As I have mentioned in the past, we generally meet with the kids' language teacher twice a week.  Because we homeschool, we also travel a...

[caption id="attachment_1470" align="aligncenter" width="533"] I am from China / Wǒ láizì zhōngguó 我来自中国[/caption] In My First Chinese Reader, lesson number four is called What is...

I feel very strongly that learning a foreign language takes time.  In order to become fluent in a second (or subsequent) language, one must devote...

[caption id="attachment_1636" align="aligncenter" width="533"] Meili reading from My First Chinese Reader, "Do You Like the Color Red?" (Volume 2 Lesson 13)[/caption] Color words are perhaps...

[caption id="attachment_1463" align="aligncenter" width="475"] I am in grade two / Wǒ zài èr niánjí 我在二年级[/caption] Jiejie is moving rather quickly through the lessons of Volume...

The activities my daughter does with each lesson vary to some extent depending upon the content of the lesson. Generally, she always makes flashcards, reads...

As we have continued on our journey to learn Mandarin, another major goal that our tutor, Teacher Shawn (老师: Lǎoshī), and I share is that the...

Hope everyone is enjoying the summer so far! We're doing pretty well here at Better Chinese. For those of you who don't know, we recently...

11-year old Justin Tsin, an author of "What Would You Imagine?" has written another popular origami book, "The Chinese Zodiac: Who Am I?". This book...