What Are You Grateful For?

What Are You Grateful For? What are you grateful for?  This holiday season is likely to be different from the previous years due to the pandemic.  As I am sitting here in quarantine. In solitary for the past several days upon arrival in Taiwan. I am grateful for the food and grocery delivery app and its service that brings the daily delight of street food, fresh fruit, and bubble tea drinks to the door. At the same

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Getting Started

Getting Started | Miss Panda Chinese

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. -Zig Ziglar Alice is amazing.  She does not speak Mandarin neither does her husband.  But, her boy does.  Actually this college freshman  recently has decided to minor in Chinese. How did Alice manage to get it started for her boy? When she decided a few years ago that her boy should learn some Chinese she just started. Yes, that was really

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Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2019

Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2019 | Miss Panda Chinese

Welcome to our 6th annual Multicultural Children’s Book Day! MCBD’s mission is to raise awareness for the kid’s books that celebrate diversity, and to ship more of these books to classrooms and libraries.  Miss Panda Chinese is honored to co-host the 6th Annual Multicultural Children’s Book Day. Welcome to our 6th annual Multicultural Children’s Book Day! Here’s how to celebrate: Link up your diversity book reviews HERE. Join us tonight at our 6th annual Twitter Party! Follow @McChildsBookDay to

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Summer Reading Program for Kids-Chinese Reading Playground

Summer Reading Program | Miss Panda Chinese

Miss Panda’s Chinese Reading Playground Summer Reading Program 2018 for Kids is now OPEN for registration!  Summer is here!  What an exciting time to play, to enjoy and to read all the books that you want to read and to share with your children! “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”   -Walt Disney We want kids to feel the fun and the joy of reading!  Every child is

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How to Coach Girls – Keeping It Fun and Keeping Our Girls In the Game

How to Coach Girls book launch blog tour | Miss Panda Chinese

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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Using the Amazon Echo to Listen to Chinese Songs, Radio, and MORE! -Chinese Toolbox

Using Amazon Echo to Listen to Chinese songs and Chinese radio | Miss Panda Chinese

Chinese toolbox is featuring smart speaker, Amazon Echo!  Have you tried to ask Alexa to tell you how to say a word in Chinese yet? If you have an Amazon Echo you can try it now.  Ask: “Alexa,  How do you say Hello in Chinese?” We have tried Chinese, Spanish, French, German, and Russian so far.  Kids think it is a lot of fun! I also want to share with you how to use the Amazon Echo

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Kids Summer Chinese Reading Program

We are so excited to kick off this year’s Summer Chinese Reading Program! (2017 program has closed. Thank you for your participation) The mission of this challenge is to keep our bilingual children reading in Chinese, having fun in Chinese, and learning more about the Chinese language, Chinese culture, and the world during the summer. We have picked awesome books for your to start with.  We are looking forward to having your and your child’s book recommendations. 

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“Miao Mi” App Helps Children Learn Mandarin Chinese at Home and On The Go

Disclaimer: This post was sponsored by App Masters for “Miao Mi” APP.  All opinions are my own. It is difficult for parents in North America to find quality Chinese language learning resources for their kids,” said Todd Miller, CEO of Celestial Tiger Entertainment, a leading media company in Asia that creates and operates popular channels focusing on Asian entertainment, including “Miao Mi.” “We created Miao Mi to give parents a wide range of entertaining and educational programs

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Chinese Culture for Kids: Lion Dance and Dragon Dance

Year of the Rooster

 Picture Chinese Series:  Chinese New Year Special     The Chinese New Year celebration is a 15-day festivity.  With all the Spring Festival cultural events going on around the world this is a great time to locate one and to experience the celebration in person in your area.  If there is nothing similar locally you can join me to see what it is like.  I got a chance to visit Chinatown in Washington DC.  The year of

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