學之園英文程度

Jane1983

好多家長可能自己都分吾到，香港人讀咗幾十年英文，「z」仲讀E sad。

bubuG

原帖由 Jane1983 於 14-10-16 發表
好多家長可能自己都分吾到，香港人讀咗幾十年英文，「z」仲讀E sad。

  2-sad....

victoryu19

kissobaby 發表於 14-10-16 01:41
我諗只有用家先比較清楚，係夠膽講定發音準唔準

From what I have seen, the pronunciation is average at best (as I mentioned, I heard 'shuttle bus -> SHUTTO BA', 'table -> TAE-BO', 'I know -> I LO', 'my name is -> MY LAM IS', etc).  Chinglish is everywhere too.
If you care about how many words they can learn, then you will be satisfied (they teach a lot of words and some of them are quite difficult).  If your aim is to 'provide a good English learning environment for the kids to speak well', then you could be disappointed.

HC-Mum

所以大家一直說...若期望三四年學之園可以像外國小孩一様, 那麼你和學校一定錯配了。比起很多個名有"international "字樣的「本地」幼稚園，LH已用了bilingual 來形容自己的定位了。
以一個六歳不到的孩子若能和NET溝通無礙，其實也挺不錯吧？
看過河國榮陳明恩演戲嗎？他們浸了廿年廣東話，對我來說他們的廣東話是流利極了！但你一聽還是知道他們是外國人說外語呀！
基本上你是哪處的人便一定帶何處的口音，這樣自然不過的事，為何那麼稀奇呢？

bubuG

原帖由 victoryu19 於 14-10-16 發表
本帖最後由 victoryu19 於 14-10-16 09:01 編輯

I think your comments are fair. I would say your expectation is too high for a local kindergarten, hence, resulted in your unhappy experience.

kkqueendom

我不是學之園家長,但容許我多事講句,pronunciation正唔正呢樣野,唔好推晒去學校身上,作為家長,自己都有責任去捉小朋友既發音正唔正確,我自己係唔會容許我小朋友,講: my lam is....","驚唔(game)",就算係廣東話,俾我聽到佢有懶音,我都一定要糾正佢

victoryu19

kkqueendom 發表於 14-10-16 10:05
我不是學之園家長,但容許我多事講句,pronunciation正唔正呢樣野,唔好推晒去學校身上,作為家長,自己都有責任 ...

Yes that's true.  That's why I had to correct my son's pronunciation all the time last year (his pronunciation was much better before going to LH).  
I am lucky enough to be able to speak 'close to native' English so I can correct him while speaking English at home.  But for the parents who rely on the school to teach the kids English (when you promote yourself as 'having NET teachers'), then I would say the schools should be responsible for correcting Chinglish etc too.

But to me, having accent is acceptable.  But Chinglish everywhere in school may not be a good idea (ex: no wor, take this la, etc).

Jane1983

吾係學之園fan，不過亦吾可以對學校要求太高，佢點都好過好多幼稚園，仲有好多幼稚園吾係日日有net、英文更弱。

家長都係睇餸食飯，收你小朋友，又ok近，各樣可以接受...

kkqueendom

回覆 victoryu19 的帖子

Frankly speaking, "no la","ok la",these kinds of "english" are forbbiden in my family. I also cannot accept these.

HC-Mum

'Ok la' 'no wo' 相信不是學校老師說/教吧？
若果是一羣本地小孩時的「溝通語」令小朋友退步, 不能怪學校呀.

licpd

大家講下唔同的感受都是希望學校越做越好，等大家的小朋友得益。學之園真系有好好的語景，希望學校在設計課程上不要把它浪費了

kissobaby

kkqueendom 發表於 14-10-16 10:05
我不是學之園家長,但容許我多事講句,pronunciation正唔正呢樣野,唔好推晒去學校身上,作為家長,自己都有責任 ...

agreed

kissobaby

其實都係個句啦，唔好當間幼稚園係神。比你入到國際學校有close to native 既英文程度，你又會話佢中文淺。但係如果你一路諗住讀國際學校，將來工作又唔會同中國有咩關係，咁中文淺又有咩所謂呢。


我自己做HR，我見到個大趨勢，中文識睇識寫識講好緊要。加上自己係中國人，自己既語言優勢都把握唔到，我會覺得好浪費。思前想後揀左雙語學校，知道英文不能同國際學校比，但勝在兩面都ok。


至於咩chinglish，唔好推哂個責任比學校，做父母自己要努力同配合，放學後chinglish 既語境點都強過學校net既語境。做父母既諗住比幾千蚊就可以安坐家中？你估德成僱傭咩？

PinguLinusLee

回覆 kissobaby 的帖子

無錯,我朋友正是呢班小朋友既家長們,佢哋係真實既用家,佢哋亦認為,呢間係香港幼稚園,不是國際學校,唔好似為讀完真係會變鬼仔鬼妹。好多人只有一面倒讚,講下用家分享出嚟意見俾其他父母參考,因LH確實只係香港幼稚園,全英語有NET好容易同想入讀時既幻想有落差。

咪臣

原帖由 bubuG 於 14-10-16 發表
邊間神校

自己睇！若是鍾情國際學校就免問

http://www.learninghabitat.org/web/index.php?id=26

bubuG

原帖由 咪臣 於 14-10-16 發表
自己睇！若是鍾情國際學校就免問

http://www.learninghabitat.org/web/index.php?id=26

大家對「神校」一詞有不同見解。

咪臣

原帖由 bubuG 於 14-10-16 發表
I think your comments are fair. I would say your expectation is too high for a local kindergarten, h ...

Agree!

咪臣

原帖由 victoryu19 於 14-10-16 發表
one more thing to consider.

The staff turnover rate is very high (especially the Lohas Park campus) ...

This applies to all kindergartens in HK & even DMS (Central). I did not see the teachers to resign so frequently in other branches!

victoryu19

bubuG 發表於 14-10-16 17:34
大家對「神校」一詞有不同見解。

Is 「神校」 really that important?

For me (of course it is my opinion again only), finding a way to let the kid develop at the right pace and give him the opportunity to explore and discover knowledge is more important than learning too much too early just to handle Primary school interviews.

bubuG

原帖由 victoryu19 於 14-10-16 發表
Is 「神校」 really that important?

For me (of course it is my opinion again only), finding a way to ...

If you have sufficient resources, go to an international school (has to be good one!). This is the only way you can get out of the local education system... Unfortunately I can't... I have to ask my kids to write at the age of 4 to prepare for local primary education.