by Colin Goh | Feb 23, 2021 | Bilingual, Blog, Comics, Dim Sum Warriors, Education, Food
Check out our video of yet another crazy Dim Sum Warriors Bilingual Doodle Date—where our artist Colin draws the wacky things kids suggest, while former professor Yen Yen and certified Taiwanese schoolteacher Teacher Hsiao help to translate them into Chinese....
by Colin Goh | Feb 11, 2021 | Home
Thanks for Joining Our Chinese New Year Reunion Doodle Date 新春【画】团圆！ THANK YOU for all your creative ideas! We had a blast creating these cartoons with all of you on Saturday 6th February, 2021! Thank you and a very Happy Year of the Ox to everyone who joined us,...
by Woo Yen Yen | Jan 29, 2021 | Bilingual, Blog, Comics, Dim Sum Warriors, Education, Language, Yen Yen
I was working as a Professor of Education in New York when I started looking for a solution to teach my daughter Chinese (You can find Part 1 of that post here). I really wanted to raise a bilingual and bi-literate kid! And I didn’t want my daughter to merely be able...
by Colin Goh | Jan 19, 2021 | Home
THE 15 COMMANDMENTS OF CHINESE NEW YEAR! Heard the song ‘The 12 Days of Christmas’? Well, we just learned that there’s a Chinese equivalent! Though true to stereotype, it’s not about your true love giving you lords a-leaping or geese a-laying or anything, but rather,...
by Woo Yen Yen | Dec 28, 2020 | Bilingual, Blog, Dim Sum Warriors, Education, Imagination, Language, Yen Yen
In a previous post, I had talked about how hard it was for me to find suitable Chinese teaching and learning solutions for my daughter when we were living in New York. (See: How do I teach my kids Chinese at home? – Part 1 | Dim Sum Warriors) Experience the Target...
by Woo Yen Yen | Dec 28, 2020 | Bilingual, Blog, Dim Sum Warriors, Education, Imagination, Language, Yen Yen
When we were living in New York, I found myself looking for Chinese-learning materials for my daughter (nicknamed ‘YB’, short for ‘Yakuza Baby’, because she was born while we were watching a Japanese gangster movie). Every time I was back in...
by Colin Goh | Dec 28, 2020 | Bilingual, Blog, Dim Sum Warriors, Events, Imagination, Language
Happy New Year to all our friends and fans! Wish your family and friends—in fact, anybody!—a very happy new year with these adorable eCards! Available in English, simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese here: Dim Sum Warriors eCards | Dim Sum...
by Colin Goh | Dec 23, 2020 | Bilingual, Blog, Dim Sum Warriors, Food, Home, Language
Merry Christmas to all our friends and fans! It’s always tickled us that in Chinese 圣诞 (shèngdàn: Christmas) sounds almost like 生蛋 (shēng dàn: laying eggs)—which tells you about the kind of goofballs we are! Hope all of you can take a yolk this Yuletide season!...
by Colin Goh | Dec 21, 2020 | Bilingual, Blog, Food, Language, 吃
Happy Winter Solstice! 冬至快乐！冬至快樂！ It’s the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, and people in China or of ethnic Chinese heritage everywhere are celebrating 冬至 Dōngzhì, which literally means “Winter’s Extreme”. The winter or hibernal...
by Woo Yen Yen | Dec 15, 2020 | Home
How to Improve Kids’ Chinese? by Woo Yen Yen It was a joy and delight chatting online with creative folks from different disciplines at the “Speak Mandarin, Spark Creativity” Symposium organized by Singapore’s Speak Mandarin Campaign on Wednesday, December 9th....
