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Let’s Go Guang Helps Kids Learn Chinese
I’ve always thought that if learning Chinese could be more like watching Dora the Explorer or Dragon Tales, my kids would have a much easier time being bilingual. So when aha!Chinese offered me a...
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Things You Should Know About Teaching Your Kids Mandarin
Chinese is currently one of the most popular languages for children to learn, but it’s also perceived as difficult for native English speakers to learn. I recently interviewed aha!Chinese...
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Supporting Bilingual Children: A Call to Authors
Guest post by Vickie Tsui of Mandarin Tiger Mom . Although Vickie is no Amy Chua, she is a bilingual Chinese American mom who is trying to raise her children to be truly fluent in both Mandarin Chinese...
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Gordon and Li Li Mandarin iPad App and Books
Guest post by Priscilla Shih Cinque, a HapaMama Over the last couple of weeks, my almost 8-year-old son has been learning the Mandarin names of 28 animals using the iPad app, Gordon & Li Li Learn...
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If You Don’t Speak an Asian Language, Are You Losing Your Ethnicity?
Image Credit: Laurent Jegou, Flickr Featured Post by Sian Wu of That’s Amasian! It’s a common experience for most Asian Americans: people assuming that we can’t speak English. This misjudgment...
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GoBooBoo Books and CDs Teach Kids Mandarin – Review and 30% Off
It’s been a struggle for me to get my boys to learn Chinese, but since we’re headed to Taiwan in a few months, we’d better brush up! So when GoBooBoo approached me with the chance to try out this new...
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Mandarin Chinese Sesame Street Is Now on YouTube
A few months ago, I mentioned that Chinese language episodes of Sesame Street were in production. Well, now you can watch them on YouTube. The animated Mandarin learning program is called Fun Fun...
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Language in Taiwan: Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese or English?
Welcome to this week’s installment of Taiwan Tuesday! This week, I’m talking about what languages people speak on the beautiful island. As I headed to Taiwan, I wondered what language would be most...
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Peter and the Wolf in Mandarin at the Palo Alto JCC
Looking for a fun multicultural and bilingual family show for the holidays? The Oshman Family Jewish Community Center in Palo Alto will be hosting multimedia and multilingual productions of the...
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My ELL Article for School Library Journal
Image Credit: School Library Journal One of the topics I’ve always been interested in is how changing race and ethnic demographics affect education and language learning. So when I had the...
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