Primary 2 Chinese Tuition? Really…need to start so early?
Parents, what do you think of when it comes to elementary school students?
A: maybe…a small person, carrying a schoolbag with various cartoon characters (Hello Kitty, Ultraman, Peppa Pig, SpongeBob SquarePants…) printed on it, bouncing to school every day, and coming back to eat in the afternoon After dinner and homework, I went downstairs to play;
B: Very cute, very innocent, carefree every day, when I get home from get off work, I will say “Mommy, thank you” and give me a big hug;
C: It is the stage with the least troubles, I am very happy every day, and my smile is very healing;
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That’s right, the second child is indeed like this – very cute, loves to play and laugh, lively and active, sometimes naughty…
Children’s childhood should indeed be like this.
There is a saying like this: “Happy children use their childhood to heal their lives, and unfortunate children use their lives to heal their childhood.”
I really hope that all children have a happy childhood!
……but
What I have to admit is that with the rapid development of society, people’s life pressure is also increasing. Parents, you can check it out.
There are tens of millions of college graduates every year, but what about the employment rate?
It’s freezing cold! The employment rate of undergraduates in “Double First-Class” universities in 2023 is only 13%, and that of graduate students is as low as 17%! !
May I ask if you still dare to let your children study Buddhism every day, do not make up any lessons, and have a “happy” childhood?
Some parents said: “Oh, my child is still young and only in the second grade of elementary school. The environment has been bad for the past few years. Take your time and there will always be a way out”…
Such parents are really kind people, and they are children’s “good friends”!
Unlike some parents who know how to urge their children to study all day long, and strictly control their children’s time playing computer games.
The child’s grades have declined seriously recently. He immediately contacted the teacher to inquire about the child’s current study status, tried to find out the reason for the child’s performance decline, and tried every means to solve it.
Many years later,
The children of such “some parents” have been promoted to key middle schools…
The children of these “some parents” were sent to mainland China as exchange students to study in high school because they speak Chinese fluently, and they made many good friends there…
The children of this kind of “some parents” paid attention to the Primary 2 Chinese Tuition at that time, and they were quite fluent in Mandarin, and finally received an offer from a top 500 listed company…
Such..
.Some parents also said that it is very important to train children well, but it is better to enroll children in other interest classes, such as piano, art, painting, swimming, snooker, etc.
Most college-educated adults use about 5,000 words in their daily life, work and study, and it is said that they only need about 3,500 to read China Daily.
challenge? Unlike English, where you can pronounce an unknown word using pinyin, for starters, Chinese characters give you no clues about how the word is pronounced or what it means.
To help cross that bridge, beginner books often spell out words in Pinyin, the official Roman phonetic system for Standard Chinese in mainland China, so students can learn to pronounce characters when they don’t know them.
Idioms
China’s rich history and its wealth of stories and poems has led to the frequent use of idioms in speech.
“It’s useless to study Chinese now. Just go with the school. The sub-test is only in the fifth grade. Let’s learn some other talents first.”
Parents, don’t think so! This will ruin the child!
These idioms can often be quoted in short phrases in conversation, and unless you know the idiom, it can be difficult to understand the meaning.
For example, if you say “I threw a brick” at a business meeting, it sounds like an act of hostility. In fact, it references the Chinese idiom “throwing bricks to attract jade”.
In this context, it means “I offer some clichés to start with so others can offer valuable input.” It can be a very useful idiom once you know what it means.
Listen to Mandarin as much as possible
For the first month or two, just focus on listening.
Start by focusing on listening. Just getting used to the sound. You should read whatever you’re listening to, but do so using a phonetic writing system such as pinyin to better understand what you’re hearing.
You’ll eventually have to learn the characters, but you can leave them alone and try to gain a little momentum in the language.
Language learning should be early, not late! Studies have shown that the best time to start language learning is before the age of 10.
The earlier the better, learning a language is actually a process of reshaping thinking. The older the child, the easier it is to think;
Take the time to memorize Chinese characters
Learning Chinese, Mandarin, is a long-term project.
It will expose you to the languages and cultures of over 20% of humanity and have had a major impact on world history.
For this reason, I always recommend learning Chinese characters if you are going to learn the language.
Once you decide to learn Chinese characters, study them every day. Spend half an hour to an hour every day learning Chinese characters.
Use whatever method you want, but set aside a dedicated character study time each day.
Why every day?
Since you forget the characters almost as quickly as you learn them, you need to relearn them again and again.
You might want to use Anki or some other modern computer learning system.
I developed my own spaced repetition system. I have a set of 1,000 little cardboard flashcards of the most common 1000 characters.
I have a few sheets of graph paper to practice writing these characters.
I would take a card and write the character 10 times in one column on graph paper, then write the meaning or pronunciation in a few columns.
Then I’d grab another flashcard and do the same thing.
Soon I encountered the meaning or sound of the previous character I wrote there.
Then I wrote that character a few more times, hopefully before I completely forget about it.
So let’s start Primary 2 Chinese Tuition now!
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