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Chinese Children’s Song: Happy New Year

Like every one, I have my own new year resolution (新年决心) (xin1 nian2 jue2 xin1).

By the way, in Chinese, we usually say: new year wish (愿望) (yuan4 wang4), new year plan (计划) (ji4 hua4) or new year goal (目标) (mu4 biao1).

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Chinese Characters Word List for Christmas

In this post, we will learn some Chinese characters related with Christmas

Note: Characters from the first picture are mostly from the suggestion of a parent. Thank you, Grace.

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Parent Interview: Oliver Tu

As a parent myself, I know how important it is to have a support group and community while we raise bilingual kids.

As a Chinese teacher and parent, I keep looking for better ideas to help my kids and hopefully other kids learn Mandarin-Chinese in an effective and fun way.

With this purpose, I am going to interview people who have some good ideas and lessons to share.

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Halloween and Chinese Ghost Festival

Halloween (万圣节) (wan4 sheng4 jie2) is here. It is the happiest day for kids, at least for my kids.

When I just came to America, I didn’t understand why people are so happy on this day. It seems American people enjoy playing with anything related with ghost (鬼) (gui3) and death (死亡) (si3 wang2).

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Original Chinese English Bilingual Children’s Song: Colors of the Rainbow

In this post, I will talk about a song I wrote for the purpose of learning Mandarin-Chinese and English:  Colors of the Rainbow (彩虹的颜色).