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Have created a simple Family tree sheet for the children. Then many questions came up:”how to call my uncle?””what about my cousin?” So I created […]
When we learn a foreign language, sometimes we find it helpful to use our native language to memorize the pronunciation of the foreign language. But sometimes, it is … funny. Here is a joke I read recently.
A man is learning Chinese. Here is his notes on the Chinese text.
ear Tim,
shall by too dull doll by […]
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In Olympic Games held in Beijing, the word most often heard was “加油”(jiā yóu)。
What does it mean? Literally, “加”means fill, add; “油”means oil or fuel. Does “加油” mean “fill up fuel”, as if filling fuel to a car? No. Actually it means “GO”. It is a way Chinese try to cheer up […]
The major color of the Chinese national flag is red (红hóng) . The 5 stars are in bright yellow (黄huáng). It is called Five-Starred Red Flag, in Chinese, it is 五星红旗(wǔ xīng hóng qí) .
The world is colorful. Colors are so important that we see them, touch them, play with them all the time. When we ask kids questions, we may not get any answer; but if we ask them what colors they like the most, we are sure to get responses: boys tend to answer “blue“（蓝), little girls “pink”(粉红）.
We […]
游泳 yóu yǒng swim
水母 shuǐ mǔ jelly-fish
海洋 hǎi yáng ocean
鱼 yǔ fish
海豚 hǎi tún dolphin
鼻子 bí zi […]
Pinyin makes Chinese easy to learn. A lot of people feel released when they get to know that they can actually pronounce Chinese words without understanding the symbols. However, the pronunciation system is quite different from the western alphabet pronunciation. You got to learn the system by heart. Below is the best video I have […]
Culture Cubs is a bilingual DVD teaching kids Chinese. I saw some of the episodes and liked them. Here is one example.
Some words mentioned in the video:
你好 nǐ hǎo hi
朋友 péng yǒu friend
走吧 zǒu ba let’s go
我喜欢 wǒ xǐ […]
photo credit Ava Babili
We were in Athens last weekend. It was in February, but the weather was gorgeous. 16 degrees, sunny. The sky was so clear that we felt it were March. On Sunday, we could not resist taking a walk. Where to go? We went to Acropolis.
On the road surrounding Acropolis, we saw thousands […]
