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    4yo interested in spelling in English while trying to teach him Chinese

    @cb_isme Awesome, and that's very impressive! I'm also not a native speaker. My reading is pretty good, but I do occasionally rely on Zhuyin (which thankfully most of our children's books have). We have one book that my daughter loves (骨頭--fantastic book) that has black text on a dark blue...
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    4yo interested in spelling in English while trying to teach him Chinese

    @aldredian Well, we're really only just starting with Zhuyin, our LO doesn't really 'get it' with the symbols yet, although she recognizes and can repeat about 2/3s of them if I point to one. We've got a few books that have each symbol, with stroke order, and words/pictures that correlate to the...
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    4yo interested in spelling in English while trying to teach him Chinese

    @cb_isme We're starting with a combination of 'sight reading' and bo po mo 'spelling' (LO is 3.5 yr old). For sight reading, when you are reading a book, isolate one simple character in the text for your LO to read, while you read the rest. Everytime that character shows up in the text, pause...
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    4yo interested in spelling in English while trying to teach him Chinese

    @aldredian Yes! to Zhuyin. Especially if your friends/family use it, and if you go to Taiwan periodically.
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