Ednoland Chinese programme adopts and promotes the "Recognise First, Write Later" approach to learning Chinese. This approach was officially introduced by the Ministry of Education into the Primary School in 2008. It was implemented to help children improve their ability to learn to recognise Chinese words rapidly and effectively.

Unlike English (a phonetic language), Chinese is a pictorial language. As such, words are related pictorially. One of the new and effective methods of rapid word recognition is to introduce Chinese words by families of related shapes and roots. Instead of learning discrete words one at a time, children learn families of words as a group. This method is commonly known as the "Concentrated Word Recognition" method. The learning of these groups of words are further enhanced and made more interesting via the use of "Rhymes and Stories". Each family of words is knitted together via a short story told in the form of rhymes to help children remember the words better and faster. Our Chinese rapid word-recognition module is designed based on the above method.

With this method, it is possible for children to recognise up to a few thousand words even in pre-school. Together with the high frequency words to be introduced, children can proceed to reading real texts and books at a much younger age. With improved Chinese reading skills, children's interest, self-esteem, and use of the language becomes greater.

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Our Ednoland Chinese Rapid Word-Recognition programme is developed in consultation with Dr. Chua Chee Lay from the National Institute of Education, who is the editor of Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's book "Keeping My Mandarin Alive".

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