Reading and Writing
Starting from N2 (4 years old), your child will be exposed to Chinese word recognition and reading. We take a two prong approach. Firstly, unlike English which is a phonetic language, Chinese is a pictorial language.
At ChildFirst, we make recognising Chinese characters fun so that your child can remember them. Do you recognise these two characters “炎” and “滅” , if you were shown an animation that “滅” is formed by adding “火” (fire) on top of “火” and it means extremely hot, would you remember it better? What about an animation that shows water being doused on “火” to form “滅” which means extinguish? Would you recognise “滅” next time?

Once your child recognizes Chinese words, they progress to Chinese Step Readers to help build up Chinese reading skills with confidence.