Which international school teaches Chinese as well?

fifipanda

I would like to know which international school teaches Chinese language as well.I only know CIS, ISF and IMS are offering Chinese teaching.
Please let me know if there are more!

Thanks!

HKTHK

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Basically all schools offer some form of Chinese lessons.  I think it is more a matter of how good would you like the Chinese to be.  Maybe you should ask yourself how important is Chinese to your family and what level of fluency would you like to target?

bbjasmine

Victoria Shanghai Academy does. But level quite high, compare to ISF, ESF, SIS.

chappiebb

yew chung

紅紅

All

Foufou

Int'l Christian School does

joanna1388

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YC

victoryu19

I think most of them do

jolalee

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Int'l Christian School DOES? I'm happy to hear about that.
It is one of our target school but i thought ICS doesn't teach Chinese that well, compared with CIS, SIS, CDNIS, ISF, YCIS etc.

Would you care to share more? What is their cirriculum like and the level of Chinese taught etc. thx!

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Ten minutes later:

I checked their website (thx to I Love T3 above): 35-40 minutes, 6 classes per cycle (within a 6 day-cycle, equivalent to approx 35-40 minutes a day)... Is that about the same as other IS listed above?

HKTHK

If you really care about the level of Chinese at a school, I think you will have to consider more than just the instruction time.  If I were you, I would also ask about the curriculum (text book/materials used, level vs LS), support of Chinese book reading, the use of Chinese outside of Chinese classes, playground language, ….  Curriculum is most important but you also have to consider whether the kids "enjoy" using the language.  Chinese is much tougher to learn and if the kids see it as a "second class" language, then it will always be an afterthought.

HKTHK

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Just on instruction time, CIS is 50% Chinese and ISF is 70% Chinese so it will be quite a bit more than 60 mins a day.  I am not sure about the other schools.

Peababylau

If Chinese really is of vital importance to you, you probably shouldn't be looking at international schools!   

Or you can always tutor outside of school.

Littleho

有個笑話，話說幾年前有個普通話native 小孩在本地學校上普通話堂，他每次中文讀默只得七十幾分，因為他聽吾明老師說普通話😔

HKTHK

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I think if Chinese is of vital importance, they really shouldn't be in HK!  

flczy

好好笑😄

yanyan123

Does anyone know that if Chinese classes in ISF and CDNIS are conducted in Cantonese or in Mandarin?

HKTHK

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ISF is in PTH

112200

May i share w u that in SIS, they have a quite systemictic chinese curriculum on chinese writing and reading to make sure kuds can read chinese books from  lower class. They also have chinese teachers teaching PE and leading outside classroom activities. They teach in pth. Hope this help.