Basic guidelines when teaching Chinese to children under eight

[WINK to LEARN]

Some questions on the Wink to Learn Chinese program:

1. What is the rational of the colour coded radicals?

2. Any plan to increase interactivity of the program?

No matter how gd a dvd, putting a child long hours in the front of the TV simply flashing a few hundreds of words and pictures do not guarantee the absorption of the materials. It would be another baby-sitting program which give the parents a piece of mind cos it boasts a huge volume of educational content.

3. Rapid flashing with distorted voices

Is this issue being tackled as well?

Dear Jinjl,

Thank you very much for your helpful queries on our programs. Indeed these are worthy questions to be addressed in the forum. Please permit me to help you through with the questions one at a time.

1. What is the rational of the colour coded radicals?

WINKtoLEARN adopts multiple color-coding and fuse this helpful learning technique into her flashcards. Colors are able to help our brain to tag and remember things better. In Singapore, some reputable schools use colors to aid students in remember mathematical equations a lot faster and better.

We are mindful during the process of color-coding. For English, we use color to help children to differentiate syllables or sub-words. For Chinese, the colors are prescribed to help children in differentiating the different radicals within each word. During the process of learning, the child's mind will pick up subtlely the similiarities between words esp. in terms of radicals or different segments within each word.

Chinese is indeed a lot more complicated compared to English as it consists more than 5000 strokes. Because of this, it's not possible for us to categorize each radical using different colors. Esp. in this case, we have a certain spectrum of colors prescribed by experts for us to follow.

2. Any plan to increase interactivity of the program?

Unfortunately WINKtoLEARN's flashcard DVD programs are not meant to be baby sitting programs for parents. We always informed our parents that these DVDs are effectively like real flashcard sessions. Meaning to say, we always encourage parents to prescribe only 1-2 lessons a day for their child. For all our online orders, we also give away a free parents' guide to inform parents' about the curriculum and usage pattern. For non-Chinese speaking parents, this parents' guide is a wonderful help to them as we had translated every single word/phrase and sentence to English. This way, they would be able to be 100% sure about the entire syllabus.

Because it's a flashcard DVD program, the child will not spend more than 10 - 15 mins a day watching our programs. The critical success factor is the consistency of playing the programs. We would need parents to play each level for 1 month and hence move on to the next. There are a total of 6 levels and we had also included revision lessons within each level to help the child to have a quick revision on those words/phrases/sentences that they are learnt previously.

3. Rapid flashing with distorted voices

Our normal DVD flashcard speed is 2 second for the normal lessons. Rapid flashing lessons is only one lesson per DVD and the speed is around 1 second per flash. We encourage our parents to play the normal lessons for their child for better results. The rapid flashing is a bonus lesson per DVD for some customers who are keen about higher speed.

As the rapid flashing lessons are only a total of 6 lessons for the entire 6-DVDs, our key focus is on the 48 normal lessons for both Chinese and English. We might be putting more resources in improving on these 6 lessons.

Last but not least, we are in the midst of creating a new series of DVDs for young minds. The limelight of these DVDs is wildlife/animals. Through them, we are able to reach out to children in English and Chinese language acquisition.

For those who are interested in our new series, please feel free to register yourselves with www.WINKtoLEARN.com as members. Once the programs are launched, we will notify you immediately. Of course, there will be some benefits for online purchases as well.

With this, I wish you a wonderful weekend rest ahead!
Hazel
Customer Service

www.WINKtoLEARN.com

[GloriaD]

Dear Hazel  again Thank you for such fast reply and extended explanations to our questions!  it is a pleasure doing business with you! 

I can not wait for the songs translations as you well explained it, the translations help us (parents who do not speak the language) to make sure our kids get all the information accurately) - thanks for that.

One more time these are the features the separate you from any competition, but above anything thank you for listening and respecting your customers concerns! 

Good luck in your business !!

