Teach kids to read in Cantonese is challenging! Before telling you the reason, let me ask a few questions. Do you know in Cantonese, what we read is not how we speak? Did you know I never learned romanization to help with reading Cantonese? Did you know there are many...
Guess what was my favorite things to do as a child during the Chinese New Year? Helping my parents stuffing money into the Chinese New Year red envelopes. Afterward, we were ready to go visit all my relatives and my parents’ friends. It took an entire week with all...
Have you seen your child learn and remember 12 Chinese characters in under 15 minutes? I HAVE! It was amazing! My five-year-old son was using boom cards to learn 12 Chinese characters about family. He recognized and remembered all 12 even though it was his first time...
Chinese New Year is one of the most important festivals for Chinese people. This is also an essential festival for families and friends to get together to give blessings and good fortunes to each other. Through making different Chinese New Year crafts, listening to...
Most of the work and responsibility of teaching Chinese easily falls on the spouse who speaks Chinese or who usually stays with the kids most of the time. Am I right? But can you imagine if both spouses and all the kids thought about, planned and participated in...
Hanging up lanterns is a common decoration you will find during the Chinese New Year. Traditionally, Chinese people hang lanterns and other decorations a few weeks before the first day of the Chinese New Year (Spring Festival). The day after New Year ends (15th day)...
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