Chinese for Kids Blog

Flexes Its Muscles, another episode of Magic School Bus. Hope you like it.

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Here is another episode of Magic School Bus in Chinese. It is about weather. Enjoy it!

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Another Magic School Bus episode- “Get Ant in Its Pants” .

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“Out of This World” from Magic School Bus. It is in Chinese!

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My children like Magic School Bus books. This series of books about Science features Ms. Frizzle and her elementary students board on a magic school bus who takes them to locations such as solar systems, air, sea and other impossible places. The school bus can be transformed into different object to fit in the environment where the field trip takes place — for example, the bus can be transformed into a spaceship when it goes to the space. Scientific facts are presented to readers in fascinating adventures, which makes learning Science very interesting.

Here I would like to show several Magic School Bus TV episodes, in Chinese! My children love to watch them. I believe other children would enjoy them too. The first one is “Wet All Over”

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Spoken Chinese is not difficult. But writing is found by most people (yes, including Chinese people) difficult. Pupils in China have to spend hours practicing writing in order to memorize the characters plus the order of their strokes. As a teacher, I find it hard to teach students the order of strokes especially because asking them follow my writing on the board is always effective. Without a bit more practice afterward, they forget it quickly.

Luckily I found a great resource which lists writing orders of all the common Chinese characters. The characters are categorized alphabetically (pinyin) so it is easy for teachers and students to access. All the writing are flash, it is really handy to watch and follow the stroke orders. Have a look at the writing stroke order of 爱

OK, here is the link. Enjoy writing Chinese characters!

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Two little one-eyed mascots - Olympic mascot Wenlock, Paralympic mascot Mandeville - were unveiled to the world recently. Here is the story video explaining where they came from. Of course, the video is in Chinese!

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wō niú
Snail
蜗牛

gāi bù gāi gē xià zhòng zhòng de ké
该不该搁下重重的壳
xún zhǎo dào dǐ nǎ lǐ yǒu lán tiān
寻找到底哪里有蓝天
suí zhe qīng qīng de fēng qīng qīng de piāo
随着轻轻的风轻轻的飘
lì jīng de shāng dōu bù gǎn jué téng
历经的伤都不感觉疼

wǒ yào yí bù yí bù wǎng shàng pá
我要一步一步往上爬
děng dài yáng guāng jìng jìng kàn zhe tā de liǎn
等待阳光静静看着它的脸
xiǎo xiǎo de tiān yǒu dà dà de mèng xiǎng
小小的天 有大大的梦想
zhòng zhòng de ké guǒ zhe qīng qīng de yǎng wàng
重重的壳裹着着轻轻的仰望　

wǒ yào yí bù yí bù wǎng shàng pá
我要一步一步往上爬
zài zuì gāo diǎn chéng zhe yè piàn wǎng qián fēi
在最高点乘着叶片往前飞
xiǎo xiǎo de tiān, liú guò de leì he hàn
小小的天　留过的泪和汗
zǒng yǒu yì tiān wǒ yǒu shǔ yú zì jǐ de tiān
总有一天我有属于我的天

wǒ yào yí bù yí bù wǎng shàng pá
我要一步一步往上爬
zài zuì gāo diǎn chéng zhe yè piàn wǎng qián fēi
在最高点乘着叶片往前飞
rèn fēng chuī gān liú guò de leì he hàn
任风吹干　留过的泪和汗　

wǒ yào yí bù yí bù wǎng shàng pá
我要一步一步往上爬
děng dài yáng guāng jìng jìng kàn zhe tā de liǎn
等待阳光静静看着它的脸
xiǎo xiǎo de tiān yǒu dà dà de mèng xiǎng
小小的天　有大大的梦想
wǒ yǒu shǔ yú zì jǐ de tiān
我有属于我的天

xiǎo xiǎo de tiān, liú guò de leì he hàn
任风吹干　留过的泪和汗　

zǒng yǒu yì tiān wǒ yǒu shǔ yú zì jǐ de tiān
总有一天我有属于我的天

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Chinese Puppet 1

Chinese puppets have thousands of history. They are beautiful, vivid, showing life on the stage. This program introduces different types of Chinese puppets, puppet show performers and puppet-making techniques in the past thousand years. This is a good film to introduce Chinese folk culture.

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