by yenyendotnet | Nov 8, 2023 | Home, Bilingual, Blog, Education
What’s “Sticky” About Learning Chinese the Bilingual Way? By Dr. Woo Yen Yen: Did you know that the English word “wear” is expressed in different ways in Mandarin, depending on what you’re wearing? As someone who grew up not being strong in Mandarin...
by yenyendotnet | Oct 11, 2023 | App, Bilingual, Blog, Books, Child Development, Chinese, Creativity, Education, Parenting, Yen Yen
Halloween Family Fun With Cosplay! Coming from Singapore, I didn’t really care about Halloween – to me it was just a highly commercialized holiday involving too much candy that was celebrated mainly by expatriates and poseurs. Who knew that Halloween...
by Colin Goh | Aug 30, 2023 | Doodle Date, Bilingual, Blog, Child Development, Chinese, Chinese Culture, Chinese Traditions, Creativity, Diversity, Drawing, Education, Events, Food, Global Competence, Imagination, Language
Join Our Mid-Autumn Festival Doodle Date! Throw your ideas for loony lunar cartoons at our cartoonist, then draw them along with him as you learn useful Mandarin terms and fascinating facts about the Mid-Autumn Festival like: 🐸 Did 嫦娥 Cháng’é become a toad? 🐶...
by yenyendotnet | Aug 30, 2023 | Bilingual, Blog, Chinese, Chinese Culture, Chinese Traditions, Drawing, Education, Events, Food, Imagination, Language
Why do we eat mooncakes during 中秋节 the Mid-Autumn Festival? Eating mooncakes 月饼 (yuèbǐng) and pomelos 柚子 (yòuzi) while sipping tea as you admire the full moon 赏月 (shǎng yuè) are the most traditional things you can do during the Mid-Autumn Festival. The most...
by yenyendotnet | Aug 30, 2023 | Bilingual, Blog, Chinese, Chinese Culture, Chinese Traditions, Drawing, Education, Events, Food, Imagination, Language
1. Chang’e 嫦娥 the Moon Goddess Probably the most famous of all the Chinese moon legends, 嫦娥 Cháng’é (pronounced “Chang Er“) is worshipped by some during the Mid-Autumn Festival as the Goddess of the Moon. In fact, the lunar probes sent by the People’s Republic of...
by yenyendotnet | Aug 30, 2023 | Bilingual, Blog, Chinese, Chinese Culture, Chinese Traditions, Drawing, Education, Events, Food, Imagination, Language
How long is the mid-Autumn Festival? What is it? Imagine a festival that brings together the magic of a full moon and the joy of celebrating the harvest – that’s the Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as 中秋节 (Zhōngqiū jié) in Chinese. It’s like a big lunar...
