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Preschool [Continue reading Complete Randomness]  I’d like to share the journey we took to get Schäfer’s Chinese flowing, but I’m hesitant because I don’t like children being compared to each other. Every child is different. Every situation is different. That said, I’ve received a few e-mails asking what worked for us. I’m writing this post to share what we’ve tried so [Continue reading Children & Language Acquisition: What We’ve Learned So Far] NBC News reports on Chinese being taught as a foreign language in a rural Oklahoma high school.  We were quite delighted to find three of the “How Do Dinosaurs…” books by Jane Yolen translated into Chinese. Unfortunately, they are not bilingual, but after looking them over Hubs decided he could translate them pretty quickly. Ever the thrifty one, I thought we should get them because they were only 13.80?($2) compared [Continue reading How Do Dinosaurs Translate Their Text?]  Second languages have never come easy for me. I remember sitting in high school Spanish having a light bulb moment when we learned the word “Estados Unidos”. “Like why don’t they just call America ‘the United States’ like everybody else does? …you mean every single word has to be said differently?” This is called…monolingual. I squeezed in some German [Continue reading On Speaking Chinese] |
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