Which IS teaches simpiflied Chinese characters from P1?

IaMMoYY

Hi moms and dads,

My son has learned simpified Chinese characters when he went to an IS overseas.  Although he is only 5, his Chinese reading skill is strong enough for him to read Chinese chapter books now.  

I now want to enroll him to P1 in Hong Kong.  As he has already learned so many Chinese words in the simpified form, I don't perfer him learning the complex form from square one.  Which IS in Hong Kong teaches simpiflied Chinese characters from P1?

Thank you!

[ 本帖最後由 IaMMoYY 於 08-11-25 01:24 編輯 ]

tingtingting

Most IS use simplified Chinese.  For examples, ESF (except perhaps RC), CIS and Singapore IS do.

wicked

It intrigues me why most IS choose simplified Chinese vs the local system still uses traditional Chinese. I also wonder why most affluent families choose IS.

HK is the only Chinese community in the world still using a dialect, which is quite different from formal written Chinese and which is only understood by a tiny percentage of the 13billion Chinese population, to teach the Chinese language. Many high school students cannot even carry on a basic daily conversation in Putonghua after 11years of sovereignty change. Is it one of the gimmicks to brand HK being indeed specially administered? Are the people here still thinking HK can continue to enjoy its prosperity by being different and excluded from China? With Singapore as a good example for having the vision to adopt mandarin and simplified Chinese as one of the country’s official languages at a time when China was still so under-developed and so isolated from the rest of world, I just wonder what is in the minds of the hk decision makers or how their minds work. Lack of vision in the leadership could be one of the key factors why HK has been so easily outplayed by Singapore in less than 10 years.

In UK there has always been prejudice agaist cockney English accent especially when one is seeking employment. Similar prejudice was also once prevalent in HK against those with a mainland accent. But in possibly a very near future if not yet, we might see the other way round. In the mainland, there has always been negative sentiment against people speaking Putonghua with a southern especially Cantonese accent. HK will suffer from its complacency if not arrogance. Its only a matter of time.

报纸上看到的，有香港大学毕业生到深圳应职，内地的面试主管说：普通话还说不好，也好意思来。

I met a young kid who is already in P4(local school) but doesnt know how to use a dictionary! I am also surprised that some of the local schools here don't even teach phonetics for Chinese or English. I thought phonetics should be the basics in learning any language.

What hint could one read from the decision of the Education dept's decision maker to put his own kids in IS?

wicked

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[ 本帖最後由 wicked 於 08-11-29 11:56 編輯 ]