Ni hao! Greetings from China!
I consider it all joy to be here as I watched the videos of babies who can read. It's refreshing to know that there are a lot of good and tested teaching materials and I am also grateful for providing us some free copies.
I wrote to Lappy, "I stumbled upon your website as I am searching for materials to use in my English classes. I am following a curricula given by my supervisor and I want to supplement them with good reading materials. My students can sing and speak English well
but they are having difficulties
in reading simple English words and phrases.." And this is understandable as they have their first dialect at home and a national language to learn. Most Chinese teachers believe we will just confuse them with English reading skill lessons so we are expected to just teach them Oral English.
I added, " And as I always share to my friends here, waiting for Chinese kids to reach their age 6 and 7 years old or their first grade before teaching them to read is already late . A very hard task
for children as well as for English teachers."
By the way, I am a single/unmarried/no-children-of-my-own English teacher who is staying in China and finding JOY, grace and fulfillment in my teaching job. I am having FUN and at the same time, I am the recipient of the generous warmth of Chinese kids. As I look at them learning a lot everyday, I sometimes take pity
to their ever busy parents who left them to us, teachers, the joyful
responsibility of teaching. If they only knew how smart, charming, graceful and kind their children are, I think they would even volunteer to be my assistant teacher
I hope to be always here and would love to learn more from a lot of parents and educators.
Thanks for taking your time to read this.
Soft Viktoria
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