Chinese Enrichment Class

Hui and Xuan is now attending their Chinese Enrichment class at one of the teaching centre. Basically, this class will teach them to recognise Chinese characters so as to help in their Chinese reading capabilities. Every lesson, they will be taught to read 32 cards, which translates to 32 x 2 = 64 Chinese characters. The first step is to know the Chinese phrase with the help of the pictures. After many repetitions, they will slowly get to recognise the characters. The next step is to get them to say the phrase by only looking at the back of the cards (only words and no picture).

These lessons are conducted evey week. After every lesson, the student is supposed to read the cards at home daily (for 7 days before the next lesson with another 32 new cards). The first few days are mainly to concentrate on reading with the help of the picture and the last few days on reading with just the words. Surprisingly, Hui and Xuan really managed to read the words (without picture) after about 4-5 days of home reading.

Today is their last lesson for the beginner class (total of 16 lessons, every 3 new lessons will be followed by a revision lesson). They love to attend the class initially because the class size is small (only 5 for their class) and is like playing sessions for them. There was once Hui was not feeling well. She still wanted to attend the class. She asked me to prepare a plastic bag for her. She said she will come to me if she felt like vomiting. See how she likes the class! 8-) But after so many lessons, their interests seem to die down. During the last few lessons, they will always ask me if the lessons were going to end. Luckily, they are still willing to attend the lessons and still enjoy them. The teacher has spoken to me before to sign them up for the next 16 lessons of advanced class in September. I am still considering because my main objective is only to give them a kick start in reading Chinese but so much in depth. I don't intend to give them so much pressure because they will gradually learn to read more as time goes. ok .. bye for now.... I need to go and pick them now because their lessons are ending in 10 mins time. By the way, we are flying back to Singapore tonight by Tigerairways and will reach Singapore tomorrow midnight at 3 plus.