LittlePumpkins
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How is their Chinese going? Do they like learning Chinese?
Any English speaking kids studying at local kindy
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If by Kindy you mean Kinder garden, then I have to say it is going great!!!
My daughter speaks English and German at home and English, Maderin and Cantonese at school. She understands all of the languages very well - she has been at a kindy in Hong Kong for just over 1 year now. I find the apptitude for learning languages at this age is absolutely amazing! She only has 10 minutes per day maderin class and she seems to understand it fluently - my friends who speak Cantonese say that she definitely understands Cantonese also (she does not have Cantonese lessons, she is just exposed to it from the other class in her school).
My daughter is 2 yrs 5 months.
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Sorry if I have missunderstood the post though lol
My daughter speaks English and German at home and English, Maderin and Cantonese at school. She understands all of the languages very well - she has been at a kindy in Hong Kong for just over 1 year now. I find the apptitude for learning languages at this age is absolutely amazing! She only has 10 minutes per day maderin class and she seems to understand it fluently - my friends who speak Cantonese say that she definitely understands Cantonese also (she does not have Cantonese lessons, she is just exposed to it from the other class in her school).
My daughter is 2 yrs 5 months.
xx
Sorry if I have missunderstood the post though lol
Hi Poppy,
I'm feeling better after reading your post. At home, we speak english and french. My daughter who is 2 yrs 2 months joined a local kindy last friday and I must admit I'm worried that she would feel lost. She's the only child who does not speak cantonese in her class. It's still too early for me to know if she likes it.
I stayed with her the first few days. She however started crying when it was time for me to leave her. She's been crying again this morning. I guess this is quite normal for the first week. Should you have any tips about how to help her settle down well and faster, please share with me. May I also ask the name of the kindy that your daughter is attending? Thanks!
I'm feeling better after reading your post. At home, we speak english and french. My daughter who is 2 yrs 2 months joined a local kindy last friday and I must admit I'm worried that she would feel lost. She's the only child who does not speak cantonese in her class. It's still too early for me to know if she likes it.
I stayed with her the first few days. She however started crying when it was time for me to leave her. She's been crying again this morning. I guess this is quite normal for the first week. Should you have any tips about how to help her settle down well and faster, please share with me. May I also ask the name of the kindy that your daughter is attending? Thanks!
name of kindy
My son is also english speaking and we would like to send him to a good chinese speaking local kindy. We prefer smaller classes if possible. I have been researching and finding it difficult to obtain info. as most of the info of these local kindy are in chinese. Please do PM or let me know the kindy of your choice or any that you can recommend. We live in Ho Man Tin. Thanks!
My son is also english speaking and we would like to send him to a good chinese speaking local kindy. We prefer smaller classes if possible. I have been researching and finding it difficult to obtain info. as most of the info of these local kindy are in chinese. Please do PM or let me know the kindy of your choice or any that you can recommend. We live in Ho Man Tin. Thanks!
My son is 14 mnths old and I am looking for some local Kidergartens which teaches mainly in english and is in Fanling and Sheung Shui.
I prefer to send my kid to a pre school which also teaches Chinese but the mode of communication mostly in english for normal routine.
If any body has any info please share.
I can be reached for PM at [email protected]
thanks
I prefer to send my kid to a pre school which also teaches Chinese but the mode of communication mostly in english for normal routine.
If any body has any info please share.
I can be reached for PM at [email protected]
thanks
Older son about to start chinese kindergarten
Hi,
I replied to your pm finally!
I am sending my son to a Chinese Kindy in September. It is close to us, and therefore also close to you and my husband is the only English speaking staff there so both he and Caleb should learn pretty fast. It is a Christian school and seems to have amazing facilities. It is called Graceful.
Do you have a specific school in mind? I think it's a better option than some of the sham international kindies out where we live. email me and I'll fill you in on my experiences with those.
talk soon
Sonia
Hi,
I replied to your pm finally!
I am sending my son to a Chinese Kindy in September. It is close to us, and therefore also close to you and my husband is the only English speaking staff there so both he and Caleb should learn pretty fast. It is a Christian school and seems to have amazing facilities. It is called Graceful.
