Year of the Monkey is just around the corner. Let’s send out our best wishes and New Year greetings. You can make a card, write...

On many occasions when I have mentioned in conversation that my children are learning Mandarin Chinese, the response is, "Really? How do you do that?...

Last week, the kids and I read a post written by a young man, Timothy Doner, who has taught himself 20 languages. In his post and...

This past week, my kiddos have been working with a children's book by Hu Yong Yi titled, Good Morning, China. It is a delightful short...

We live in Northern California and have the opportunity to travel to San Francisco periodically - generally accompanying the kids' father on business trips but...

In my last article, Implementing a Task Chain to Improve Integrated Language Skills Part One, I talked about how to design a task chain in...

Teaching your child a world language can be difficult, especially when it is a language that is not heard of or practiced every day. It...

In my previous blogs (Activities for Elementary Students, Formative Assessment for First Graders and Task Design), I used several tasks as examples to show how...

端午节 (Duān Wǔ Jié) or the Dragon Boat Festival is a popular festival celebrated in June. The tradition of eating 粽子 (zòngzi) is based on...