Play and learn. When you see your child getting excited about something she wants to learn more.
Have you seen a young child telling you the information she knows about dinosaurs, rainforest, butterflies, making cookies, or how to recycle?
Is it amazing? How does she know all that? She learns all that because it is so much fun. Learning is like playing to her.
Play and learn. Do it every day with your child.
Children are like sponges but they need to have a language-rich environment. The more interactive language input children receive the more opportunities kids have to play with the target language, Mandarin Chinese.
Parents ask about tones in the Chinese language. You can have all the tone metrics and pinyin list with an online search. But, what really helps is to have the tones embed in a playful short sentence. Parents also ask about how to get a child to understand Chinese.
How does a baby learn the native language? One word, one sentence, and one song to start with yesterday, today, and tomorrow. You say the words with joy. The kids listen. You play peekaboo and your child participates with full attention.
You only need simple Chinese words and sentences. And, you can play and learn with your child!
photo by sgrace.
