Songs are a great way to learn a language. This post shares catchy and clean Mando pop / C-pop songs for children from across the decades.
Category Archives: Teaching kids Chinese
Skritter review: app to learn Chinese characters and tingxie
Skritter is the BEST way we’ve discovered to practice tingxie. Spaced repetition, customised wordlists, and effortless progress tracking. It includes pronunciation, tones, and much more.
Geniebook Chinese review
Geniebook Chinese app review – it is worth the price? Here’s our opinion of their live online classes and AI-powered assessment sheets for learning MOE Syllabus Chinese.
Building a Chinese book library at home for children
This post outlines how you can go about creating your own children’s Chinese book collection at home, and what to think about as you do it. It includes the types of books we have by age, genre and author, and also where they came from. Lots of geeky charts and graphs.
Chinese Flash cards and Montessori Leitner Box approach for kids
Have you ever struggled to find the perfect Chinese flashcards and wanted to design you own? And what do you do once you find them? This post is about different types and uses for flashcards, including in a Leitner Box.
Our favourite Chinese learning platforms – update 2 years later
An update for my original post on online Chinese classes. What have we continued with? How does it differ by child? What are the watchouts?
Excellent resources for meaningful home learning
Best out-of-the-box home curriculums which we’ve discovered for busy mums to support their kids with literacy in Chinese, & English, Math , and ,exploring nature as a family.
Online Chinese Class Review: GoEast Mandarin – Classes for Children
Our family thinks online classes are great! Finding amazing language classes which interest my kids has become somewhat of an addiction for me as their mother, and has been a huge help in our journey of language acquisition. This post shares our wonderful experiences with GoEast Mandarin, which is where my #2 child (the fussiestContinue reading “Online Chinese Class Review: GoEast Mandarin – Classes for Children”
Dim Sum Warriors Bilingual Learning System – interview with CEO
An interview with Dr Woo Yen Yen, the co-creator of Dim Sum Warriors Bilingual Learning System 点心侠. Learn what translanguaging is, and how it can be effective and fun tool on a bilingual journey.
Chinese Math Online Classes for Children – comparison
This review is a head-to-head comparison of our experience with trialing six different online Math classes which are taught in Chinese, including HouHua, VIP Think, Wukong, Zhangman Kid and various Singapore Math options.