I like using videos to supplement foreign language learning. While they aren’t comparable to interaction […]
Curriculum to Learn Mandarin Chinese
We have tried many different resources in our journey to learn Mandarin. Our newest find […]
Free Mandarin Cartoons Online
Last night I ran across some excellent Mandarin videos for kids that have been recently […]
6 Reasons Why We Are Learning Multiple Languages
We have been on this foreign language journey for many years now. I started exposure […]
Thoughts on Foreign Language With a Visual-Spatial Learner
My son recently said something to me that had me thinking. We have been studying […]
Scheduling Multiple Foreign Languages
Over the years I’ve changed our schedule many times and we have tried different ways […]
Foreign Language Lessons in Kindergarten
We start foreign language formally in Kindergarten. By formally, I mean that we do formal […]
Teaching a Foreign Language When You Don’t Speak it.
I am not an expert in foreign language instruction. I only speak English fluently and […]
Mandarin Chinese Conversation Practice
Slow and steady is how it goes here. Our progress with Mandarin has been slow and steady since we began. We are currently using the New Practical Chinese Reader as a textbook and meet with a tutor once a month to get help with conversation, pronunciation, pinyin, and character writing.
Mandarin Chinese: Play-Based Foreign Language for Little Ones
My young daughter loves to play and imagine. She enjoys learning Chinese too. One day […]