[caption id="attachment_1774" align="aligncenter" width="533"] "Your character looks great, Jiejie!"[/caption] We are excited to share that we will be traveling to China in the next calendar...

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...

We stepped away from the text books these past few weeks to work on learning Chinese money, yuán / 元.   We began with a presentation...

In our home, we enjoy learning about history.  It is as much a part of our homeschool curriculum as our language studies.  The kids beg...

When we first began working with Teacher Shawn  / Lǎoshī  老师, he explained that he planned to incorporate monthly cultural and cooking lessons as well. We...

[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...