iHuman Shizi 洪恩识字 is a wonderful Chinese literacy curriculum filled innovative graphics which has taught my children Chinese. There is a set of 130 physical picture books, with a reading pen to learn 1300 characters, which follows the app.
Category Archives: Teaching kids Chinese
Luka Hero versus Luka Reading Robot Review for Chinese book reading
Review of Luka Hero and comparison with the original Luka Reading robot. Luka Hero can read Chinese children’s books, and recognise any written Chinese characters, including handwriting. Click to learn more!
Best Chinese Levelled Reading Books
A quick comparison of five series of Chinese readers for children, to help in your journey of finding books for beginning readers. Compares Le Le, Sage, Scroll, Si Wu Kuai Du, and Pan Asia.
Review: Luka Reading Robot for Chinese
Help your child read Chinese with this Chinese reading robot. Luka Luka and Luka Hero can read thousands of picture book aloud in Chinese. Click to read more.
Sagebooks 500: Chinese Levelled Reader Review
Sagebooks taught my 2 & 4 year olds to read Chinese characters, and are either loved or hated by most. Here’s how we made a success of reading Sagebooks in our non-Chinese speaking family.
Surviving P1 Chinese for the clueless parent
Learning Chinese at primary school level as a mother tongue is not the same as in pre-school. It quickly goes from being a fun and immersive approach, into an academic structure – but there are some very simple ways which we found to help stay on top of this.
Comparison of online Chinese language classes for children
A comparison of Lingo Ace, Lingo Bus, Vivaling and Speaking Duck, for online language classes for kids.
Reading Pen Review: eTutor Education Star
The eTutor pen can read popular children’s Chinese magazines and fortnightly publications which many Singaporean primary schools subscribe to, such as 好朋友 (Hao Peng You), 知识报 (Zhi Shi Bao), 知识画报 (Zhi Shi Hua Bao), 新朋友 (New Friends), 新天地 (New World) and 新列车 (New Express), etc. For us, this was the main reason we bought the pen.
Virtual schooling through COVID
Here are our favourite online platforms for learning Chinese, English, Maths and piano.
Le Le Chinese Review: Chinese Reading Pen and Character Learning System
Le Le Chinese is a series of highly-engaging children’ books which taught my child to read 1300+ characters in a fun way! It comes with a pen which can read the individual chinese characters.