How to attain higher Achievement Level (AL) in PSLE Chinese?
Trying all means and ways to attain higher Achievement Level (AL), especially in PSLE Chinese is always a huge topic and a great bugbear for…
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3 Habits To Start In 2023 For Your Child
New School Year, New Habits For Your Child? New textbooks? Check! New stationeries? Check! New school bag and shoes? Check! How about new habits? Habits…
Tips on Preparing For Chinese End-Of-Year Exams
Dreaded Time Of The Year As September draws to a close, October brings along the smell of dreadful Chinese exams. And for modern parents, after…
4 Things We Learnt From MOE Deputy-Director-General About Mother Tongue (Chinese, Malay, Tamil)
Recently, CNA Talking Point looks at effective learning of Mother Tongue (Chinese, Malay, Tamil). In this article summarizing the episode, Ministry of Education deputy director-general…
5 Techniques To Deliver Effective Online Classes
At the height of Covid-19 in 2020, Singapore went into circuit breaker (aka lockdown). As an adjunct polytechnic lecturer then, the first question that popped…
“Atomic Habits” To Learn Mandarin
In James Clear’s New York Times Bestseller book “Atomic Habits”, he created a paradigm for anyone hoping to achieve remarkable results through the tiniest changes.…
5 Tips To Inspire Your Kids To Learn Chinese
Sweet-talking them to say a few words or a sentence in Mandarin? Sending them for different Chinese tuition and enrichment classes? Cajoling them to pick…
Start the New Academic Year with a Picture
An Experiment To Improve To be very honest, the elder one felt more obliging than excited to collaborate in this “experiment” – to create a…
Are We Losing Our Bilingual Edge?
In Chinese, there’s a common proverb used among educators – “十年树木，百年树人”. A literal translation will mean – “It takes ten years to grow a tree,…
When Learning Chinese Becomes A Chore For The Kids
We have a problem! Our kids don’t speak Mandarin anymore! Wait, that’s not the problem. That’s the situation. The problem is our kids hate learning…
