<imageanchor=”1″ style=”clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em”> Check out my featured Chinese character: 月 (yuè) – This is a picture word, which means “moon” or “month.” We can use 月 (yuè) in the following ways: Moon (used when referring to the phases of the moon and its brightness): Yuè liàng – 月亮 Moon (used when referencing the moon as a heavenly body as in “astronauts visited the moon”): Yuè qiú – 月球 Moon cake: Yuè bǐng – 月餅 Month
Read more →This is fun. Check out Hugh Jackman (X-Men) singing in Mandarin Chinese! Title of the song is “Give me a kiss” – Gěi wǒ yī gè wěn 給我一個吻. Useful phrases to know: OK – Kě yǐ – 可以 Not OK – Bù kě yǐ – 不可以
Read more →Reading together makes learning a language and its culture fun! I like to share my own stories with my children when we read stories related to Chinese culture or life in Mainland China or in Taiwan. Recently my daughter, Meimei, was asked to help out a Chinese girl who does not speak very much English in a weekend art class. Meimei told me that the girl was able to work on her Valentine’s day art project because
Read more →2012 is the “Year of the Dragon” and the dragon represents the most auspicious of all the 12 animal birth signs in Chinese and many other Asian cultures!! To celebrate Chinese New Year and kick off the Year of the Dragon with fun and excitement Miss Panda Chinese is delighted to announce a giveaway with “World Music With DARIA.” We are giving away of a copy of the “Eyewitness: Ancient China” book written by Arthur Cotterel
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Read more →<imageanchor=”1″ style=”clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em”> The best way to learn is to see, to hear, to feel, to touch, and to taste. This definitely applies to learning a language and its culture. Do you know I still remember my very first bite of the authentic McDonald’s Big Mac in L.A. when I visited the U.S. the very first time many many years ago? It might sound silly but it was quite an experience after hearing about the
Read more →Let’s get ready for the Chinese New Year! This year is the year of the DRAGON and the Chinese New Year is on January 23rd. Dragon year only comes once every twelve years so it is very special. Dragon means power, wealth, and good fortune for Chinese. Do you know the ancient Chinese emperors wore lóng páo 龍袍, Dragon robe? Chinese New Year is my favorite Chinese celebration and there are many interesting traditions about it. Do
Read more →Chinese animal signs change every year. Do you know how many Chinese animal signs are there? Let’s take a look. HOW MANY CHINESE ANIMAL SIGNS ARE THERE There are twelve Chinese animal signs. That means they rotate every twelve years. And, it is a way that Chinese people figure out each each other’s age by asking one’s Chinese animal sign. What? Yes! CHINESE ANIMAL SIGNS AND AGE How do people figure out one’s age by knowing their
Read more →Are you a Rabbit? Are you a Ram? Are you a Dragon? Chinese children ask their friends this question for fun. With 2012 approaching and the Chinese New Year coming in a month we are going to take a look at the fun twelve Chinese Birth signs. There are twelve animals and it is a 12-year cycle. If a baby boy and a baby girl were born this year, the year of Rabbit, they will turn 12
Read more →Introduction to Chinese characters Part Three and the last one provided by the publisher. In this video you are going to see 11 Chinese characters from two pictures. One is an animal, the other is a house. It is a lot of fun. Chinese characters in the pictogram group are easy for children to remember. Activity idea: It is fun to play a match up game with the characters and the pictures. Enjoy!
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