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When our children start school, one of the many questions we all have is… "When will my child learn to read?" Together with this, we wonder; "How can I help them?"Being able to read is one of the most important skills children will learn during their early schooling. Needless to…
A student's mother asked me a few weeks ago to help encourage her teenage son to read more novels. Absolutely not a problem. Let me just pop over to the Middle East and sort that little kerfuffle out first though. Like acquiring social graces and caring about schoolwork, getting…
Which came first… THE CHICKEN? OR THE GOLDEN EGG? The School Placement Gauntlet by Robert Smith Returning to Hong Kong last month two issues captured my attention. Firstly there was Amy Yung's flyer on the mooted DSS school for 2016. Good news. Perhaps. But not now. This begged the question, "So…
Mandarin can be scary for the uninitiated. Kate Zhou asks how much do you really know about your child's Mandarin learning? With varying regional accents and a tonal system that renders even the pitch perfect tone-deaf, it is no surprise that many are daunted at the prospect of learning Chinese.…
