Chinese For Kids

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Today we celebrate Halloween! Ja, Halloween, the festival for kids– they dress up with funny costumes, making fun of each other. Maybe they are going to play “trick-or-treat”. I am not sure that “trick-or-treat” is played here in Germany, I […]

I read an article from Chosun.com about learning Chinese. It is a Korean newspaper. The article basically encourages Koreans to learn Chinese. It would be easier for Koreans to learn Chinese since Korea was heavily influenced by Chinese language and culture in the past. Actually most of the ancient Korean documents were written in Chinese. […]

Olympic Games is coming. I think introducing the mascots of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games is not only interesting, it is important for the children to know more about them. The choice of the design, the names convey the Chinese traditional and culture. The official Mascots of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, instead the usual one […]

I love this song by Zhāng Shàohán 张韶涵. Let’s quote some from the words
每一次都在徘徊孤单中坚强
měi yī cì dōu zài pái huái gū dān zhōng jiān qiáng
Every time I wander in loneliness, I get stronger;
每一次就算很受伤也不闪泪光
měi yī cì jiù suàn hěn shòu shāng yě bù shǎn lèi guāng
Every time even if I […]

There are only 297 days to the date of 2008 Olympic Games. We were searching for tickets for the opening ceremony, we asked several travel agencies and were told that all the tickets to the opening ceremony were sold out！
OK, no chance to go for the opening ceremony, but it is still good to talk […]

This is a clip from Linese.com. It is a conversation between two kids.
Nǐ jǐ suì？
——你 几 岁？
How old are you?
Wǒ shísì suì 。
我 十四 岁。
I am 14 years old.
Nǐ de shēngrì shì jǐ yuè jǐ hào ？
你 的 生日 是 几 月 […]

WashingtonPost featured an article titled “New urgency to learn Chinese” by Lori Aratani. The article covered the increasing interest in learning Chinese in US schools and the lack of qualified Chinese teachers.
” Increasingly, it’s non-Asian parents who want their children to learn Chinese, citing the desire to remain competitive for the best jobs.”
“They want their […]

There is one short story made of words that used only one Chinese sound, shi (sounds like ’sure’). It was written by Zhao Yuanren, a linguist in Chinese, the author of “A Grammar of Spoken Chinese”. This short story is composed of 91 words and all of the words are of the same sound “Shi”(yes). […]

Why do we study Chinese? It is a question I initially asked the LP’s in the Chinese club. The answers varied from “my parents want me to learn Chinese” to “It is an interesting language. I want to know how to write Chinese characters” to “My father is going to be transferred to Shanghai, and […]