Miss Panda’s Chinese Character Series featured Chinese character: 太 (Tài) – This word means “extremely, too, very.” 太 has one more stroke than 大 (= dà or “big”). <imageanchor=”1″ style=”clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em”> We can use 太 tài in the following phrases: 太太 – tài tai = wife, married lady, Mrs. 太大 – tài dà = too big 太小 – tài xiǎo = too small 太餓 – tài è = too hungry 太忙 – tài máng =
Read more →Miss Panda’s Chinese Character Series featured Chinese character: 口 (Kǒu) – This is a picture word, which means “mouth.” Chinese characters with this radical in it always have something to do with mouth. <imageanchor=”1″ style=”clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em”> We can use 口 kǒu in the following phrases: 一口 – yī kǒu = one bite 一大口 – yī dà kǒu = one big bite 一小口 – yī xiǎo kǒu = one small bite 吃一口 – chī yī kǒu
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<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 →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
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 →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!
Read more →Introduction to Chinese characters from the pictogram group (Part 2). You will see the transformation of 10 characters in this short and fun video. Enjoy!
Read more →I love teaching Chinese to young children – they are so enthusiastic!
Read more →Here is a short video giving an Introduction to the beautiful Chinese characters in the pictogram group. Many Chinese characters are like pictures and those are the basic elements/words to form the compound characters. Enjoy the beauty of Chinese characters and culture!
Read more →Writing Chinese characters is a lot of fun. Follow the strokes and write the character. They are all picture words. Let’s take a look at each word, its pronunciation, and its meaning. 人 – reń – person, people 大 – dà – big 天 – tān – sky 中 – zhōng – middle 小 – xiǎo – small, little ***Click on the characters below and see how they are written.*** Word List #1 人 大
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