I read an article letter from the Times. It was written by Dr Richard Pike, Chief Executive of Royal Society of Chemistry.
Dr. Pike himself was one of the small group of students who started to learn Japanese when Japan started to become the “Asian giant” in 1970s. He later spent years working in Japan, [...]
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This is a unit we talked in our club recently. The kids liked it since we played different games regarding cats and flowers. This is also part of my new creation “Chinese for Young Learners” which will be published soon. Please let me know what you think.
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We know that when you pronounce Chinese, you got to pause between sounds. OK, here is how somebody learns to speak Chinese, yes, in a very short time.
That’s not right…
Sum Ting Wong
Are you harboring a fugitive?…
Hu Yu Hai Ding?
See me ASAP…
Kum Hia Nao
Stupid Man…
Dum Gai
Small Horse…
Tai Ni Po Ni
Did you go to the beach?…
Wai Yu [...]
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汉å—（hà n zì ), Chinese characters, are of thousands of years history. It is interesting, esp. for children, to find out the origin of them since they have changed over the years. Here is a video showing the evolution of some common Chinese characters.
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China is a huge country, there are many regional dialects. Many times people from different regions cannot communicate as if they spoke different languages. The most known spoken languages are Cantonese and Mandarin. Cantonese is the dialect used majorly in the South, in Cantonese Province. Because a lot of Chinese living aboard were from [...]
Friedrich, my German colleague, kindly introduced me to a Chinese program offered by SWR SouthWest Radio station. It is a program for beginners, with the aim preparing Germans for the Olympic Games Beijing 2008.
The program is detailed as below:
The radio programs can be downloaded as mp3 files. So it is really handy for anyone who [...]
This song helps kids to count from 1 to 10. Here is one video clip featuring this song.
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