Today the Chinese tutor dropped a bombshell.  She announced that she is leaving Singapore in 4 days time because her daughter is leaving then to further her studies in UK.  Her own visa will expire the moment the daughter leaves Singapore so she can’t stay to help Rachel through her PSLE. We were shocked & [...]

My daughter is one of the students in Singapore struggling with the Chinese language in school. Coming from a mainly English speaking environment with little exposure to Chinese, she finds it discouraging to master this language. I came from a Chinese speaking environment and attended Chinese school where English language is the only subject taught [...]