In Chinese, learning nouns is not enough. The reason is simple: every noun in Chinese has to stick with a measure word. As there are more than a hundred measure words in Mandarin Chinese, for all kinds of different types of objects such as people, animals, clothes, transportation, body parts, fruits, food, tools, household items, […]
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Chinese vocabulary is the basic building block for Chinese fluency. Characters and words carry meanings. Without them, we simply cannot communicate in Chinese. To help non-Chinese native kids improve Chinese fluency, we need to help them remember (and use) more Chinese words. How to Help Non-Chinese-Native Kids Remember New Chinese Vocabulary? Here are 5 tips:
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Children love playing. They always find time for playful activities, no matter where they are or whether they have friends around or not. For kids, plays act as a key to the doors that open to a new world of discoveries. Through the discoveries, kids develop their language skills. If Chinese is the language, play
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If your happy and you know it, clap your hands Clap, clap Don’t you know this song, “If You’re Happy and You Know It”? You most likely know this song well. Do you know there is a Chinese version of this song too? “如果开心你就跟我拍拍手” As we already know the importance of Chinese children’s songs in
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Kids have a natural fascination with farm animals and their babies. Learning the Chinese names of farm animals is an important part of the farm unit. This Mom and Baby Farm Animals Puzzle activity is a great extension to Chinese learning themes of the farm, animals, baby animals, and so on. Farm Animals and Their
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Music helps children’s learning. Soft background music can help enhance the concentration of the students by creating a calm and relaxing learning environment which benefits both teaching and learning. Chinese children’s songs are great to learn not only for the musical benefit but also for their language benefit. Music and Rhythm Benefit Memorization “Although not
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We want to create an environment for our kids to feel motivated to learn. In addition to inspirational posters and interactive daily calendar, we can use Chinese learning posters to encourage kids to learn Chinese every day. That’s why we created a set of 9 Chinese educational printable posters covering some key aspects of early
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We talk about the weather all the time. How to get our kids to talk about it in Chinese? Here are some Chinese vocabulary and sentence structures we can teach them. The most common questions we use when asking about the weather are 天气怎么样？How is the weather? 今天天气怎么样？ How is the weather today? For this
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People approach to time and task management differently. More efficient people generally have a planner, either physically or digitally. Using a homeschool planner is critical for the success of teaching our children Chinese at home. Here are some reasons you want to use a Chinese homeschool planner. Having an overall picture For parents, homeschooling is
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Surely you know that the Chinese New Year is coming. And this new year is going to be the year of Ox! Ox is the 2nd zodiac animal in Chinese zodiac animals. As we are preparing for the celebration, I thought it would be a good idea to add a bit more fun into Chinese
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Kids love toys, we all know it. Although there are countless toys in the market, some of them are loved by all kids around the world. Let’s make a mini accordion book with our kids while learning Toys in Chinese. Toys Chinese Vocabulary The toys we’re going to learn are 泰迪熊 teddy bear 汽车 car
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Chinese new year is coming, Feb 12, 2021, to be exact. Do you know which year it’s going to be? It is the year of the OX! On that day, we’ll say goodbye to the year of the Rat and welcome the year of the Ox. Following my little tradition (a learning pack for each
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It’s much easier for us to focus on what we believe right for our kids rather than what they are interested in at the moment. This often leads to “no” when we communicate with our kids. As we know, negativity does not help shape our kids in the way we want them to become, so
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It’s hard to believe the year 2020 is almost over. As the new year is quickly approaching, I bet we all start to anticipate a good start and wish that the new year is going to be a year of health, growth, joy, and success. And, surely, a year of progress in Chinese learning. Establishing
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Chinese requires practice. And practice makes it perfect. Chinese Learning progresses from pinyin, character writing, sentence writing to creative writing. Here are 6 types of practice paper for Chinese learning that help kids progress writing at each stage. All four skills, listening, speaking, reading, and writing, need regular exercise. There are different sheets to practice,
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We’ve talked about Chinese radicals. One of them is 口，meaning “mouth” in Chinese. The Chinese characters with this component often have something to do with the mouth. Today let’s have a look at another similar radical female 女. Source: Wikipedia 女 by itself is a word, meaning a female or daughter. 女人 nǚ rén
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Chinese characters with the same radical many times have something in common. Chinese characters containing “口” (mouth) are often grouped together in the “口” section in Chinese dictionaries and usually involves “mouth”. What is a radical? A Chinese radical is so called 部首 bùshǒu, literally meaning, “section header”. It is sometimes translated as an indexing
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In Chinese, there are many 2-character words that turn into different words with the 2 characters reversed. For example, 奶牛 and 牛奶 are two words with the same two characters: 牛and 奶. The first emphasizes on the 牛 and the latter on the 奶. That is, 奶牛 means cow and 牛奶 means mild from a
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Halloween is coming soon and it’s always fun preparing for the day with kids. Pumpkins, bats, ghosts and all the other spooky things. I thought it is a good idea to add some Halloween themed Chinese handwriting, coloring and tracing worksheets so that even the really young kids can enjoy Chinese learning during this period.
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Mid Autumn Festival, or Moon Festival, is an important festival for Chinese people. In China, it is a family reunion time for families, just like Thanksgiving for Americans. It falls on the 15th day of the 8th month in the Chinese lunar calendar, which is normally in September or early October in the Gregorian calendar.
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