My sons go to Kumon for English and Maths. It was my other half's idea to put them into the program. I'm fine with her decision because its good for my kids and most importantly she finances it. Well, I pay other things.
They have to go for their sessions twice a week and each session is about 45 minutes to 1 hour depending on their mood. If they are in good mood, then they can quickly complete their assignments. Otherwise, I can go for a drink and they still doing their assignment. I'll manage that.
While waiting them to finish, normally I read whatever reading materials available at the center and one day I bump into this "The Chinese Saying". It's funny, so I shoot it.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
The Chinese Saying
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are you sure you want to still send your kid to learn English here?
He he he...
I like the drill they give to my kids.
After all, we are all Malaysian ma... :)
should i try? why not! Am keen to send my son to kumon during the forthcoming break. It's more towards sharpening his maths via english....quite worrying this teaching approach in his school.
I thot last time you said the teachers have been motivated. What happens then?
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Yes they are. But frankly speaking, they were not trained enough to teach in English... I found out that teaching is fine but 'explaining' is not easy for 'cikgu'. Ended-up Manglish mari ler..
aku dah try out kumon for english. improve on the vocab but not speaking and writing. so sadly to say, i'm gonna send somewhere else next year.
kumon for maths - good. tapi sincerely maths kalo cik Thian ajaq musti power giler...
what happen to our beloved ms Thian, friend?
pasai ayat ada tinggai2 geng... ni la first try aku kat blogging. mau addicted ni
Bro, 3 to 4 hours of kumon per week to master written and spoken English, is way too much to be real.
To master any language, I personally believe one has to live in the environment that one is the minority so one basically has no option but to blend in. Otherwise, it's back to square one.
I concur with jebat's view on 3-4 hours lesson, it ain't enough. And since we're not coming from english spoken family/community, it's not easy to master english both in writing and speaking.
If we rely solely on school input for our children development, forget about it. Don't be surprise if you found errata in English lessons.
Our upbringing was different from today's environment. Those days, from kampung we came, we knew very little about english. Fortunately, we had the chance to learn proper English eventhough some of us never reached a level to be the school debater.
As such, give some to our kids so that they will grow-up and become a better person. Spend times with them albeit very limited but a precious one.
To me, the important thing is I want to see my kids to have sufficient self-confidence when expressing themselves.
After all, that's how we deal with people. Be it working for people or working for yourself. Express and convince..., express and convince..., then you got the deal :-)
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