My Early Start: Learning Chinese tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1652000 2009-12-15T12:24:44-08:00 A collection of thoughts on children learning Chinese, moms building a business, and raising culturally aware and bilingual kids. TypePad MyEarlyStartLearningChinesehttp://feedburner.google.com <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myearlystart.typepad.com/my_early_start/2009/12/your-kids-and-you-will-probably-love-the-videos-from-singapores-speak-mandarin-campaign.html" /> <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://myearlystart.typepad.com/my_early_start/2009/12/your-kids-and-you-will-probably-love-the-videos-from-singapores-speak-mandarin-campaign.html" thr:count="1" thr:updated="2009-12-16T01:16:23-08:00" /> <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e552610b8c88340120a75501a1970b</id> <published>2009-12-15T12:24:44-08:00</published> <updated>2009-12-15T12:24:44-08:00</updated> <summary>Your kids (and you) will probably love the videos from Singapore's "Speak Mandarin" campaign.</summary> <author> <name>Mandarin Mom</name> </author> <content type="html" xml:lang="en-US" xml:base="http://myearlystart.typepad.com/my_early_start/"> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Your kids (and you) will probably love the videos from Singapore&#39;s &quot;Speak Mandarin&quot; campaign.<br/></p> <p class="asset asset-video"> <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3_eGcbQ-cKQ&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3_eGcbQ-cKQ&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object> </p> </div> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MyEarlyStartLearningChinese?a=Jd-Id8xS_yo:9IQVn_VBgK8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MyEarlyStartLearningChinese?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MyEarlyStartLearningChinese?a=Jd-Id8xS_yo:9IQVn_VBgK8:bcOpcFrp8Mo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MyEarlyStartLearningChinese?d=bcOpcFrp8Mo" border="0"></img></a> </div></content> </entry> <entry> <title>Look who speaks Mandarin! tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e552610b8c88340128764ca80a970c 2009-12-12T21:56:54-08:00 2009-12-12T21:58:13-08:00 It seems more and more people in North America are having their children learn Mandarin in school. I saw this article on line today, which I found interesting. Willow Smith in Norway Mandarin Mom It seems more and more people in North America are having their children learn Mandarin in school.  I saw this article on line today, which I found interesting.  <a href="http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/willow-smith-to-address-nobel-concert-in-mandarin_1125452">Willow Smith in Norway</a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MyEarlyStartLearningChinese?a=v7R5Y3ddoKo:N8VMZqmaIOA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MyEarlyStartLearningChinese?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MyEarlyStartLearningChinese?a=v7R5Y3ddoKo:N8VMZqmaIOA:bcOpcFrp8Mo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MyEarlyStartLearningChinese?d=bcOpcFrp8Mo" border="0"></img></a> </div> Learn Chinese "head, shoulder, knees, and toes" song tag:typepad.com,2003:post-67595209 2009-06-03T11:13:34-07:00 2009-06-03T11:12:51-07:00 Some customers of the Early Start Mandarin dvds have asked for the lyrics of the "heads, shoulders, knees, and toes" song in pin yin. We've posted under the Resources tab on our website, MyEarlyStart.com. The song is in Volume 4:... Mandarin Mom <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Some customers of the Early Start Mandarin dvds have asked for the lyrics of the "heads, shoulders, knees, and toes" song in pin yin.  We've posted under the Resources tab on our website, <a href="http://www.myearlystart.com">MyEarlyStart.com</a>.  The song is in Volume 4: My Healthy Body,  and we've asked Hope to sing it again here.  Enjoy! <object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dUHfjw9HyBA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dUHfjw9HyBA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425"></embed></object></p></div><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MyEarlyStartLearningChinese?a=E6KbxwN0FB0:rixvszWCVVo:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MyEarlyStartLearningChinese?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MyEarlyStartLearningChinese?a=E6KbxwN0FB0:rixvszWCVVo:bcOpcFrp8Mo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MyEarlyStartLearningChinese?d=bcOpcFrp8Mo" border="0"></img></a> </div>