Hey MIP1999,

Yes, they look difficult.

Refer to this thread:

http://forum.brillkids.com/little-reader-library-downloads-(foreign)/thousand-chinese-character-classic-part14/?topicseen

By the way, here is the Thousand Chinese Character Classic Part25 meanings in Chinese:

杜稿钟隶　漆书壁经： 书殿中有杜度的草书、钟繇的隶书，还有漆写的古籍和孔壁中的经典。

府罗将相　路侠槐卿： 宫廷内将想依次排成两列，宫廷外大夫公卿夹道站立。

户封八县　家给千兵： 他们每户有八县之广的封地，配备成千以上的士兵。

Dear wenjonggal,

FYI, Singapore is using simplied Chinese. 

Dear divaseven,

Greatest advantage of using simplied Chinese, you can communicate with Mainland China of estimated population of 1,330,044,544. 

Some information on Chinese written language and the countries of use:

Simplified Chinese: Mainland China, Singapore, Malaysia

Traditional Chinese: Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Overseas Chinese Communities

Simplified Chinese Characters - General Information
Simplified Chinese Characters are one of two standard sets of Chinese characters of the contemporary Chinese written language. They are based mostly on popular cursive (caoshu) forms embodying graphic or phonetic simplifications of the "traditional" forms that were used in printed text for over a thousand years. The government of the People's Republic of China has promoted them for use in printing in an attempt to increase literacy. They are officially used in the People's Republic of China or Mainland China, Singapore, Malaysia, and the United Nations.

Traditional Chinese Characters - General Information
Traditional Chinese is currently used in the Republic of China (Taiwan), Hong Kong and Macau. Overseas Chinese communities generally use traditional characters, but simplified characters are often used among mainland Chinese immigrants.

Cheers!

[Chinese is a pictorial language, not a phonetic one.]

Dear Gloria,

Most welcome!

Why learn Hanyu Pinyin?

Hanyu Pinyin (漢語拼音), often abbreviated as Pinyin (拼音; "spelling sounds" literally), is the most widely used Mandarin romanization system: P. R. China and Singapore, and many other countries as well. The Library of Congress uses Pinyin to catalog its collection in Chinese, most contemporary dictionaries use Pinyin to spell out Chinese characters, and the vast majority of Chinese textbooks published overseas use Pinyin, to name just a few.
 
In my opinion, it is the best that your child is able to read/recognise Chinese characters without the pinyin.

Chinese is a pictorial language, not a phonetic one.

Hence, it is best to start early for the child to recognise and able to read Chinese characters as they are pictorial.
Hanyu Pinyin can be learnt later and it is 'phonetic' and if you want to start with your child start from basic.

Here is a web link to pinyin rules and some lessons using flash:

http://www.chinese-learner.com/chinese-pinyin/learn-chinese-pinyin-rules.php

Here is a web link to pinyin pronunciation:

http://www.echineselearning.com/resources/speak-chinese/index.html

Cheers,
iyph

Good idea and they are working fine for me. Thank you for your contribution.

Thank you.

I will put up some more if I have any better ideas.

I am considering The Glenn Doman® Picture Dictionary CD-ROMs set. But it is very costly, S$760 available in Singapore, which is about US$500 for 10 volume. Let me know the price in other country if you know and whether this is worth buying. Thank you!

Dear Joan,

Thank you for your comment. My child is 19 months old and we are Singaporean Chinese. I agree with you that it might be difficult to explain the meaning at this stage to a younger kid. So why do I bother to flash these Chinese characters to my kid is because I want to fully utilising his photographic memory now by expecting him to remember all these difficult Chinese characters at this young stage. He might not even want to look at them when he is much older. As Chinese Mandarin is our second language (for Singaporean Chinese), I see the importance of exposing him to more difficult Chinese character now than later. I personally think every Chinese character being flashed to him at this stage, he will capture it like a camera and remember its pronunication.

Result:

When I printed out sets of these 4-characters and asked him which is which of two options, he could recognise them by pointing. (I do not expect him to pronouce them now). Which means he can recognise eight verbs already with the following example:

Explanation can come later when he is older.

