Little mouse found a biscuit.
Little mouse found an apple.
Little mouse found a piece of bread.
Little mouse found a piece of cheese.
Little mouse found some strawberries.
Little mouse brought Puppy Beibei.
Puppy Beibei brought a bone.
It is time for picnic!
A really nice book to learn some terms of picnic food.
biscuit - 饼干 （bǐng gān)
apple － 苹果 (píng guǒ)
bread － 面包 (miàn bāo)
cheese － 奶酪 [...]
It is evening.
Xingchen is sleeping.
But Huahua the kitty is awake.
She plays with her tale,
she plays with ball,
she plays with yarn,
she plays the piano.
Xingchen wakes up.
A very short but lovely story. Some words are useful:
睡觉（shuì jiào) means “sleep”
醒（ｘǐｎｇ) means “wake up”
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“Go out” in Chinese is 出去（chū qù). “Come in” in Chinese is 进来（jìn lái). This online reading material features these two useful phrases. Some other expressions we can learn are:
- 让…出去/让…进来 (ràng… chū qù / ràng… jìn lái)
let … out /let …in
- 想出去/ 想进来 (xiǎng chū qù / xiǎng jìn lái)
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猪(zhū), pig, is the last animal in the Chinese zodiac cycle. In Chinese zodiac, pigs are believed to be sincere, noble, tolerant an pure. People born in Pig years (1971, 1983, 1995, 2007) are caring, careful, loyal and giving. They are in general lucky and a bit lazy.
Here let’s have a look at [...]
Different from most people, kids view wolves cute and lovely. The pronunciation is a bit challenging for some children since ang does not really exist in English. Below is a small clip showing the order of strokes writing the character as well its pronunciation. Make sure you click on the icon to listen to [...]
It is interesting to see how much children love horses. In my Chinese club class, the first animal they asked to learn its Chinese name was horse! The character is 马（mǎ).
Follow the video clip to learn the stroke order.
真香（zhēn xiāng) in Chinese means “smells good”. It can be used whenever you smell something and find it smells good, for example, flowers, food. The opposite word of 香（xiāng） is 臭（chòu).
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Duckling likes swimming. He jumped into the water. Little goose likes swimming. He jumped into the water. Little pig likes swimming. He jumped into the water. Little Pony likes swimming. He jumped into the water. Little elephant likes swimming. He jumped into the water too. Elephant looked around to find friends to play with. But [...]
A playful kitten (Hua Hua) tried to catch things in the garden: it wanted to catch a butterfly, it flew away; it then tried to catch a frog, it jumped away; it tried to catch chicks, they ran away. It tried to catch cactus, it caught it. Good job, Hua Hua!
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Little and big, the two important concepts are narrated very well in this book. The sound makes it even more interesting. Great for beginners to learn Mandarin Chinese.
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