Teach Your Kids Chinese: The Ultimate Resource Guide! Online and offline Chinese resources for parents who are non-native speakers. You are learning Mandarin as a family and you can make it happen! 2020 update. This post has affiliate links. Thank you for your support! Teach Your Kids Chinese as you are learning Mandarin at the same time. Teach Your Kids Chinese: The Ultimate Resource Guide! When I first started teaching Mandarin Chinese almost all of my students
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Picture Chinese Series: Chinese New Year Special The Chinese New Year celebration is a 15-day festivity. With all the Spring Festival cultural events going on around the world this is a great time to locate one and to experience the celebration in person in your area. If there is nothing similar locally you can join me to see what it is like. I got a chance to visit Chinatown in Washington DC. The year of
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Follow my blog with Bloglovin Chinese Beef Noodle soup is one of the most popular dishes in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. There are different variations of this recipe depending on the location people are from but the popularity of this soup is unbeatable. There are noodle shops specialized in beef noodle soup all over Taiwan. The signature beef noodle soup from different restaurants compete annually for the championship of the best noodle soup. This is a
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Chinese Lunar New Year series presents “Chinese New Year Must-Know Lucky Phrases!” Happy Spring Festival! Happy Lunar New Year! Why do you need to know the Chinese New Year Must-Know Lucky Phrases? It is because the most important thing during the Lunar New Year is to keep a positive spirit and to say the traditional Chinese lucky phrases when greeting family and friends. Here are the TOP three lucky phrases you will hear during Chinese Lunar New
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Read Learning Unit Description here. Are you a Monkey? Are you a Chicken/Rooster? Are you a dog? Are you a pig? Chinese children ask their friends these questions for fun. They also use the Animal Birth Signs to figure out how old their friends are. With the arrival of the Year of the Rooster less than 10 days, we are going to take a look at the fun twelve Chinese Animal Birth Signs . There are
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Lucky Word Sign Craft for the Chinese Lunar New Year We are going to work on a cultural craft for the Lunar New Year. This is one classic and most popular Chinese Lunar New Year lucky word sign you will see throughout the Chinese lunar new year celebration. Many Chinese families keep this sign up in the house all year long. They replace it with a new one in the next new year. We welcome the Year
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What is the one Chinese dish that is close to roasted Turkey that we have for Thanksgiving in the U.S.? Have you tried Peking Roasted Duck? Have you heard about three ways of eating Peking roasted duck? The first one is crispy duck wrap, the second one is duck stir fry and the third one is duck soup. All three dishes are from one Peking roasted duck. Does it sound similar to how we eat Thanksgiving turkey?
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Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! = 中秋節快樂 (traditional characters) = 中秋节快乐 (simplified characters), this greeting is read as Zhōng qiū jié kuài lè. The festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth month on the lunar calendar and it falls on September 16 this year (2016). The dates for the Mid-Autumn festival in the next a few years are as below. October 4, 2017 September 24, 2018 September 13, 2019 October 1, 2020 September 21, 2021 September
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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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Chinese Lunar New Year: Lucky Food to Eat The Lunar New Year’s Eve family reunion dinner in Chinese community is the feast with the most symbolic dishes to carry good luck to the new year. You can see and enjoy the lucky food during the 15 days of the Chinese Lunar New Year celebration and the New Year’s Eve day. Why are these food or dishes considered lucky? Why Chinese dumplings? They are auspicious because of their
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