by Yen Yen | Jan 7, 2022 | Bilingual, Blog, Books, Education, Parenting, Yen Yen
Cosplay: Meaning For Our Immigrant Family Coming from Singapore, I didn’t really care about Halloween – to me it was just a highly commercialized holiday involving too much candy that was celebrated mainly by expatriates and poseurs. Since moving to New York,...
by Yen Yen | Jan 3, 2022 | Bilingual, Blog, Books, Education, Yen Yen
Many classrooms employ reading levels charts for their students, but up-to-date research is showing that this way of regulating students’ reading doesn’t have strong scientific evidence to support it. This is why we have deliberately shied away from...
by Woo Yen Yen | Dec 15, 2021 | Bilingual, Blog, Education, Yen Yen
Get Your Students to Draw Cartoons and Learn Chinese This Lunar New Year 2022! For Lunar New Year 2022, Dim Sum Warriors has a creative and fun Chinese New Year Livestream Activity that you can now book for your school! ****Book quickly because we only have 6 slots...
by Woo Yen Yen | Dec 15, 2021 | Bilingual, Blog, Education, Yen Yen
Learn Chinese for Kids Part 3: The Importance of INTEREST In this four-part series, former New York-based professor and “ang moh pai” (Western-Educated) English teacher Dr. Woo Yen Yen went from being that student who ripped up her Chinese textbook to writing Chinese...
by Woo Yen Yen | Dec 15, 2021 | Bilingual, Blog, Education, Yen Yen
How I got my American born daughter to learn Chinese – Part 2 How am I going to get my daughter to learn Chinese in New York? In a previous post, I had talked about how hard it was for me to find suitable Chinese teaching and learning solutions for so my daughter...
by Woo Yen Yen | Dec 15, 2021 | Bilingual, Blog, Education, Yen Yen
Desperate Search for Solutions to Help My Kid Learn Chinese When we were living in New York, I found myself looking for learn Chinese materials for my daughter (nicknamed ‘YB’, short for ‘Yakuza Baby’, because she was born while we were...
