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 Colin Goh | Dec 28, 2020 | Bilingual, Blog, Dim Sum Warriors, Events, Imagination, Language
Happy New Year to all our friends and fans! Wish your family and friends—in fact, anybody!—a very happy new year with these adorable eCards! Available in English, simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese here: Dim Sum Warriors eCards | Dim Sum...
by Colin Goh | Dec 23, 2020 | Bilingual, Blog, Dim Sum Warriors, Food, Home, Language
Merry Christmas to all our friends and fans! It’s always tickled us that in Chinese 圣诞 (shèngdàn: Christmas) sounds almost like 生蛋 (shēng dàn: laying eggs)—which tells you about the kind of goofballs we are! Hope all of you can take a yolk this Yuletide season!...
by Colin Goh | Dec 21, 2020 | Bilingual, Blog, Food, Language, 吃
Happy Winter Solstice! 冬至快乐！冬至快樂！ It’s the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, and people in China or of ethnic Chinese heritage everywhere are celebrating 冬至 Dōngzhì, which literally means “Winter’s Extreme”. The winter or hibernal...
by Bayu | Oct 27, 2020 | App, App Development, Bilingual, Blog, Dim Sum Warriors, Education, Home, Language
We have known this for a while now—bilingualism is great for the brain! The more we think across two or more languages, the more exercise our brains get! This CNN article says that bilingualism delays the onset of Alzheimer’s, and does a lot of stimulate brain...
