Tranform your child’s Chinese with the 10-min routine
Do you want 2023 to be the year you transform your child’s Chinese? Start the 10-min routine, where you transform your Chinese in just 10 minutes a day. Scientifically proven. Sounds too good to be true? I personally tried it in 2022 and saw tremendous improvements, and in this post, we show how your child […]
A year in review: reading
Building a reading habit is by far the best way to improve in Chinese. Empirically speaking, students who have regularly read Chinese stories do significantly better and enjoy the language more. The problem is how? Especially for students who currently dislike Chinese. That’s when I decided to set myself a reading challenge. You see, I […]
SmartHelp – the better way to overcome mistakes
A common way parents try to help their child in Chinese is to buy them tons of assessment books and ten-year series. But is this the best way to help your child? In this post, we explore the shortcomings of assessment books and how to fix them. Also, if you haven’t already seen it, we […]
Feature on Talking Point
We are honoured to be featured on this week’s Talking Point – “Mother Tongue: How Can We Get It Right”, where we discussed how parents can motivate their kids to learn and revise the language. If you would like to watch it, there will be a replay on 21 Aug (Sunday), 11pm on CNA. The […]
PSLE oral tips
With just a few days until the PSLE Oral exams, and here are some last minute tips to ace the upcoming exams. Know what you are being assessed on The oral exam comprises 2 sections- Reading Aloud or 朗读篇章(10%) and Conversation or 会话 (15%). You will be given 10 minutes to practise the passage and to […]
The one Chinese exercise your child doesn’t do (but should)
How does the average student revise Chinese? The typical way is to go through the vocab handbook (词语手册), and revise the pronunciations, meanings and how to write the keywords. If there is time, maybe read the example sentences. But there’s one exercise that students should do but most don’t. 词语搭配 or Vocabulary Extension. I know […]
Three tips to get your child reading Chinese
The most common question I get from parents is “How can I help my child stop hating Chinese?”. I know what your child is going through. I grew up in an English speaking family, and I hated my 12 years of learning Chinese. And I’m not alone: many of my peers hated learning Chinese. Funnily, […]
How to encourage children to read Chinese (Interview)
As parents, we all know how important reading is to doing well in Chinese. The question is: how do I encourage our children to actually read. In this post, we interview 林老师, a Chinese teacher whose daughter Jane* is currently in a top SAP secondary school and is able to read Chinese novels like 活着 […]
Why is setting academic goals useless?
Have you ever made a New Year’s Resolution to exercise more, to study harder, to spend less time on games… only to stop doing it a month later? I definitely have. And I’ve seen many students aim to do better at Chinese (and other subjects), but eventually fall short. In this blog post, we explore […]
Chinese Comprehension Deep-Dive (Upper Primary)
阅读理解 or Chinese comprehension is the minefield where many exam marks are lost. We previously did a case-study of a lower primary comprehension; today we will be analysing an upper primary Chinese comprehension passage and examine common mistakes students make. REFRESHER ON COMPREHENSION GRADING Students can get a maximum score of 200 for PSLE Chinese, […]
