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s lamp village some words are outdated like eskimo there are a very few verbs to cook to cry to whisper to weigh and also a very few adjectives and adverbs empty uphill the images are arranged by alphabetical order of english word and at the back of the book is a list of all the words in pinyin by alphabetical order with english equivalent but no simplified or page it is best used for a child or learner to browse through to learn new vocabulary at an easy pace without being overwhelmed legalese leave a comment posted in uncategorized my review of dragon dance by joan holub a chinese new year lift the flap book softcover posted on january 31 2013 1 comment originally submitted at childbook com what do you do on chinese new year it s chinese new year and there are so many fun things to do shop at the outdoor market for fresh flowers eat new year s dinner with the whole family receive red envelopes from grandma and grandpa and best of all watch the spectacular new year s dragon dance by joan holub a chinese new year lift the flap book softcover entertaining interactive book by taotao s mom from saskatoon sk on 1 30 2013 4 out of 5 pros engaging colorful illustrations entertaining moving parts best uses education entertainment celebrating chinese newyr describe yourself adoptive mom elementary chineselearner single mom was this a gift no i bought this for my son adopted from china when he was about 3 years old he is now seven and still loves this book we take it out every year around chinese new years and go through it it shows the different traditions of cleaning sweeping the house new clothes as well as red envelopes and the dragon dance each page has a moving part which seem a bit fragile but have stood up to my boy s handling over the years there is a turning wheel at the back that shows what animal is your zodiac for your year of birth unfortunately the chinese new year s greeting in the book is cantonese and not mandarin which we are learning beautiful full color illustrations are very lively descriptive and engaging good for preschoolers and young school age children legalese 1 comment posted in uncategorized affective filter and language learning posted on march 4 2011 5 comments 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 spanish for years this emotional block kept her from expressing herself in spoken spanish though her written spanish was excellent indeed how you feel emotionally about speaking a second or third language makes all the difference in your fluency i hate making mistakes out loud indeed it is one thing that blocks my musical learning one can silently work on chinese grammar but it is impossible to learn piano or guitar without everyone within hearing distance listening to your progress or lack of it when i was learning french i took classes in which we had to write a lot and i read a lot but especially when i moved here to quebec i kept my mouth shut i had all these grammar rules in my head vocab masculine feminine verb tenses it was all just too much to get right before the conversation topic changed people saw me carrying around la peste and couldn t believe someone who could hardly put two words together could ever be reading and understanding such meaty literature but no it wasn t my comprehension that was lacking it was the emotional daring do to throw myself into the verbal fray fortunately by working at burger king with francophones who had often not even finished highschool and being taught to swear like a sailor or a hot fry oil burnt b k employee in quebec joual i got over my fear of making errors in french heck native francophones butcher the language so much i couldn t do much worse i finally realized of course they butcher it in native speaker ways and i butchered it in newbie 2nd language learner ways but still it got me over that affective filter i wonder how much of my son s refusal to speak chinese is affective filter indeed he understood french very well for at least two years before speaking it voluntarily he d reply in english the correct answers to questions in french only when he was surrounded by unilingual francophone children in preschool daily did he overcome his reluctance and start to come out with impromptu french i am hoping the saturday afternoon chinese classes will help with his emotions re chinese he will voluntarily throw himself into hearty renditions of liang zhi lao hu two tigers song but hardly utter a word when asked how old he is for instance and i think it is because of his confidence in the words and phrasing of the song perhaps the chinese class will help or perhaps it will hinder taking just one giggling student to devastate him for years lots of native chinese speaking at home children in his class but it is worth a shot myself for some reason i seem to have gotten over most of my stage fright re speaking foreign languages out loud the french is used daily so now it is more when i need to write well that i feel this affective filter in french in chinese perhaps it is because i am learning it at home and most people are amazed i know any chinese at all native speakers are often incredibly nice towards me no matter how bad my attempt at their language perhaps it will come still when i speak well enough to realize just how bad my chinese is we ll see do you have stories of losing confidence or gaining it in a second or third language 5 comments posted in adults chinese french kids language learning tagged affective filter bilingual chinese confidence foreign languages french learning languages self confidence speaking a second language trilingual learn latin not mandarin posted on february 25 2011 2 comments 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 doing it for issues of keeping big boy s cultural heritage and ability to interact with other chinese people as he grows up not so he can rise to the top of the class but i understand that many are jumping on the mandarin bandwagon in hopes of upping their child s chances in the business world at least they might be able to be foremen if china invades and takes over the us and canada i think that is silly since most chinese learn better english than our children will ever learn mandarin but i do think that mandarin or more correctly chinese since the writing system of characters is not mandarin but rather common to all the chinese languages from taiwan to beijing to jiaozuo and has hardly changed except for simplification in thousands of years does help develop thinking abilities and especially the written language which is highly visual and very different from our own romanized languages i also think that it is probably true that latin with its conjugasions and verb forms sorry i don t know enough about latin to properly praise it would help with paying attention to language understanding grammar verb tenses etc i am sure that its rigours would help the mind in the same way that math or music help the mind by giving instruction in something with discipline and structure