Chinese for Kids
Chinese for kids is an online Chinese language learning website and app for kids by Dino Lingo.
Best methods to learn Chinese: How to teach children Chinese
Online Chinese lessons for kids: dinolingo.com Get fairy tales and storybooks in Chinese online or from your local library Children love shared reading time and regardless of language acquisition, they will always remember the time they spent with you reading books. Try to find books with good illustrations. Look at the pictures with your child,
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Traditional Chinese Musical Instruments
Traditional Musical Instruments Ancient Chinese believed music cleansed people’s minds. There were around 70 types of traditional musical instruments. The instruments were a string, wind, and percussion. These are ten of the most common traditional instruments. Xun The xun is one of the oldest musical instruments. It is older than 7,000 years. People first used
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Traditional Chinese Music
Chinese traditional music is played with instruments of the xun, chimes, xiao, sheng, pipa, guzheng, guqin, erhu, drums, and the bamboo flute. Often this music is played for ceremonies or to accompany dancers or other instruments in an orchestra. This music is also played for the background of a play or opera. It is enjoyed
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Chinese Language and Alphabet
About 1/5 of the world’s population speaks Chinese. Mandarin is the official language of China, Taiwan, and Singapore. Other Chinese languages include (in the order of which they are spoken): Wu, Cantonese, and Min. There are over 3,000 dialects of Chinese spoken in China, but only one way to write Chinese. The Chinese language has
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Chinese Travel Destinations
China is a large nation and has many interesting places to explore. You will see much of the tradition, culture and the beauty of the land by traveling to these recommended places. The Great Wall The star attraction of China is the Great Wall. This large structure was built to keep intruders from coming into China.
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Top Chinese Movies, Baby Names, Books, and the Chinese Zodiac for Kids!!!
Top Chinese Baby Names Ah-lam like an orchid An Peace Angua Peaceful Country Anmang Peaceful
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Chinese Ancient History: Dynasty’s for Kids
Early China & Xia Dynasty-10,000 BCE to 1500 BCE: Around 10,000 BCE the Chinese civilization began. There was a group called the Yangshao (yahng show) settled near the Huang He River. About 3,000 BCE, another farming group emerged, the Lungshan farming group. The Lungshan were very advanced for their time. They harvested silk and used
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Chinese learning for children
Dino Lingo Introduction to Chinese for Kids is a Mandarin Chinese language learning program where cartoon dinosaur characters introduce the most common animal words and daily phrases in Chinese Mandarin.effective Chinese teaching program for childrenChildren can quickly learn and speak Chinese, thanks to the award-winning lessons by Dino Lingo Kids Dino Lingo Chinese for Kids
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Chinese dishes – Peking/Beijing Duck
Chinese food is very popular all over the world. Most Chinese meals come with rice or noodles as well as vegetables, meat, fish, pork or chicken. Peking/Beijing Duck is probably China’s most famous food and is a tasty meal of crispy duck slices eaten on thin pancakes with a kind of dipping sauce called hoisin sauce.
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Chinese Fun Facts
Mandarin Chinese is the most spoken language in the world used every day by more than a billion people. It is the second most popular language on the internet and has the highest growth rate among the languages studied in the US and Japan. Chinese is one of the 6 languages of communication in the
How to teach kids Chinese – Learning Chinese for children
Motivation Motivation Motivation It’s extremely important that kids have the motivation to learn Chinese. How to increase their motivation is not as difficult as you might think. You can simply do the following Rewards Offer them rewards for learning extra words or phrases (e.g., a chocolate bar from Spain or South America, a trip to
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Chinese Names and Names in Chinese : The way Names are Written Read In China
According to Lauderdale and Kestenbaum (2000) Top 10 , top 20 and top 50 Chinese names are as follow Top 10 Chinese names are 1. Wong 2. Chen 3. Chan 4. Wang 5. Chang 6. Lin 7. Wu 8. Liu 9. Huang 10. Li Top 20 Chinese names are 11. Ng 12. Yu 13. Cheng
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Hoax that Circulates Once in 823 Years
Chinese people believe that only once in 823 years there can be 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays. What is more, if you know about this rare occurrence and tell it to others both you and the others would be rich! Isn’t it amazing? And guess what, this year, 2011, has 5 Fridays, Saturdays
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Famous places in China, Travel China, Great Wall, Xi’an City
There are a lot of very famous places in China. The Great Wall of China was chosen as one of the New 7 Wonders of the World in 2001 and people say you can see it from space! The Forbidden City in Beijing was a big palace for the emperors and their households, and the
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Chinese fun facts – gift giving, lucky number 8, unlucky 4
Gift giving can be a very hard activity in China! To begin with, gifts might not be accepted but this doesn’t mean that others don’t want them, it’s just that some people think that a gift should be refused three times before being accepted. Scissors, knives and anything else that could be used for cutting
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Traditional Chinese values
Traditional Chinese values are often called Confucian values because they came from the philosopher Confucius. These values emphasize being loyal to your family, husband or wife, country and friends as well as filial piety, or showing respect to parents, older relatives, and ancestors. Honesty and trustworthiness are also valued in China. The Chinese also have
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Chinese communication – greeting, smiling, frowning
There is no such language as “Chinese”, instead there is a family of Chinese languages that include Mandarin and Cantonese. Mandarin was the language that most scholars and the government used. In Mandarin, people say Ni Hao (Hello) when greeting each other, unless they are greeting someone they would like to show great respect. In
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Chinese children’s game – Red Rover
Forcing the City Gates is game that children play in China that is like Red Rover. A group of children split into two teams and each team holds hands to create a long line. These two lines face each other and a child from one team runs at and tries to break through the other
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Traditional Chinese stories and epics
China is a country of many myths and folktales. Probably the best known are the stories of Mulan and Pangu. Mulan was a brave woman who joined the army to save her old father from having to go and became known across the country for her bravery. When she was offered a very good job
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Chinese festivals, holidays and celebrations
Festivals have always been important in China, with Chinese New Year probably the most important. This festival begins on the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar and special food, clothes, decorations, and gifts are bought for good luck. This celebration ends on the 15th day of the month, which is then
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Traditional Chinese clothes
China is a very big country, so traditional clothing depended on the weather in a particular area as well as the job some did and his or her family background. Tunics, like long shirts, were very popular clothing for men and women. Women’s tunics were longer, all the way down to the ankles. When it
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Chinese food facts
Chinese food is very popular all over the world. Most Chinese meals come with rice or noodles as well as vegetables, meat, fish, pork or chicken. Peking/Beijing Duck is probably China’s most famous food and is a tasty meal of crispy duck slices eaten on thin pancakes with a kind of dipping sauce called hoisin
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Interesting facts about Chinese Culture
geography and nature China is either the third or fourth largest country in the whole world. It might seem funny that we don’t know whether it is third or fourth largest, but this is because there is land between China and India that both countries believe belong to them. If the land belongs to China,
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