by Woo Yen Yen | Dec 7, 2022 | Bilingual, Blog, Education, Parenting, Yen Yen
Bilingual Books: A Powerful Tool for Second Language Learning In this article, we explore the mystery of why many kids dislike reading books in their 2nd language, and how research shows how bilingual books and stories are a great way to change that behaviour. ...
by Colin Goh | Sep 6, 2022 | Bilingual, Education, Parenting
6 Takeaways & a video recap! from our recent Translanguaging Pedagogy webinar Thank you to everyone who signed up for our Translanguaging webinar on 1 September 2022! We attracted participants from more territories than we ever expected: the US, Canada, the...
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...
