PSLE Chinese Preparation: 8 Powerful Features to help you ace PSLE
With just 3 months until the PSLE, efficient & effective revision is key. As your essential PSLE companion, VocabKing is excited to launch eight powerful features designed to help your child ace the PSLE Chinese exam. Let’s explore the 3 exciting features that we launched in June: 1. Vocab Mastery Challenge “Vocab explains […]
The Ultimate Guide to Helping Your Child Speak and Understand Chinese
Does your child dislike speaking Chinese? Does he or she struggle with reading comprehension passages or recognising words? You aren’t alone as this is extremely common for children who speak primarily English at home. As many Singaporean families can attest to, when children have limited exposure to a second language at home, they become reluctant […]
What you need to know about the NEW P1 curriculum
Students entering P1 this year will be greeted by a new MOE Chinese curriculum – 欢乐伙伴 2.0! In this post, we go through the goals of the new curriculum, what has changed (spoiler: it’s more difficult), and some tips on how to help your child excel at Chinese. Key Goals Last year, Minister of Education […]
Artificial Intelligence Can Transform the Way We Learn Chinese
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to dramatically change the way we learn, and The Straits Times ran a feature recently exploring how schools and online learning platforms are leveraging AI to help students learn more effectively in English, Mathematics and Science. How about Chinese? We have been utilising AI to teach Chinese for […]
Teacher Hong Mei’s Secrets to Chinese Exam Success: Proven Strategies for Textbook Revision
As the final-year Chinese exam and weighted assessments approach, we interviewed one of our senior teachers, Teacher Hong Mei, to share why she thinks textbook revision is one of the best ways to prepare your child for examination success, and some of her best tips. Q1: Why is textbook revision considered vital for the Chinese […]
The Final Lap: PSLE Chinese Exam Preparation Tips and Compo Guide
With less than a month to the PSLE Chinese exam, we have prepared a quick guide to help your child make the most of this critical time and boost his or her chances of success! 1. Master High-Frequency Words Time Needed: 2-3 hours in total Why: High-frequency words are essential for language comprehension and […]
7 Days to PSLE Oral – don’t miss out on these 3 key tips!
Many students get extremely nervous when faced with the PSLE oral. In this blog post, we will share three essential tips that will help you ace the oral test. So, relax, take a deep breath, and let’s get started! Many students worry a lot about the oral segment – after all, it is 25% of […]
VocabKing meets ChatGPT!
We believe that AI and education go great together, and are incredibly excited to announce our “AskAI” feature. We leverage ChatGPT to help your child learn Chinese more effectively with less frustration, via highly-personalised, teacher-like feedback. If you haven’t heard of ChatGPT, check out our previous article. To summarize, ChatGPT is a next-generation AI that […]
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 […]
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 […]
