Over the past couple years, I’ve been working on a new book. I’m excited to share that it’ll be a seek-and-find book and that it’ll be out this year. If you’re interested in being an Advance Reader and sharing your feedback, please sign up to provide Advance Reader Feedback.
We finally did it – we signed up for LingoAce. This is something I had wanted to do for months, but the sign-up challenges just seemed insurmountable. And, as I mentioned earlier, I was worried that if issues came up post sign-up, they would be a nightmare to resolve. LingoAce does advertise (on their website) …
“If flamingos turn pink when they eat so much shrimp, why don’t cows turn green when they eat so much grass?” As parents, we’ve encountered a lot of thought-provoking – and often fun – questions. Some have been easier to answer than others. Some are asked by our kids, others are ones we’ve asked ourselves. …
As American-Born Chinese, we don’t speak Mandarin. However, my older son learned Mandarin in preschool and we feel passionately about giving him an opportunity to continue learning. So I was excited to hear about LingoAce from other parents at his school. LingoAce is an online Chinese learning focused on little kids, and I met a …
LingoAce sign-up Secrets – An English-speaker experience Read More »
My 3-year-old made green onion pancakes for our dinner the other day. And I have to say, they came out pretty well. I love saying that! Anyhow, a lot of friends have asked about our pancake-making, so I decided to write about it. We started making green onion pancakes about a year ago, when my …
I’d posted a review on TrustPilot after my sign-up experience, which took months and a lot of effort. Eventually, someone from LingoAce contacted me and handheld me through the sign-up experience. We felt pretty comfortable with the actual lesson, because Grandma had listened in on one class and felt it matched what my son needed. …
Storytime has really highlighted how little Chinese I read and write. For the past few years, I’ve mostly faked storytime. Every night. I take an English favorite, like Goodnight Moon or The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and I translate as I go along, on the fly. There may be a word here or there that I …
Welcome! My hope is to find others who are passionate about bilingual education and having more Cantonese learning materials, especially for children, and I hope my work plays even a tiny role in doing so. I’d love to find people to partner with and bounce ideas off. So to start off my first blog post, …
A Cantonese picture book for those who don’t speak Cantonese Read More »
