Raising A Bilingual Kid Is A Journey of Learning And Progress One of my cubs started college a few weeks ago. Four of us drove to the school. Three of us came back home. One is in the dorm a few hours away. I told the cubs, “When you go to college I will switch to speaking English to you. No more Chinese.” It sounds like a trick but I was and am serious about it. A
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Teaching Your Child Chinese As Your Heritage Language There are different language and culture proficiency levels when we talk about Chinese as your heritage language. … In the United States, languages other than English are often thought of and referred to as “foreign” languages. However, many people who live in the United States have cultural connections to and know languages other than English. These languages are not “foreign” to particular individuals or communities; instead, they
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AlsoCelebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month – a celebration of the culture and history of Asian-Pacific Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States. Asian Pacific American Heritage Month originated as a congressional bill in 1978. In 1992, it was expanded from a week to a month-long celebration. This is a time to honor, celebrate and learn more about the diverse Asian-Pacific cultures. Also, it is a great
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Papercutting Art for Lunar New Year – World Culture for Kids Celebrating Lunar New Year with cultural activities! Papercutting art is a hands-on activity for kids and adults to explore art, the Chinese language, and culture. Chinese paper design art is originated from cutting patterns for Chinese embroidery. Later it transformed into folk art. The history of paper cutting began in the 4th century in the Hàn dynasty, China. These 2D design papercutting art are window
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Teach Children Languages Through Play with Habbi Habbi + You now have a chance to give a fabulous set of Habbi Habbi books (10 bilingual books and a reading wand) to a family or a school! Hanna and Anne-Louise are the two Mom founders of Habbi Habbi bilingual books and reading wand. The available language combinations for the books are Chinese-English and Spanish-English at this time. Their growing number of books for young readers covers
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Raise Multi-literate Children Please welcome my fellow teacher friend, Yoshito Darmon-Shimamori! He is the author of The Parents’ Guide to Raising Multi-literate Children, His website Library4Multilinguals has a growing number of tools and resource for parents and educators to guide children to read and write in the target languages and reach the goal to raise multi-literate kids. Yoshito is here to tell his story of growing up multilingual and share his home-tested and classroom-tested literacy-building tips,
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First Mandarin Sounds is my debut book. I wrote this book to assist families who are learning Mandarin Chinese together. It’s for parents who are learning Mandarin to guide their children to explore the Chinese language with a purpose. You and your child will learn and grow from the first sounds, first words, to first sentences, and more. “Fun” is a simple word. It’s also an important word in learning and living. When you embed fun in
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Adam Beck Interview on his latest books and raising bilingual kids journey update You just need to persevere through because day by day week by week month by month year by year it will all add up. Over time you just need to keep going and provide, I mean, build the basic building blocks of progress. Successes are ample language exposure. There are not too many things that are universal about this experience but language exposure is.
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National Reading Month Chinese Literacy for Kids There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island. -Walt Disney How do you connect National Reading Month with language learning to boost Chinese literacy for kids? You can add diversity to National Reading Month. Add the reading of books in the target language and culture to the book list. Here are the books you can read with your kids. Make reading an event
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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 you with a fun introduction
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