Ni Hao Children's Community Mandarin Chinese Language Education Programme
A chance for your child to learn Mandarin Chinese through group social interaction and fun experiences
This week, we’ll be starting to learn our Mandarin translated version of this popular under 5’s song. It’s quite a wordy one, so we are starting at 5, not the … Continue reading There were five in the bed and the little one said…
Last week, we heard about Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and role-played through the story. We all became Goldilocks with our masks and we learnt about: Hot, cold and warm porridge, … Continue reading Term 3, Week 3 Recap: Toddlers & Preschoolers: Goldilocks & the Three Bears
Thank you to everyone who came along to our parent (and child) workshop & shared morn tea last Saturday. It was a nice lil’ busy one and the children really … Continue reading Our Mandarin version, with actions! Slippery Fish, Slippery Fish,…
Here’s a useful video on how to read and pronounce four of the tones in Mandarin (vid is about 1/2 hr long):
For the adults learning Mandarin, here is a one hour long, intensive vid on reading & pronouncing pinyin 🙂
We’ll be using this beat for one of our songs/chants in the Kids class this term 🙂
…in Mandarin of course! We’ve been specially translating it for our classes 🙂 We’re not releasing our Mandarin audio publicly, but here are the English versions! We’ve tried to simplify it … Continue reading Teaser: we’ll be singing Slippery Fish in Term 3
A funny and insightful video about learning languages by Tim Doner. Tim is 17 years old and fluent in 10 languages 🙂 German, Arabic, Mandarin, Farsi,…
Term 2 Weeks 3 and 4 Toddlers & Preschoolers head 头 tóu shoulders 肩膀 jiān bǎng knees 膝盖 xī gài toes 脚趾 jiǎo zhǐ arms 胳膊 gē bo eyes 眼睛 … Continue reading Term 2, Weeks 3 & 4 vocab & phrases: Toddlers & Preschoolers
Here’s the list of the vocabulary and phrases we’re learning for the first four weeks of Term 2 🙂 Kids Weeks 1 & 2: Hello 你好 nǐ hǎo Goodbye 再见 zài jiàn How … Continue reading Term 2, Weeks 1 to 4 vocab & phrases: Kids
Rap-along! When we first heard this rap, my daughter and I thought it would be so much more fun with actions (and meaningful ones too!). Together we came up with … Continue reading The Number Rap (now with lyrics added!)
We’ve been requested to provide a list of the vocabulary and phrases we’re learning, so here it is for the first two weeks of Term 2 🙂 We’ll try to do a PDF version … Continue reading Term 2, Weeks 1 & 2 vocab & phrases: Toddlers & Preschoolers
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