Big Boy and Xiao Chien Raising a boy and a Saint in English, Mandarin and French

There is a really interesting new post up at Multilingual Mania about the Affective Filter. The blogger writes about how just one small instance of another student in her Spanish class giggling at her totally devastated her confidence in speaking … Continue reading →

Here is an article in the Spectator, from the UK entitled: “Forget Mandarin. Latin is the key to success.”. Hmmm. The key to success. Now I have never thought Mandarin was the key to success either, and frankly we are … Continue reading →

When Big Boy was coming home from China, at 22 months old, I realized that he would be functionally without language in my household for a little while, as I speak English and French and he understood Mandarin. And I … Continue reading →

Great news from Half the Sky, an international charity that goes into orphanages in China and puts in child care and educational programs, finds sponsors for childen, and does other great things, like providing shelter and help for children who … Continue reading →

I just discovered a wonderful book at betterchinese.com, makers of the well-known and much-used-in-schools “My First Chinese Words” books and cd. It is a Chinese zodiac book entirely illustrated in origami by its 10 yr old author, Justin Tsin. Justin … Continue reading →

I blogged recently about the French preschooler popular animated character T’Choupi being available in book form at Best4Future bilingual bookstore. Well, they are now having a 20% off sale until Feb 5 for the Chinese New Year of the Rabbit, … Continue reading →

Well, I’ve been oogling the Trunki for several years now. One should realize as a parent that if something has a limited number of years of use, which most things do for children, other than bowls and cups (I still … Continue reading →

Originally submitted at Childbook.com   Excellent intro to Chinese phonics! By Taotao’s Mom from Montreal, Quebec, Canada on 1/26/2011 5out of 5 Pros: Clear teaching style, Familiar characters, Entertaining, Repetition of pinyin song, Engaging, Live action scenarios Cons: A few … Continue reading →

Today, through following a comment (yay comment subscriptions) for asiamommy.com’s post on ereadbooks and touch reading pens, I discovered both a shopping site and a wonderful new blog I was unaware of by a mother named Lina Dickson who is … Continue reading →

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. … Continue reading →