First Mandarin Sounds an awesome Chinese word book
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There are two versions to choose from to fit your need.
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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.
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
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A Bilingual Family Journey interview with Angela Mingjung Chen, World Language Chinese Instructor and linguist along with her daughter, Joweina Hsiao. You will hear their story from both the mother’s and the daughter’s perspectives. How does Angela keep her heritage language (Chinese) and culture alive at home? Angela shares her insight on bringing up her bilingual/multilingual children as a native Chinese speaker. Joweina, a sophomore in college gives her take on her multilingual journey growing up. You
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Disclosure: I received a copy of this cookbook to review. All opinions are my own. “Katie Chin’s Everyday Chinese Cookbook: 101 Delicious Recipes from My Mother’s Kitchen” has a delicious collection of recipes that you can prepare at home for the whole family. Many of the dishes can be made with the help of children. Before exploring all the recipes, you will learn about Chinese ingredients, basic cooking tips, essential tools and utensils then the must-know sauces
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Here are fun Halloween words and phrases for you! Let’s match the words to the pictures. Read the words/phrases on the Fun Page first. If you need some help the hints are below in English, Pinyin and Chinese characters. Print, read aloud, and have fun! Hints: pumpkin – Nán guā 南瓜 bat – Biān fú 蝙蝠 candy – Táng guǒ 糖果 witch – Wū pó 巫婆 ghost – Guǐ 鬼 Halloween Related Post & Resource: Halloween Bingo
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Theme-based learning is interactive and is designed with the children’s and students’ needs and progress in mind. The multi-directional approach in each unit engages children to have fun learning new words/phrases with easy sentences and/or short stories. Repetition and re-enforcement of new items are lead by fun activity pages. You will also enjoy Reading Circus that is included in many of the learning units. Kids love stories and they make words and phrases vivid in their imagination.
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Summer vacation is here! Let’s kick off our Summer Fun with Chinese right now. This is a fantastic time to have fun and to learn with your child. Playful learning is always the best! Summer is a season full of energy and we can be as silly as we can (well, I think I am always like that). And we can hangout outside all day long. We can grab this opportunity and follow the joyful learning plan
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A special Thank You to Miss Panda’s artist friend, Matt Cox for creating the Dragon Boat Festival coloring pages for all the readers on Miss Panda Chinese! Matt speaks English, Japanese and he has been learning Mandarin Chinese together with his daughter. Note: The following copyrighted coloring pages are for non-profit educational use only. Dragon Boat – Lóng Zhōu 龍舟 Dragon – Lóng 龍 Related post: Learning About Dragon Boat Festival Save Save
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