by Colin Goh | Aug 25, 2022 | Bilingual, Education, Parenting
Bilingualism is a super-power! Neuroscientific studies show that bilingual kids can parse and handle more complex situations because they’re used to interpreting multiple linguistic and social cues. Here’s a useful video from PBS explaining just how and...
by Colin Goh | Aug 18, 2022 | Bilingual, Blog, Books, Education, Parenting
Guest blogger: Lim Swee Pei is a mother of 4 and she is homeschooling her kids in Singapore. She shares her experience with competitive parenting, homeschooling and struggling with Chinese. (Her kids are members of the Dim Sum Warriors Club.) Introduction We have a...
by Ching | Jul 29, 2022 | Bilingual, Blog, Education
To celebrate Singapore’s National Day, we’ve come up with a quiz on Singapore’s distinct strain of Mandarin Chinese, which we call 新加坡华语 (Xīnjiāpō Huáyǔ). It’s pretty similar to mainland China’s 普通话(Pǔtōnghuà) and Taiwan’s 國語...
by Woo Yen Yen | Jul 22, 2022 | Bilingual, Blog, Chinese Traditions, Education, Parenting, Yen Yen
There are already so many Chinese Learning Resources out there – is the Dim Sum Warriors Club worth it? There are so many Chinese learning resources out there – how do we choose? It’s important to know what you’re getting because it’s...
by Woo Yen Yen | Jul 18, 2022 | Bilingual, Blog, Chengyu, Chinese Traditions, Education, Parenting
Guest contributor: Jocelyn Sara Lim-Tan is a seasoned teacher and education researcher and the mom of Jude and Joshua. In this piece, she shares her tips for building a daily routine to boost Chinese language learning for her bilingual children. Bilingual Children...
by Woo Yen Yen | Jul 7, 2022 | Bilingual, Blog, Books, Chinese Traditions, Education, Parenting
5 Ways NOT to Kill Creativity in Your Kids Ministries of Education all over the world are racing to equip children with competencies that are needed for the 21st century: critical thinking, communicating, collaborating, and inventive or creative thinking. ...
