It’s the Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋节 | 中秋節 (zhōngqiū jié), one of the most beloved Chinese celebrations—where we eat mooncakes (now available in a bewildering variety of flavours), sip tea, recite poetry and admire the moon. If you’re in Singapore and...
It’s a first for us—and maybe even the world—a MULTILINGUAL DOODLE DATE! We’re doing this specially for Singapore’s National Day—to bring some cheer to this very, very tough year. What’s a Doodle Date? It’s our super-popular livestream session...
Things We Wish We Could Do, But Can’t—Because of Covid Several Saturdays a month, we run free Doodle Dates, where kids suggest things for me to draw based on a theme—usually a mashup of food and something—and then Yen Yen and Hsiao Laoshi chat about what...
Summer school holidays are just around the corner… so here’s a helpful list of Chinese movies your kids might like—provided by Jia Yu 姐姐, a Masters student in Taiwan who sometimes helps out during our Doodle Dates! 1. On Happiness Road 幸福路上 (Xìng...
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...
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