Learning Chinese

His enthusiasm to work on our Chinese homeschooling activities really pleases me a lot. 

Compared to a few months ago, his oral and listening skills in Mandarin has improved significantly. 

I am slowly increasing our daily time spent on all areas - word recognition, oral, listening, reading and writing. Very little focus on writing though as I firmly believe it is not an important aspect just yet.

Now he can understand a lot of instructions in Mandarin and is confident enough to converse with me in full sentences on everyday topics. He is also beginning to read simple Chinese books on his own, without the help of pinyin.

In fact, he has been asking me to stop sending him to his once-a-week Chinese class conducted by his school. Instead, he wants to learn Chinese with me at home.

He has been attending the additional class conducted by his school for 1.5 term now. He tells me every week to just send him the bento and pick him up before lesson begins. He likes the lunchbox I prepared and enjoys eating with friends, but just hates the lesson. I am really not too sure why he dislikes it so much. Perhaps he finds the format of teaching boring. 

After much deliberation, we decided to withdraw him from that class when he finishes this term. After all, I think his recent progress has a lot to do with the work we did at home. Not so much from the little time spent in that Chinese class.

I am so looking forward to seeing him improve by leaps and bounds this year. 

Even little Chip is now picking up little bits and pieces and some days, the 2yo runs to me excitedly 'Mama, I want to do Chinese!!'.  Heehee...