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Why I Set Up a Mandarin Chinese Moms Club

If you try to raise a bilingual child, you might know the importance of a playdate. I have a post talking about this topic: How to Set Up a Playdate for Learning Mandarin Chinese.

However, before you set up a playdate, you have to know some parents first. In  this topic, I am going to share my experience about how to set up a parents club.

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Chinese Ancient Poem: Painting

We will appreciate a Chinese ancient poem: painting (画 ) (hua4).  

It was said the title “painting” was not the original title of this poem . People found this poem on a painting, so they gave the poem the title “painting”.

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Basic Rules for Reading Chinese Characters

Before we talk about basic rules for reading Chinese characters, we have to know a bit about how Chinese characters are formed.

Generally, there are four main forms of Chinese characters.

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Chinese Children’s Song: Ten Little Friends

We will sing a song in Mandarin Chinese: ten little friends (十个小朋友)(shi2 ge4 xiao3 peng2 you3).

If you don’t know how to count numbers in Mandarin-Chinese, you have to learn number song first, then come back to learn this song.

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Chinese Idiom Story: A Frog In the Well

A frog in the well (井底之蛙) (jing3 di3 zhi1 wa1) is a very famous Chinese idiom story.

It tells a story about a frog that lived in a well, he thought he knew everything, however, after a conversation with a turtle passing by the well,  he realized that he only knew well of a small world: the well where he was living.