Do you have a specific school in mind? I think it's a better option than some of the sham international kindies out where we live. email me and I'll fill you in on my experiences with those.
talk soon
Sonia
hi there... (this is Poppy - changed my screen name )
Actually my daughter has been through a few schools now!
We moved to Hong Kong when she was 14 months and because I was working full time (and didnt really know much about DH's etc) we put her into the only nursery we could find that would take her so young - it was Boo Boo nurseries. We loved the school, but unfortunately because it was all mandarin (a little cantonese) speaking, and this was a time that she was just learning to talk, we were haveing major difficulties at home - communicating and it was clearly having a nagative effect on out relationship (especially as we had only just moved and she was still quite raw from that). So when she was 2yrs we decided to move her to Darling Babe nursery, to an English speaking class - but they worked with a mandarin speaking class as well. Lily managed to keep her mandarin skills up very well there.
Unfortunately though, Darling babe school has close from K1 upwards so we have had to move Lily to another school!
Now that she is 3 she has been going to Woodlands summer school in Wan Chai- I have to be honest, her mandarin has gone down hill quite a lot now (we went back to the UK for 3 months, and now she only has 2 lessons of Mandarin a week), although she seems to understand it very well. As a family we have decided that it is more important for her to be fluent in German and English rather than Chinese and English - because we now do not plan to stay more than 1/3 years - and if we are perfectly honest with ourselves, it will be very difficult to keep the Chinese language going for such a young person back in Europe! But like I say, because of the almost 2 yrs she has had of Mandarin (with some cantonese) she seems to still understand it very well, even if she does not speak it! Definitely worth it! Although it is not a huge school that everyone raves on about, I would really recommend Boo Boo nurseries (Taikoo Shing) if you want to send your LO to all speaking Mandarin school - Lily (and we) loved it, and if it were not for the problems we initially had at home (which in hyndsight perhaps we should have just worked thorugh) I would have kept her there indefinitely!
We are considering sending her to the German Swiss International school now - but looking at the web site, the Debenture seems extreemly high (and a bit extreem even if it is a very good school).
Sorry for the long post! I seemed to have a lot to say LoL
Take care
Poppy
xxx
Actually my daughter has been through a few schools now!
We moved to Hong Kong when she was 14 months and because I was working full time (and didnt really know much about DH's etc) we put her into the only nursery we could find that would take her so young - it was Boo Boo nurseries. We loved the school, but unfortunately because it was all mandarin (a little cantonese) speaking, and this was a time that she was just learning to talk, we were haveing major difficulties at home - communicating and it was clearly having a nagative effect on out relationship (especially as we had only just moved and she was still quite raw from that). So when she was 2yrs we decided to move her to Darling Babe nursery, to an English speaking class - but they worked with a mandarin speaking class as well. Lily managed to keep her mandarin skills up very well there.
Unfortunately though, Darling babe school has close from K1 upwards so we have had to move Lily to another school!
Now that she is 3 she has been going to Woodlands summer school in Wan Chai- I have to be honest, her mandarin has gone down hill quite a lot now (we went back to the UK for 3 months, and now she only has 2 lessons of Mandarin a week), although she seems to understand it very well. As a family we have decided that it is more important for her to be fluent in German and English rather than Chinese and English - because we now do not plan to stay more than 1/3 years - and if we are perfectly honest with ourselves, it will be very difficult to keep the Chinese language going for such a young person back in Europe! But like I say, because of the almost 2 yrs she has had of Mandarin (with some cantonese) she seems to still understand it very well, even if she does not speak it! Definitely worth it! Although it is not a huge school that everyone raves on about, I would really recommend Boo Boo nurseries (Taikoo Shing) if you want to send your LO to all speaking Mandarin school - Lily (and we) loved it, and if it were not for the problems we initially had at home (which in hyndsight perhaps we should have just worked thorugh) I would have kept her there indefinitely!
We are considering sending her to the German Swiss International school now - but looking at the web site, the Debenture seems extreemly high (and a bit extreem even if it is a very good school).
Sorry for the long post! I seemed to have a lot to say LoL
Take care
Poppy
xxx
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