Hiring a Chinese speaking nanny
1. Organize visits and home plays with friends or community members that speaking the particular language that you would like your child to learn.
2. Join local/starting your own bilingual learning playgroup that is community minded and focus on children's language learning and aiming at providing the best outcome for families.
3. Using free on-line learning materials, and learn it with your child.
4. Install the cable TV system that provides 24/7 language access of programs that you can choose particular time frame to watch the TV show with your child. I don't suggest that you use TV as baby sitter while you get other house chores done. As some of the contents of the show may be ok to the culture background but not acceptable to you.
5. Songs is the best way of helping your child to learn a new language. Song CDs in the car, at home, in the playroom.
6. Printable flashcards, place them all over your house. Visual stimulation is so important to those little brain's development. Fill your house up with them your child will soon learn making connections with what he sees and what it means.
7. Make a space available to encourage your toddler to draw and express himself on the wall, whiteboard, if possible. Don't forget that gross motor skill development is another vital important part of language learning.
8. Most importantly, don't forget to bring fun into the learning. Children won't want to learn or participate if there is no fun. So make it fun for them to do any activities that's the aid to their learning.
from here:
http://forum.brillkids.com/teaching-your-child-signing-speaking-foreign-languages/how-do-english-speaking-parents-teach-baby-to-learn-a-second-language/?wap2
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
8 Reasons to Learn Chinese
Today’s New York Times’s blog talked about whether Americans will really learn Chinese. All the authors praised Europe for their foreign language education policy which makes the Europeans speak at least 2 foreign languages fluently while American government makes foreign language learning a fad which dooms to pass after a while.
Here are my 8 reasons that you should embrace Chinese and learn this foreign language well:
1. Economic competition: Nobody can neglect the rise of China in the global economy. Even though China still has a lot of problems in quality control, it will self-correct under the government’s monitoring effort and the pressure of recall from foreign countries. Join the world economy club with sharpened language skill!
2.Chinese culture has its strength and it’s beneficial to understand and learn from it. eg. It just comes to my mind that the most commonly brought up problem in America rarely happens to Chinese families (both in America and in China): credit card debt. Chinese always plan and save for their financial future and they never spend more than they earn so they can always pay the credit card bill in full and earn the cash rebate! This Chinese virtue can save a lot of American families from debt.
3. Chinese food is delicious AND cheap. While French cooking is delicious and artistic but very expensive and Japanese sushi is over-priced like a brand name sneaker, Chinese food is definitely worth the money spent. Start to learn how to order delicious and authentic Chinese dishes from the menu in Chinese restuaruant and saves lots of bucks in your dining out budget!
4. Chinese supermarkets always have lower price in seafood, fruits , vegetables and meat compare with mainstream supermarkets. If you can read and speak Chinese when you do grocery shopping, it helps.
5. One more reason around Chinese food. The Chinese diet is not fattening so it doesn’t generate obesity problem which is overwhelming in the U. S. Learn to cook Chinese food and you don’t need to have weight loss as your New Year resolution every year!
6. There are 1.3 billion Chinese so one fourth of the world population speaks Chinese. Don’t you want to join the global village?
7. China is a vast country with all kinds of physical landscape for you to explore and enjoy. Learn Chinese and you can be your own tour guide.
8. Okay, you may not believe this reason, but it’s true that Chinese is easy to learn! It doesn’t have verb tenses and gender differences in spelling nouns. Find a good tutor, practice diligently, then you will sing Chinese song like Placido Domingo in no time!
http://www.learnchinese20.com/2010/02/8-reasons-to-learn-chinese.html
Here are my 8 reasons that you should embrace Chinese and learn this foreign language well:
1. Economic competition: Nobody can neglect the rise of China in the global economy. Even though China still has a lot of problems in quality control, it will self-correct under the government’s monitoring effort and the pressure of recall from foreign countries. Join the world economy club with sharpened language skill!
2.Chinese culture has its strength and it’s beneficial to understand and learn from it. eg. It just comes to my mind that the most commonly brought up problem in America rarely happens to Chinese families (both in America and in China): credit card debt. Chinese always plan and save for their financial future and they never spend more than they earn so they can always pay the credit card bill in full and earn the cash rebate! This Chinese virtue can save a lot of American families from debt.
3. Chinese food is delicious AND cheap. While French cooking is delicious and artistic but very expensive and Japanese sushi is over-priced like a brand name sneaker, Chinese food is definitely worth the money spent. Start to learn how to order delicious and authentic Chinese dishes from the menu in Chinese restuaruant and saves lots of bucks in your dining out budget!
4. Chinese supermarkets always have lower price in seafood, fruits , vegetables and meat compare with mainstream supermarkets. If you can read and speak Chinese when you do grocery shopping, it helps.
5. One more reason around Chinese food. The Chinese diet is not fattening so it doesn’t generate obesity problem which is overwhelming in the U. S. Learn to cook Chinese food and you don’t need to have weight loss as your New Year resolution every year!
6. There are 1.3 billion Chinese so one fourth of the world population speaks Chinese. Don’t you want to join the global village?
7. China is a vast country with all kinds of physical landscape for you to explore and enjoy. Learn Chinese and you can be your own tour guide.
8. Okay, you may not believe this reason, but it’s true that Chinese is easy to learn! It doesn’t have verb tenses and gender differences in spelling nouns. Find a good tutor, practice diligently, then you will sing Chinese song like Placido Domingo in no time!
http://www.learnchinese20.com/2010/02/8-reasons-to-learn-chinese.html
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