Respectfully

Gloria

[hafam]

Jinjl

I like the playlist and how the characters were built.  I tried to get to website www.qnt.ys168.com to buy it but the website is all in Chinese and I don't know Chinese. Do they sell the series there you know please?

thanks.

[RS Mum]

Jinjl

I like the playlist and how the characters were built.  I tried to get to website www.qnt.ys168.com to buy it but the website is all in Chinese and I don't know Chinese. Do they sell the series there you know please?

thanks.

Hi Hafam
They got a contact no for ordering. I believe is only for mainland China customers and not available internationally.
U can try using google translate the webpage but some translations may not make sense.

There is a free download section for episodes 1-8 in this website:
- the 7th folder in the main index 下载区：全脑通免费下载（1-8集)
- a trial version of the software 全脑通识字.rar 3,803KB ←点击下载 免费试用版

If i don rem wrongly, KL is based in Hong Kong and wonder if Brillkids is interested to get them as the product partner since the responses are good.
I am interested to get a set myself too.

KL, pls assist! Thks Thks!

[WINK to LEARN]

Dear Hazel  again Thank you for such fast reply and extended explanations to our questions!  it is a pleasure doing business with you! 

I can not wait for the songs translations as you well explained it, the translations help us (parents who do not speak the language) to make sure our kids get all the information accurately) - thanks for that.

One more time these are the features the separate you from any competition, but above anything thank you for listening and respecting your customers concerns! 

Good luck in your business !!

Respectfully

Gloria

Dear Gloria,

I am very happy to inform you that the translation for SING to LEARN Chinese Vol. 1 is posted in our website for your kind printout. Here is the weblink for your easy reference: http://www.winktolearn.com/all-about-wink-to-learn-dvds/free-printables/75-printables-sing-to-learn-chinese-dvds-lyrics


Have a great weekend ahead!

Cheers!
Hazel
Customer Service
www.WINKtoLEARN.com

[GloriaD]

Thanks a million Hazel - Very much appreciatted.

Question : if it is not too much to ask - will it be possible that you could consider adding the pying in the future; this is the way I can look up words in the dictionary - I am teaching my daughter chinese symbols as well as the pying.

Will start trying to figure out the pying myself for now but in the past I run into the problem that when I try to find the meaning of one character I get many many meanings (also different meaning according to the tone which we can not pick up from the symbol itself) also If I type the english word i get the same thing many possibilities depending on the context; but if I type the pying there is typically just one meaning for that combination of letters.

I believe it is very important when teaching chinese to teach the pying as well, my daughter does not seem to get confused at all and I understand it is advisable and wise to do it this way.

Thanks for the translation - it looks great. I am very gratefull for that anyway and we will appreciate very much if you could consider adding the pying as well.


Regards,

Gloria

[WINK to LEARN]

Thanks a million Hazel - Very much appreciatted.

Question : if it is not too much to ask - will it be possible that you could consider adding the pying in the future; this is the way I can look up words in the dictionary - I am teaching my daughter chinese symbols as well as the pying.

Will start trying to figure out the pying myself for now but in the past I run into the problem that when I try to find the meaning of one character I get many many meanings (also different meaning according to the tone which we can not pick up from the symbol itself) also If I type the english word i get the same thing many possibilities depending on the context; but if I type the pying there is typically just one meaning for that combination of letters.

I believe it is very important when teaching chinese to teach the pying as well, my daughter does not seem to get confused at all and I understand it is advisable and wise to do it this way.

Thanks for the translation - it looks great. I am very gratefull for that anyway and we will appreciate very much if you could consider adding the pying as well.


Regards,

Gloria

Dear Gloria,

Thank you very much for your kind suggestion. We definitely want to help more families with an easier start with learning Chinese. The pinyin translation for all the three volumes will be posted on our website by tomorrow or even earlier.

Have fun!

[GloriaD]

OMG  this is too much !!   thanks for spoinling us !!  thank you !!  thank you !!   thank you !!  thank you !!  thank you !!  thank you !!  thank you !!  thank you !!  thank you !! 

