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
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Sing along and dance! Mandarin Chinese – Zhong guo hua 中國話 by S.H.E. This video has lyrics support in pinyin and Chinese characters. This is a song that older children will enjoy with its tongue twister lyrics part and culture content. It is a chat generator with many cultural topics that you can touch on such as, language learning, tones in Chinese, tongue twister comparison in different languages. Lyrics courtesy of tammiest@AsianFanatics 扁擔寬 板凳長 Bian dan kuan
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