much the same way i expect and see results of my son s karate class to influence his physical and mental self control also we cannot forget that many words in most european languages stem from latin as well as more technical scientific terms in all these languages i do wonder why the writer needs to take a jab at chinese which is also great and esperanto which can be very practical and fun why forget one language or discipline for another do we need to say forget the flute learn piano or forget biology learn physics i am sure that the more languages you study the more your mind is going to be exercised the more people you can communicate with the better your language skills will become so here s for latin and chinese and farsi and arabic and swedish and yiddish and engish and finnish and on and on study what grabs and impassions you btw the comments on that article are as good or better than the article itself dig in 2 comments posted in adults chinese education kids language learning tagged chinese language for success latin latin classes learning language mandarin second languages bilingual marriage hearing and deaf posted on february 23 2011 2 comments baby signing time dvds 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 was also intrigued by the use of sign language esp asl with babies and toddlers so i bought the first volumes of baby signing time dvds and it was great i had no idea at that time that he would be slow to actually articulate in english or french or chinese and we d both be frustrated with the communication walls created by his limited vocabulary of wawa mama ayi mah meh nah but the signing time helped both give him english vocabulary all signs are accompanied by drawings and photos of the actual object or action of the word presented and by both repeated clearly spoken and written on screen english equivalents and a way to clarify his utterances i would get nah and instead of doing a guessing game nuts no nah dog no nah tired nooo naaaah i would know right off what he meant nah accompanied by sign for bus oh bus big boy bus see the big bus and we were both happy signing time dvd we ended up accumulating the complete set of series one of signing time as well as the first set and eventually second set of baby signing time and a few of the volume two signing time dvds i like them less as they teach way fewer words per dvd and have only one new song per dvd vs 4 6 songs per dvd for the first volume of dvds and we both loved them the baby signing time and signing time theme songs were a part of our daily lives and i used sign language to communicate with him often both when trying to understand him and when we were unable to hear each other ie across the room in a loud setting someplace where speaking to a child would disrupt the adult conversation and i also used the signs to introduce french vocabulary ie signing shoes while saying souliers instead of using verbal english to introduce the french equivalents i had hoped that we would really keep this up as of course the primary reason for the signing time dvds is the hope that hearing people would have at least the rudiments of asl to be able to interact with deaf asl children and adults and open up friendships unfortunately what with daily life concentrating on english speech therapy french in school and chinese acquisition the asl has fallen a bit by the wayside though it remains an interest and then today i read the blog of a family who is adopting two little deaf boys from henan the province my jiaozuo born son hails from they have three children already but they seem the ideal family for these little deaf kids as the mother is hearing but the father is deaf so the family is functionally bilingual english asl i think this is fantastic i am very excited for their new family additions yay for more little boys coming home from china to their new family lives and also for the idea of a bilingual deaf hearing family the brown seven anyways you can read about their bilingual marriage here deaf and hearing marriage part one here part two here part three and here part four it is fascinating to read and they face a lot of issues of parents who don t speak a common language and more so since even in a language i cannot understand i can often hear the inflection of voice ie when kids are backlipping or someone is angry even if i am hearing and not seeing unlike a deaf person who if they don t see the interaction will not necessarily know that extra information if someone just translates after the fact or repeats in front of them take a look and tell me what you think both about hearing people using asl deaf and hearing relations and families where the parents don t speak each other s language or one speaks the language of the second but not vice versa and i wish the brown seven a short wait and a quick and safe trip to china to meet their little boys 2 comments posted in adoption big boy dvds language learning parenting sn tagged adoption american sign language asl bilingual hearing deaf bilingual marriage bilingual parents bilingual relationship china adoption deaf children deaf parents hearing signing time sn adoption special needs adoption chinese gov t joins with half the sky posted on february 4 2011 leave a comment 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 were affected by the earthquakes in china a couple years ago children helped by half the sky they have been working together with the chinese government which now wants to implement half the sky inspired programs in all the orphanages swi in china and will be paying for the training and programs wow fantastic news for all the children in swi in china if you want to help out you can sponsor a child partially or in whole they have links to donate from many countries sponsor a child with half the sky my son and i pay about 29 cdn per month to help sponsor a little boy who was born in feb 2007 and we get regular updates on his education and development it is very rewarding here is an example of the sponsorship pdf report we receive regularly child in half the sky classes but even if you can t help out i hope you ll join me in rejoicing at the new initiatives together with the chinese government and the china center for child welfare and adoption formerly ccaa with new programs in 60 swi per year they hope to have all the orphanages in china covered within 5 yrs with the children getting proper care nutrition stimulation education etc fantastic leave a comment posted in charity chinese kids sn uncategorized tagged ccaa charity in china china chinese government chinese orphanages half the sky orphanage charity sponsor a child swi who am i chinese zodiac origami book posted on february 2 2011 4 comments 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 is already an accomplished book creator his first book what would you imagine won the 2009 mom s choice award outstanding young author illustrator and children s picture book bilingual origami rooster by justin tsin he hails from san josé california and is currently doi...