 

[WINK to LEARN]

OMG  this is too much !!   thanks for spoinling us !!  thank you !!  thank you !!   thank you !!  thank you !!  thank you !!  thank you !!  thank you !!  thank you !!  thank you !! 

 

It's indeed our pleasure to serve you, Gloria. 

Please let us know if you need any further assistance from our end in the future!

Have a beautiful week ahead!

[Baining]

This is really useful!  Thank you!    I am teaching my boys Mandarin, 6 and 8 years old.  We have been learning as a family for about 5 years and have had a lot of fun  and at times some frustration!    Thanks so much for these valuable points!
Find me at Bainings Big Chinese Challenge!  The challenge of getting something foreighn into those darling brains and getting it to stay there!
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[PY]

I don't have wink to learn chinese dvd's flashcards..I saw on youtube some few samples.I am teaching my toddler chinese. we are using LR and also Little Pim.
Can you please give me some better ideas about this two products? What is the difference between Little Pim and wink to learn besides the colour coded?
Which want you prefer and why?
I am just trying to get more ideas to keep teaching my daughter a language I don't speak..thank you

[WINK to LEARN]

Dear PY,

Thank you very much for your kind enquiry. Yes indeed, you have a very valid concern. WINKtoLEARN: Speak & Read Chinese 6-DVDs set is focused on helping your child to learn Chinese systematically in a very organized manner. The key difference of our program is that this series of DVDs are based on flashcard-learning methods.

Apart from this, we also ensure that non-Chinese speaking families and parents have a very easy time learning from our DVDs. Why is it so?

1 - All the words and phrases taught within the DVDs are clearly represented and associated to a real-life picture or video. This means that parents would have no difficulties understanding the vocabulary.

2 - For all online orders, we will include a free parents' guide. This instructional book is very important as it contains the English translation for all the words/phrases and sentence taught within the DVDs.

3 - This parents' guide also include the phonics of all the Chinese words/phrases and sentences taught. This aids parents in better pronunciation.

I hope that these information is useful to you. Lastly, we are pleased to inform you that we ship worldwide free of charge regardless of order value. This is the current online promotion ongoing till mid-Feb.

[aangeles]

Any updates as to when the traditional Chinese version will be released? I was told originally that the release date was Dec 2009 then it was pushed back to the end of January 2010. Also, will the entire 6-DVD set be available all at once or will it be one DVD at a time? I hope it will finally be released in time for me to take advantage of the free shipping promo!

[WINK to LEARN]

Any updates as to when the traditional Chinese version will be released? I was told originally that the release date was Dec 2009 then it was pushed back to the end of January 2010. Also, will the entire 6-DVD set be available all at once or will it be one DVD at a time? I hope it will finally be released in time for me to take advantage of the free shipping promo!

Dear aangeles,

Thank you so much for your kind enquiry. We apologise for the delay in our product launch. Over the past few months, the product development team had been extremely busy with the production and launch of our new animal DVD series. The full range will be made available by next week. Currently they had embarked on the final stage of the revised edition for our Speak & Read Chinese series. For sure, all the 6 DVDs will be launched together at the same time and we will notify you via email immediately.

Since you are interested in the Chinese series, please feel free to take a look at our Animal chinese DVDs. These DVDs contain both simplified and traditional Chinese. http://www.winktolearn.com/educational-dvds/wink-to-learn-animal-dvds

If there is anything else that we are able to assist, please feel free to let us know. We are here to serve you better.

[wenjonggal]

Hello Wink to Learn people! I just signed up at your site. I am confused: in the left side menu it says Free International Shipping by Air... it appears to be all the time? And then in the right menu it says that there is a Free Shipping special only until Feb 15. Is it always free shipping, or only for the next week or two? Or is the special the white tiger dvd added on top of the regular offer of free shipping?

thankyou for clarifying!

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