Kids Learning Chinese
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Top Cartoons in Asia
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Lao Mountain Taoist – an Educational Chinese cartoon
Nowadays, Chinese parents are much worried about their kid’s television habit. There are so many questions playing their minds as what their children are learning through watching TV shows, movies, talk shows, soap opera, cartoons, and even news updates. Usually, they would take time to also watch the show to make sure that kids are getting educational learning from it. Is there any TV show that makes interesting yet educational image to children?
There are many Chinese cartoons parents can recommend to their children. One of them is the famous Lao Mountain Taoist that portrays the ancient Chinese folklore stories. It is a story of a man named Wang Qi who one time went to Lao mountain to see if there are immortals exists in the place. He saw a man who was already old yet looks young physically. He becomes the Taoist pupil for three months. On the first month, he listens and follows his teacher’s commands like of going to hills for woods every day. On the second month, he feels the pain is pulling him down and cannot anymore endure his painful life in the mountain. Still, he waited for his teacher to teach him the magical skills. The third month came and the pain he suffers has come to end. The Taoist saw the patience and hard work of Wang Qi so he decided to teach him the incantation to memorize and narrate it for walking through the wall.
This Lao Mountain Taoist teaches us to be patient, and be hard working to achieve our goals. Everything in life must be earned through self determination and faith in God. Thus, children need to be a good listener and follow teacher’s instructions in order to be good in school. This is a good story which children can relate to. The good deeds of Wang Qui are their driving force to achieve their goals in school.
There are lots of best examples of cartoons with educational advantage. Parents can ask a friend or neighbors of what cartoons are appropriate to their children’s learning needs. It would be very hard for parents to ensure that a certain cartoons fit their educational standards. Only educational cartoons make them inspired to go to school and be kind just like their favorite Chinese cartoons.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Best Way to Teach American Children Chinese
Americans are much worried of China’s rapid growth of economy that they are more likely to learn Chinese language to go in being competitive
Speaking and writing Chinese have a big reputation to prove being the highest standard of intellectual achievement. If American children can learn it very well, no one will ever doubt of their intelligence. So, can someone speak this language fluently over the phone that no one can ever think they are Americans? How can children best learned it the easy way?
There are so many methods for Chinese language to be learned by Americans. They can enroll their kids to a Chinese language subject, study Chinese online, hire a tutor, or just learn at home by the many resources parents can provide.
For American speakers, there is practically no recognizable vocabulary in Chinese so the process of learning Chinese would entail your time, patience and effort. On the other hand, this language is not hard to memorize because Chinese uses short words when speaking. Keep repeating these words and you can create plurisyllabic words form the combination of monosyllabic words. As you learn more monosyllabic words, your vocabulary increases as you can easily distinguish the meaning of plurissyllabic words.
The best way for American children to learn the language is to identify and write down words they want to learn. Ask a native speaker to say the words and record it in an audio recording device. Keep on repeating the words until you got the tone right. Once you made the wrong tone of the word, this will definitely change its meaning. Once you have memorized the words, use them in a sentence. Make each day like that you are reading a textbook with different words to learn everyday.