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Dear Jannalin, your idea of teaching phonics is good for reading and spelling. I only want my son to be able to speak, listen and understand at his age. Be frankly I am not interested in teaching him reading so early. I myself learn to read early and at 5 I read books and newspapers. But I donot see...

Thanks, Mad Scientist. I become Kiasu because this is our first child I totally have no experience with kids. It was said manywhere learning a language should start as young as possible. I donot want my son miss the "good time" to learn second language and turn out difficult to catch up:( Have your ...

Actually most local childcare teach kids Chinese in the morning and English in the afternoon or vice versa. You may only go half day if you prefer. Their English teachers are not as qualified as Chinese teachers to my oberservation. As most Chinese teachers are from Chinese with specific training fo...

We are a family from China with a four year old boy going to a local childcare. I find my son learned little English at the childcare as local English childcare teachers have a high turn over but poor training. His English is very limited. Neither can he speak a completed sentence nor is his pronunc...