Another Challenge...

华文... Yes my another big challenge, how to teach the girls chinese, to be exact, chinese culture.

I am a oriental person, brought up in an mandarin speaking family. Spore has an unique culture, not only multi racial but the chinese also have an rich mixture of dialect groups. From the big Hokkien, Teochew, Cantonese, to small Hainanese, then sparse hokcha and fuchou... My dad is Pure Hainanese and mum is Pure Teochew and when they cross dialect and gotta married and had children, I became a Hainanese-Teochew and my hubby was Hokkien-Cantonese and then we gotta married and had children, Abella & Clarabelle become Hokkien-Cantonese-Hainanese-Teochew!

Wow!!! The best is, I cant converse in most dialect except bits & pieces of Hainanese and Teochew and only within family. Though my mum always speaks Teochew to me but I always reply in mandarin... After 30 over years of nuturing... very sad, I still dont acquired. Too bad, I am not a language person but I love mandarin, I love chinese character, every different strokes combination create a beautiful word. I can read but cant write, I can understand but cant express... Anyway I am determine to instil the rich & beautiful culture of chinese to the girls. However is not easy to find children friendly chinese book. There english book for children are more tone down to childish, children are attracted. But the chinese one are dull, bored, tough... I am really struck where to kick off : (