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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Raising bilingual children in Chinese There are many parents who are raising bilingual children in Chinese and English. As they are on this bilingual journey they share their own family experiences and resources with fellow parents. It takes a village to raise a child and it takes “two” villages to raise a bilingual child as some may say. It is wonderful to see the community of raising bilingual children keeps growing. I want to share four
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Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. Welcome to the HOW TO COACH GIRLS book launch blog tour & book review! I am so thrilled to share this fantastic new book with you, HOW TO COACH GIRLS by Mia Wenjen and Alison Foley. As I am teaching languages to children I have the role as a language coach who wants to keep the kids going and learning! But, how to do that in sports with the girls? HOW
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Chinese Animation Movies for Families Chinese Animation Movies for Kids Top Chinese Animation for Families Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Movie for Kids List Chinese animation films for kids is featuring 10+ Chinese animations that children and families will enjoy. This list of movies serves the purpose of exploring the Chinese language and culture. It is also a movie resource for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. It is entertainment with a meaningful and educational goal. Who likes
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18 Lunar New Year Crafts Animal and Culture Projects We have 18 Chinese New Year/ Spring Festival Crafts Animal and Culture Projects for Lunar New Year celebration to share with you! These are an amazing collection of Chinese New Year Crafts from top educational resources! Our special thanks go to each of the wonderful creators included in this post. Visit these amazing resource sites every year for their Lunar New Year updates and new resources! Here are
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Valentine’s Day: Love, Heart, Kindness, Compassion, and Empathy Valentine’s Day is a day fills with love and heart. It is time for some sweets, chocolate, and balloons. More importantly, it is also an opportunity to teach about love, heart, kindness, compassion, and empathy. Love and heart connect in the Chinese character “love ài 愛” in the traditional form. All the Chinese phrases mentioned above include a “heart xīn 心” character. This can make a good discussion topic.
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Chinese Matching Game Printables for the Winter Olympics will add some more excitement to watching the winter games! The basics you need to know about Pyeong Chang 2018: The Winter Olympics has a four-year cycle. The host country of 2018 in South Korea. The host city is PyeongChang. The dates are from February 9 to February 25. Use the Chinese Matching Game Printables for the Winter Olympics to get familiar with Chinese vocabulary for the Winter Olympics. Meet Soohorang
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Disclosure: As a book reviewer of Multicultural Children’s Book Day, I received a copy of Brandon Makes Jiǎo zi (餃子) to review. All opinions are my own. Brandon is a young boy who loves Chinese dumplings, jiăo zi 餃子|饺子. One day after school, Mom had a surprise for him in the car. He had a special visitor from China and you will see who that is in Brandon Makes Jiao Zi (餃子) . Brandon Makes Jiǎo Zi
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