Ministries of Education all over the world are racing to equip children with competencies that are needed for the 21st century: critical thinking, communicating, collaborating, and inventive or creative thinking. Let’s talk about “creativity”. We’ve had the privilege...
Does Learning Languages Automatically Make You Globally Competent? Key Differences Parents Who Want to Raise Bilingual Kids Should Know Dim Sum Warriors co-creator Dr Woo Yen Yen shows that for kids learning languages, there are better ways than many existing methods...
Children’s Art: How to keep them motivated? After I write the piece on “Why is Drawing Important for Children’s Development”, several parents contacted me to ask about their children’s art: “How do we keep our children inspired and engaged in art-making?”,...
Increase Reading & Language Learning Motivation: One Simple Trick Reading aloud to children is a simple but highly effective strategy to help kids fall in love with reading and motivate them to learn languages—but there’s an art to it. We have heard too many...
To celebrate Singapore’s National Day, we’ve come up with a quiz on Singapore’s distinct strain of Mandarin Chinese, which we call 新加坡华语 (Xīnjiāpō Huáyǔ). It’s pretty similar to mainland China’s 普通话(Pǔtōnghuà) and Taiwan’s 國語...
There are so many Chinese learning resources out there – how do we choose? It’s important to know what you’re getting because it’s such an investment of time and money. The worst situation is to pay for something that’s not used. We...
Guest contributor: Jocelyn Sara Lim-Tan is a seasoned teacher and education researcher and the mom of Jude and Joshua. In this piece, she shares her tips for building a daily routine to boost Chinese language learning for her bilingual children. Tip #1 What We...
8 questions that were put to the 4 mommy-blogger panelists during our recent Instagram Live session on the topic “Raising Bilingual Children (Without Resentment)”. The footage above was edited from the Instagram Live session on the Dim Sum Warriors...
端午节: Dragon Boats, Drowning, Dumplings, Demons and Disease 8 Essential Things to Know About the Dragon Boat Festival! Think you know all about the Dragon Boat Festival? Dumplings, dragon-shaped boats and poets tossing themselves into rivers? There’s so much more...
Jacqueline is the mom of 7-year-old Isaac. I spoke to her and this is her genuine feedback about the difference Dim Sum Warriors has made to Isaac’s attitude towards learning Mandarin. Our relationship with Chinese is not great Jacqueline: My 7-year-old, Isaac,...
A Special Bilingual Story for Mother’s Day! We came up with this special bilingual story for Mother’s Day, featuring the Bao family! It’ll be up in the Dim Sum Warriors app soon, but we thought we’d give you a sneak preview in video...
Happy Mother’s Day! In Chinese, that’s 母亲节快乐 (mǔqīn jié kuàilè)！ For this special day, we’ve made a list of 成语 (chéngyǔ) Chinese Idioms for Mother’s Day along with interesting short clips that you and your kids might enjoy! 6 Chinese Idioms for...
