Have you ever thought about this question? “My child has just started learning Chinese, how should I help my child enjoy the process while learning Chinese well?”
Here is a summary of some Chinese learning experiences and lessons that are recommended to read to accompany your child on this path of learning Chinese smoothly while providing greater support and help.
1. Lead your child to take notes during class. Prepare a notebook or a piece of paper for your child, and write down important points or questions that your child does not understand which can help your child learn.
2. Have your child speak and repeat Chinese as much as possible. Imitating the people in the video or audio and speaking Chinese together can improve Chinese pronunciation. Try to play it back as many times as possible to correct the tones.
3. Prepare Chinese picture books for your child. Picture books with colorful pictures can quickly attract your child’s interest.
4. Find some topics to test daily. There is an old saying in Chinese that “practice makes perfect”, so repeating often will definitely have a possitive effect.
1. Pointing out mistakes too many times: In the early stage of learning Chinese, children should not pay too much attention to ”correcting mistakes”, which will discourage children’s enthusiasm. Correcting too often means that parents’ attitude is not good and children may lose interest which will put yourself in the wrong position as a ”teacher” instead of a parent who learns together with the child.
2. Too anxious to see results: When children learn Chinese, it is better to insist on spending a few minutes a day reading a text for 10 minutes a day than to ask them to learn for 3 hours at a time.
3. Too much pressure: When children learn Chinese teach them to pay attention to phonetics and intonation. But do not make tough demands on them. It is not necessary for them to recite Chinese fluently so it’s not necessary to examine the results of memorization either.
If you are excited to start helping your child learn Chinese, let them get excited as well and see how it influences their attitude. Bringing joy to the experience is the most important aspect of acquiring a new skill such as language learning.
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