by Woo Yen Yen | Apr 6, 2021 | Bilingual, Child Development, Comics, Creativity, Drawing, Education, Imagination, Language, Yen Yen
Making Something Out of Nothing My daughter loves to draw. (Her nickname is Yakuza Baby—or YB for short– because she was born while my husband and I were watching a Japanese gangster film. It’s really quite a story for another time.) Her drawing journey...
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 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 Woo Yen Yen | Dec 1, 2020 | Bilingual, Blog, Education, Yen Yen
by Woo Yen Yen Why is it important to cross invisible language barriers? Why is it important to learn a “minority” language or a dialect? My daughter YB (short for ‘Yakuza Baby’, the nickname we gave her because she was born while Colin and I were watching...
by Woo Yen Yen | Nov 10, 2020 | Bilingual, Blog, Dim Sum Warriors, Education, Events, Yen Yen
How to teach Chinese to my kid when my own Chinese is so bad? by Woo Yen Yen An English teacher’s journey towards getting her daughter to learn Chinese. In this four-part series, former New York-based professor and “ang moh pai” (Western-educated) English teacher Dr....
