First Mandarin Sounds an awesome Chinese word book

Big News!

A debut children’s picture word book by Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett “Miss Panda” is now available worldwide!

There are two versions to choose from to fit your need.

Traditional Chinese. Pinyin, English edition

Simplified Chinese. Pinyin. English edition

Keep reading…there is also BONUS material.

The first step to early Mandarin Chinese literacy is learning the first words and sounds.

“First Mandarin Sounds” provides children, parents, and educators with a fun introduction to each of the thirty-seven essential sounds of the Mandarin Chinese language. Using playful words and basic sounds.

With vibrant illustrations, a “look & find” design, and complimentary audio support, “First Mandarin Sounds” helps readers connect the right Mandarin sounds with some of the most commonly-used Chinese words. This is a tool for parents to guide children to learn how to pronounce Mandarin words in Pinyin spelling accurately.

You can order from Amazon by clicking here. Traditional version. Simplified version.

Does Pinyin, the romanized Chinese words sound like the English alphabet? Not really. This picture word book shows you what the essential Pinyin spellings sound like in Mandarin with meaningful Chinese words that are relevant to your child’s daily life.

This children’s picture book is written in Chinese characters, Pinyin and English. Both Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese versions are available.

To further support the learning, There is bonus material of complimentary audio and playsheets for adult readers to guide children in learning the sounds and featured Chinese words in the book.

Read, play and learn! Let’s always keep learning fun.

First Mandarin Sounds is a totally amazing beginner’s guide to pronunciation in Mandarin Chinese. It ticks all of my boxes for a great resource for my homeschooling, non-native speaking, learns as you go, Mandarin classes as Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett, in her own unique way brings words and learning to life. I think kids of all ages would be helped with their Mandarin Lessons from this book, and love it! The illustrations are engaging and fun! If you are adding one new resource for your beginning Mandarin journey, for any age, this is the one I would suggest! –Jaye, goodreads

Miss Panda Chinese Joy of Learning for Everyone!

The Best Story

By Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett on / Bilingual Parenting, Teaching Chinese to Children

The best story is the one that your child wants you to tell again and again. One of my best stories is about a close encounter with a wildlife llama. That few seconds were almost like a Jurrasic Park experience. Not with dinosaurs. But with a curious llama. All the people in the car didn’t think this cute creature would keep following us and getting closer and closer to the car. I am sure you also have

Counting Jellybeans Colors Numbers and Play

By Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett on / Bilingual Parenting, Teaching Chinese to Children

Counting jellybeans | Miss Panda Chinese

Counting jellybeans is a lot of fun for Jay. He first sort out the colors. Then he talks about the favors. He likes fruit so he keeps all the fruit flavored jellybeans on one side. When his brother joins him Jay starts counting： one jellybean 一個糖豆 yí gè táng dòu 一个糖豆, two jellybeans 兩個糖豆 liǎng gè táng dòu… His little brother corrects him: two is 二 èr. Jay repeats, two jellybeans 兩個糖豆 liǎng gè táng dòu, and

Time to Say Good Night

By Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett on / Bilingual Parenting, Teaching Chinese to Children

Good Night I Love You teach kids chinese BLOG Miss Panda Chinese

Time to say good night! Good night 晚安 wǎn ān！ Maria sings Dear Sweetheart lullaby to her daughter every night. Her little girl was hiding behind her and smiling. Dear Sweetheart is a song I wrote for my daughter when she was just a tiny new born baby. When we went home with her this song became a bed time routine. Bed time routine is a good way to wrap up the day with the little ones.

Who Got Poked

By Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett on / Bilingual Parenting, Teaching Chinese to Children

Who got poked? “Did you feel that?” “Me, too!” “What was that?” There was some screaming. At the same time, there was some laughter. A trip to the aquarium sitting in the 4D theater watching the dolphin movie was quite interesting. The ocean, the playful dolphins, then there was an appearance of a shark on the screen. As the shark swimming toward the audience and opening its mouth it came along a light poke from the back

Fire! Fire!

By Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett on / Bilingual Parenting, Teaching Chinese to Children

Fire! Fire! The news was on. The heavy smoke. The beautiful historic buildings. The people who were watching. The emotions. Fire! There was a big fire. When I asked my students if there was anything big happened. One of the students told me there was something big happened at home. It was a big event. There was a roasted turkey and a big party with family and friends. It was a celebration. He did a good job

Slow Process and Fine Work

By Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett on / Bilingual Parenting, Teaching Chinese to Children

slow process and find work | Miss Panda Chinese

Slow process results in fine work is a Chinese saying. The original expression in Chinese is 慢工出細活 màn gōng chū xì huó 慢工出细活 literally means slow work produces fine products. I was finishing up a class with first graders and I started singing the Goodbye song. That was probably the 68th time they heard me singing it. I stopped two sentences in, they looked at me and thought maybe I forgot the lyrics so the kids continued

Long Long Time Ago…

By Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett on / Bilingual Parenting

“Long long time ago…” is the beginning of a story. It is a signal to kids. “Hi, It’s time for a book or a story.” They are inviting words. Hěnjiǔ hěnjiǔ yǐqián 很久很久以前 is Long Long Time Ago in Chinese. It is a universal way to begin a story. “It is story time! Are you ready? Long long time ago, …” as soon as I said it, kids started to giggle and they repeated “long

Be Like Water

By Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett on / Bilingual Parenting, Teaching Chinese to Children

Be like water Be like water. It is a Chinese saying 滴水穿石 “dī shuǐ chuān shí.” It literally means dripping water penetrates the stone. Four simple words with a powerful message. It is persistent and it is perseverance. Drip, drip, drip. Little by little. Remember when your child spoke her first word? It usually takes about a year for us to hear our babies’ first word. Remember the excitement? First word! Then, one word after another. One

Start and Bond with Your Child

By Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett on / Bilingual Parenting

Start and Bond with Your Child Today is a good time to look at what you have worked on for the past several days, in the previous weeks or months. Then, have a simple plan for the remaining of the week or for next week. What do you want to add to your child’s Chinese language learning? Do you want to add more Chinese children’s songs, craft activities, or simple Chinese stories to the daily Chinese routine?

Lantern Festival Paper Cutting Lanterns Culture Craft

By Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett on / Chinese culture for kids, Chinese Teaching Resrouces

Lantern Festival | Paper Cutting | Miss Panda Chinese

Lantern Festival Paper Cutting Lantern Culture Craft! Culture craft helps children engage in hands-on creation. There are the “what” and the “why” questions popping out when they work on craft projects like paper cutting. Curiosity leads to exploration and learning! We are looking at Lantern Festival paper cutting lanterns culture craft, and this is a project that kids really enjoy. They can even come up with their design with the English alphabet and other languages. Taipei Confucius