Teach Chinese to Children using Children Songs
Posted by gsetio on July 30, 2007
Children songs in Chinese is a great way to introduce Chinese language to our children. We can start singing to them since they are baby. Just the same way as we sing all the lullabies and chant all those English rhymes to our babies / toddler to promote early literacy.
I didn’t know any Chinese songs at all before we enrolled our daughter to a music class at our community center. Now I know a lot of them and just want to share it with you 
Of course singing songs alone is not enough to learn a new language, but it’s a start. My website :www.earlylearning-chinese.com has the lyrics to traditional children songs in mandarin. Recent addition include vocabulary list, tips, and links to other resources.
Coming up would be ‘alphabet book’. As a Chinese learner myself (along with my children), I often don’t know what the Chinese words for common things we read in our English alphabet book. If I know the Chinese word for them, I don’t know how to read/write the Chinese characters 
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So I plan to come with vocab list for quick lookup for parents like me and some printable Chinese character for activity to do with our children (read: my daughter). Thinking of just providing the character and let her either coloring, drawing or decorating with images we could find from old magazines/online/stickers (my daughter loves stickers!!!)
Posted by: Grace
www.earlylearning-chinese.com
michele said
Hi hi…
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i saw ur site and am impressed!
i got a 5 yr old and a coming 14 mth old.
i quote you
“As a Chinese learner myself (along with my children), I often don’t know what the Chinese words for common things we read in our English alphabet book. If I know the Chinese word for them, I don’t know how to read/write the Chinese characters
So I plan to come with vocab list for quick lookup for parents like me”
i could probably chip in by providing you with the vocab of the words frequently used
so that you could add on to your printable Chinese character for activity to do with our children (read: my daughter).
you like that?
Grace said
Hi Michele
THANKS
Sure, I’d LOVE to have your help in providing frequently used vocab!
I’m glad that you like the website and I’m open to suggestions to make it better and more useful.
Jenny said
Since I’m Taiwanese and know a fair amount of Chinese (well enough to have conversation, at least), I found that watching Chinese tv shows really help a lot, too! But I realy like the music part because it does have harder phrases or whawt not!
best4future said
As a Chinese, I am very glad that more and more people are learning Chinese. I think it is good to learn Chinese, since China is growing so fast in economy and world influence right now. It will help you with some practical purposes(easy to find a job in the future, different lens to see the world, better connection to cultural root, etc).
Right now I am teaching my baby to learn Chinese, hoping she will become a bilingual in the future and be proud of her cultural root.