8 Advantages of Attending a Chinese Kindergarten

Posted by salah on July 27th, 2017

Is your child enrolling into kindergarten in Singapore soon and you are deciding on where to send your child to? Are you planning to send your child to the nearest preschool around your house? Before you enroll your child to the nearest kindergarten, let me first tell you the 8 advantages of sending your child to attend a Chinese kindergarten.

1) More exposure to the Chinese language

Nowadays, the results for Chinese exam are getting lower and lower as parents only focus on letting their child study English and the chances of them speak in Chinese is low as more and more families are conversing in English rather than Chinese due to the education where English is the primary language. By enrolling in a Chinese kindergarten, you are exposing him to an environment different than at home where you guys communicate in Chinese.

2) Learn Chinese faster and better

By letting your child attend a Chinese kindergarten, they are able to learn Chinese better and faster. As the child is still growing and is consistently learning, it will be easier for them to absorb all the information they had seen and heard when they are in the pre-school. This way, they are able to have a higher level of standard with Chinese compared to other students in the future.

3) Expand the job opportunities in the future

With being able to communicate fluently in both Chinese and English, your child will have a wide range of choices for jobs in the future. They are able to communicate with different countries of clients especially China clients who speak Chinese. As China is getting more developed, the chances of your child working with a Chinese client is high, therefore it is good for your child to be able to speak and communicate with the future client.

4) Fun ways to learn Chinese

As kindergarten is a place where children are able to learn and had fun, the lessons which they attend will be relevant to Chinese culture, like calligraphy class to encourage the child in writing and learning new Chinese words.

They will be able to enjoy learning Chinese while having fun, this will increase their interest in learning the Chinese language in the future when they are older. They would not dread learning Chinese as they are not used to the language or that the Chinese characters look foreign to them. 

5) A new perspective by speaking another language

By learning a new language, your child is able to see the world differently from another perspective. Research had found out that people that speak or know 2 or more languages literally see the world differently. When a child is speaking in Chinese, they are immersed in the culture and it is different compared to learning the subject Chinese when they are in the primary school where it is more academic based.

By knowing different languages, they are able to see things differently without having to go overseas and experience the life and culture of the country.

6) Improve problem-solving, multitasking and decision-making

From a young age, the child is being exposed to 2 different languages which help them to develop the ability to translate abstract concepts from one language to another language. It also helps the child to develops the skill to look at a problem in more than one way. By attending a Chinese pre-school where they start on early bilingual training, it will increase the child's ability to focus especially on mental tasks. 

7) Improve reading skills

Children that are exposed to 2 different languages are able to develop a stronger overall skill for both their primary and secondary language. By learning 2 languages, the child will be aware that they can use language as a tool and also understand the language usage.

8) Emotional benefits

 For children born into a Chinese family, attending a Chinese kindergarten will help with the emotional benefits for the child. The child would be able to get used to the class better and communicate with their teacher and classmates better. They would also be able to communicate better with relatives that speak only Chinese like their grandparents, uncles, and aunties. As most of the older generation do not have the chance to study, they would only be able to communicate using their primary language which is Chinese. By attending a Chinese pre-school, they would be able to communicate and understand what people are talking about, and this way they will not feel distance or left out from the family conversation.

To find out more about Chinese kindergarten Singapore, you can visit MindChamps Chinese Pre-school webpage to find out more information and book a centre visit for your child.