My daughter loves to read Cinderella story, I’ve lost count how many times I’ve read that book to her. And every time I finished the first page (we read the Disney/Scholastic edition), she always ask what song Cinderella sings every morning. Today I asked her back, “what do you think she’s singing?” And she answered “Yi Er San Si Wu Liu Qi?” 
(= Wo de peng you zai na li?)
Now, that song was the first Chinese song she can sing completely by herself 
And that was within a few weeks after she attended her Chinese preschool class. Currently she already attended the class for 5 months (73.5 hrs). She only attend twice a week, 1.5-2 hrs each.
I’ve posted the list of her favorite Chinese songs here. She has not learn any new song from her school yet (I think they don’t do much singing during the hours she’s there), there was this one song about ‘ma yi’ that they sang while marching to the restroom, but since I’m not familiar with it and she still could not remember the complete verse, she just stopped singing to that tune Anybody know this song?
As far as the Chinese spoken language, sometimes she blurted out sentences in Chinese like “ni zuo shen me?” But she still speak mostly Indonesian. It’s interesting though that she would choose the easier to pronounce words to name things such as: She would always say ‘cao mei’ rather than ’strawberry’ and ‘xi gua’ instead of ‘watermelon’. But for other things, she use different languages at different times like ‘apple’ & ‘ping guo’
We borrowed ‘Signing Time’ dvds from the library as we begin signing with my son (currently 8.5 mo).
It’s amazing how fast my daughter is picking up new signs and she really like to use them now. We did sign with her when she was about 10 month old but stopped since she started talking. She still remember some of the signs we did and very eager to learn new signs.
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Grace
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