What makes your centre different from the other tuition centres?

At Molin Tutorial Centre, we make learning Chinese fun. Each class is taught in a student-centric manner using our unique teaching method. We also incorporate moral education into our classes.
We try our best to ensure that you and your child benefit as much as possible from our classes. Examples include providing a "Hanyu pinyin" course free of charge to all parents of students in K2 level, extra coaching on tackling tough exams questions and exam techniques for PSLE students, free revision lessons and free make-up lessons up to 5 times a year. At the end of every school year, we organise fun activities and excursions for our students and parents.

Why send my child for Chinese tuition?

Many children come from English-speaking homes. Learning Chinese together with other children in a fun and stimulating environment on a weekly basis makes it more interesting for your child. However, it is important for parents to follow up on this by revising the newly learnt materials during the rest of the week. This will improve your child's command of the Chinese language.
For older children, our centre prepares them for school examinations with regular assessments and mock examinations. They are also coached on exam techniques.

How do I stimulate my child's interest in the Chinese language?

Parents should not treat Chinese as a "subject" to be memorised, but rather as part of daily life. Try speaking to your child in both Chinese and English. Play games with your child in Chinese. Engage your child in Chinese culture and festivals.

How do I improve my child's Chinese language?

Learning a language is a continuous, active process; it cannot be achieved by periodic rote learning. You as a parent play an important role in helping your child master the Chinese language. You can provide an active exposure to the language. These include speaking Chinese at home, watching Chinese television programmes, listening to Chinese programmes on the radio and reading the Chinese newspapers.

My child has a problem memorizing the Chinese characters. What do you do to improve this?

Chinese characters can be more difficult to master compared to English alphabetic words.
Our centre has been making use of flash cards since 1989 to teach young children to recognise Chinese characters. Children are taught the pictorial origin of certain characters as well as the meaning of the radicals which make up a certain character.

Our centre has also designed an original Chinese radical “dice” game where specially made dices bearing Chinese radicals instead of numerals are used in fun and interactive games.
All these serve to help the children to recognise and learn Chinese characters.

I noticed that your centre employs native Chinese speakers as teachers. I am afraid that my child will have difficulties understanding them.

Our centre employs native Chinese speakers from northern China, where standard Mandarin is spoken. Our aim is to allow our students to learn from these native speakers, and not "Singaporean Chinese". Children are very adaptable and quick to learn. We find that there is generally no problem with our students understanding the teachers.