May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Teaching your heritage language to your children is a way to celebrate your family culture and your heritage culture. For my children, Chinese is their heritage language and I am the only source of Chinese language in our family. Over the years I have noticed that more and more schools and libraries share featured resources with children, parents and educators in the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. When I lived
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Six steps for teaching Chinese to young learners! Being bilingual or multilingual has so many benefits. Research shows how easily young children can learn a different language when they are exposed to it, especially when they are immersed in it. We are in an era of raising young global citizens. Learning a language is learning a culture and it expands a child’s world. Speak Mandarin Chinese to your child if you are a native Chinese speaker. Learn
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May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month – a celebration of the culture and history of Asian-Pacific Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States. Asian Pacific American Heritage Month originated as a congressional bill in 1978 and in 1992 it was expanded from a week to a month-long celebration. This is a good time to learn something new about the diversity of Asian-Pacific cultures or to reflect on your culture with your child if you are
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Teaching Chinese Fruit Words with real fruits! This is a set of high frequency words and expressions that are often used. Enjoy the video and the activity bank! You may also enjoy Introduce Chinese to Children Through Songs. Level: novice Ages: young learners and above Key items: fruit words Teaching Chinese fruit words is a lot of fun. Kids always get so excited when I bring real fruits to the classroom. What a yummy fruit words show-and-tell!
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Chinese Through Story features Earth Day! What Earth Day activities are there for your kids to try? What can you do to protect our Earth as a family, a community, class or school? There are a lot of fun ways to celebrate Earth Day and generate ideas of how to protect our environment through discussion and a walk around a neighborhood. For example, one fourth grade class at my local school made a “water hero” statue
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Teach Chinese through pictures uses fun images and audio to introduce a carefully selected high frequency phrases and sentences that learners can use every day. See it, touch it, and say it! I designed Picture Chinese program to go with outdoor or hands-on activities. Students learn best with a combination of auditory, visual, and kinesthetic approach. You may also want to read Teach Chinese through Songs. “We found our students were completely engaged in class when they
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Teach Chinese Through Songs: Sing, Rap, Speak Chinese! Teaching Children Chinese Language with Songs and Movement. Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. -Plato Singing is a joyful way of learning and an effective way to teach languages to children of all ages. Teach Chinese through songs is a playful experience for children and adults. As I repeatedly stress the importance of setting up a target language print-rich
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Sing to Learn Chinese Sorry my Chinese is not so good by Transition Band is a featured song for the Sing to Learn Chinese series. The band members speak very good Chinese actually. They share their Chinese language journey with this fun and lovely song “Sorry my Chinese it no so good.” It is a lot of much fun to learn this song. After you are familiar or master the original lyrics you can replace some of
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Chinese Color Words Happy Easter Spring is a fun time to learn or review the Chinese color words! Have you dyed some Easter eggs? How about an Easter egg hunt? Do you know all the colors of the jelly beans? How about making colorful cupcakes or cake pops? Have a fun and sweet time learning and playing with all the color words. When we dye Easter eggs, we can say the names of each color. What colors
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This post has affiliate links, thank you for your support. Raising Bilingual Children: Be Strong and Be Joyful. We’ve all heard the adage “hindsight is 20/20.” Looking back on the early days of when we first set out on our family language-learning journey reveals to me how important it is to change things up and to remain flexible with how we approach the process. It’s sometimes easy to forget during rough patches, but I have learned that
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