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 Colin Goh | Aug 24, 2023 | Child Development, Blog, Creativity, Drawing, Education, Global Competence, Imagination, Parenting
The Creative Child When YB (short for ‘Yakuza Baby’, my daughter’s nickname) was in first grade, she came home crying one day, because all through her school day, she had been dreaming up an experiment to turn the dried leaves she had collected in the...
by Colin Goh | Aug 5, 2023 | Bilingual, Blog, Child Development, Creativity, Dim Sum Warriors, Diversity, Doodle Date, Drawing, Education, Events, Food, Global Competence, Imagination, Language
Celebrate Singapore’s National Day In Multiple Languages! What do children think are uniquely Singaporean activities? Can you imagine Singaporean food characters “choping” a seat at the kopi tiam? See what imaginative and delicious...
by Colin Goh | Jul 13, 2023 | Doodle Date, Bilingual, Blog, Child Development, Creativity, Drawing, Education, Global Competence, Imagination, Language
This National Day: Join Our Multilingual Doodle Date! Let’s get creative with all things Singaporean in this special Doodle Date. Throw crazy Singapore-themed prompts at our artist and we’ll learn what to call your creations in English, Chinese,...
by yenyendotnet | Jun 2, 2023 | Bilingual, Blog, Chinese, Chinese Culture, Chinese Traditions, Diversity, Education, Events, Food, Global Competence, Language
Rice Dumplings—ZOMG! Zongzi! 粽子！ 粽子Zòngzi—often called ‘rice dumplings’ in the West or some variation of “bak chang (肉粽)” in Southeast Asia—are a quintessential part of Duanwu, even though Chinese people eat these packets of rice and various...
by yenyendotnet | Jun 2, 2023 | Bilingual, Blog, Chinese, Chinese Culture, Chinese Traditions, Diversity, Education, Events, Food, Global Competence, Language
Do you know it’s not correct to wish people “Happy Duanwu Festival” or “端午节快乐”？ Instead, wish people 端午节安康 (Duānwǔ jié ānkāng) “May you have a peaceful and healthy Duanwu Festival” This is because since ancient times, this period is considered...
