zi [...]
How To Teach Kids Chinese If Your Chinese Isn’t Good
A survey in 2016 shows that English is the most common home language in Singapore. If you’re like 36.9% of Singapore residents who uses English most often at home, it could be hard to teach your kids Chinese at your [...]
Real Pro Tips to Gain More Marks for Chinese Reading Comprehension
As educators, we’ve seen a lot of fluffy studying tips for Chinese reading comprehension out there. Many of these tips are either too ubiquitous, or they lack certain validity. We’ve written about how to improve Chinese comprehension previously, but we [...]
Forming Grammatically Correct Sentences in Chinese (Part 2)
Forming sentences. Many students hate them; some love them, but all of them want to make the best of them. But how exactly can your kids do that? Building sentences is a notoriously difficult task for students, especially when they’re [...]
Forming Grammatically Correct Sentences in Chinese (Part 1)
Read your kid’s writing and can’t put your finger on what doesn’t seem right? It could be a case of sentence structure gone wrong. When sentence structure gets out of whack, the messages that they’d like to communicate may be [...]
10 Minutes Per Day—How To Improve Chinese Composition
Here we go again: finding the perfect technique to combat the age-old quest on how to better your kid’s Chinese composition writing skills. Instead of talking about technique, we talk about the other component that contributes to the improvement of [...]
Primary School Chinese Learning Milestones: Chinese Skills to Expect at Different Stages
Children develop at their own rate. But during their primary school, they’re expected to meet certain milestones. Think about all little breakthroughs your child made during his or her primary school years, from using complex terms to constructing a [...]