For example,  the meaning for 海咸河淡　鳞潜羽翔：

海水咸，河水淡；鱼儿在水中潜游，鸟儿在空中飞翔

海咸 means the sea water is salty
河淡 means the river water is bland
鳞潜 means the fish are diving and swiming in the water
羽翔 means the birds are flying circular in the sky

Every Chinese character has a meaning and can be formed in other phrases, for example:

海 means sea
咸 means salty
河 means river
淡 means bland
鳞 means scales (also representing fish)
潜 means diving
羽 means feather (also representing birds)
翔 means flying

I am not very good and professional with my Chinese language, hence I want my next generation to be able to communicate and associate with the billions people in China.

I totally agree with you Chinese poems are easier and beautiful and I like them too and want my children to learn them. Anything that is easier should be incorporate later as it is easier to learn. If possible, I want my kids to learn Tamil, Greek, French, etc. which I know zero of it. ha ha ha....

You might not agree with me but I believe any form of good teaching, may it be easy or tough, it is good to start early with love and not by force. Every individual has his/her style and method. Cheers!

Hey GloriaD,

Joan has some Chinese poems for download, take a look:

http://forum.brillkids.com/downloads/?sa=view;id=3434
http://forum.brillkids.com/downloads/?sa=view;id=2654

These I like too. Cheers!

Regards,
Ambitious mommy

Your baby’s right brain photographic memory can quickly, easily and automatically learn anything that you can present to them with its own unique right brain method.

Play this game with your child using the LR.

Instructions:

1) LR setting - > Deselect "Auto Forward"

2) LR setting - > Select Order "According to List"

3) Show the first picture for 5 seconds and ask your child to remember what he has seen.

4) Show the second picture (two similar pictures) and ask your child to point to the picture which he has seen just now.

5) For mum and dad, the answer is stated in the filename as it is difficult for us to know the answer at our age..haha..but our little ones can do it.

SO TRY IT! Enjoy!

The Thousand Character Classic (千字文) is a Chinese poem used as a primer for teaching Chinese characters to children. It contains exactly one thousand unique characters. It is said that Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty (r. 502-549) made 周興嗣 (Chow Hing-Ji) compose this poem for his prince to practice calligraphy. The original title of the poem was 《次韻王羲之書千字》 and it is sung in the same way in which children learning Latin alphabet writing do with the "alphabet song".

The Thousand Character Classic is composed of 250 phrases of 4 characters each from "天地玄黃" (jyutping: tin1 dei6 jyun4 wong4, pinyin: tiān dì xuán huáng) to "焉哉乎也" (jyutping: yin1 zoi1 fu1 jaa5, pinyin: yān zāi hū yě). It was selected among the calligraphies of 王羲之 (Wang Xizhi), one of the finest calligraphers in China, and composed by Zhou Xingsi, who lived from 470 to 521 in the Liang country in the Southern Dynasty period.

I am creating the series of Thousand Character Classic (千字文) in simplied Mandarin Chinese with pronunciations. My intention is to enable my children and others to learn these thousand characters during their prime initial years with the assistance of LR software.

Enjoy!
http://forum.brillkids.com/profile/?u=1216

I am wondering how many of you bank your newborn's cord blood and is it common in your home country? I think US is the lead country in stem cell research and recently, US President Mr Obama has reversed limits on stem-cell research.

Personally, I think this is a "biological" insurance that can be bought and done only at a moment of time, which is during the child delivery, the cord blood is extracted for storage.

If decision was not made then and there, it could not be done. Therefore I have banked my first child's cord blood and will be doing the same for my coming second child.

well, the milk sign too at 6th month.

Here is a good site:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/

My boy likes it all along for more than a year.

Enjoy!

Hey Gloria,

These Chinese characters are in simplified Mandarin Chinese. 
This series will consist of 1000 thousand Chinese characters in total.

Sorry for the overlooking, not considering for the non-speakers.

Cheers!

Dear Admin,

Just FYI. There is a spelling error, "unpproved" in the  "MY FILES" section.
Attached file for your reference.

Cheers
iyph28

Skin color does not matter, health matters! As long as she is healthy and fit, why do you want to do the unnecessary?