When I was a Mandarin Chinese teacher at a private school, I found it hard to find Chinese songs for Western holidays. However, as a teacher, I am supposed to find related teaching materials about holiday celebrations.
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As I mentioned before, for a beginner, the best way to learn Mandarin Chinese is to read a lot. However, for a young child, the best way to learn is by singing songs.
It will be nice if there is a song to accompany a little child sleeping while the mother sings the song in Mandarin Chinese.
Did you hear about the famous Chinese folk tale “Three Monks”? If not, now is the time to learn about this interesting story.
It is said, a long long time ago, there lived a little monk at a temple. This little monk took care of everything very well including carrying water every day for drinking water and watering plants.
Thanksgiving is here. 感恩节到了。 ( gǎn ēn jié dào le ) I have to say, I like this holiday very much. I like Thanksgiving because it is a special holiday to express our appreciation.
As we know, Thanksgiving is an American holiday. There is no Chinese songs about this holiday. In order to help children learn Mandarin Chinese, I created an oringal happy thanksgiving song.
In this post, we are going to learn another popular Chinese nursery rhyme: One, Two, Three, Four, Five. For the better learning experience, I changed this rhyme a little bit to make sure children will get all the numbers from one to ten.