While babies attempt to listen, imitate and utter the sounds heard in their language environment, hearing key words spoken correctly in various linguistic contexts helps cement the learning process of organizing words in the correct order, in another word, the grammatical concepts.

How to help babies acquire languages? | September 18, 2009 10:00 am | Comments (0)

As the old saying goes, walk by one and talk by two. At month 14, DD was already a confident walker and professional stairs-climber. As before, she began to figure ways to improve her speed or just wanted to try something different. We watched her explorations with great interests and threw in our two cents when needed.

Baby's Training | September 11, 2009 12:56 pm | Comments (1)

On DD’s one-year birthday, grandmas told me soon I would notice some signs that my baby—small and cute though she is—wouldn’t be a baby any longer. I understood, since I already glimpsed her growing sense of independence, emerging negativity, primitive temper tantrums and sprouting my-way-or-highway-mind-set.

However, I never expected these behaviors would constitute the theme of her second year.

Baby's Growth | September 3, 2009 12:05 pm | Comments (0)

Today I am going to teach you how to say bottom, leg, knee and foot in Chinese.

chinese language for young children, Chinese learning for babies, How to name body parts in Chinese?, learn chinese for free | August 26, 2009 9:23 am | Comments (0)

The more babies hear the language spoken around them and to them, the better and faster they acquire that language.

How to help babies acquire languages? | August 21, 2009 10:45 am | Comments (0)

Walking, the most challenging large motor skill, seemed to be an easy milestone for DD. Within one month, she could manage to walk by herself with no support or help. Walking enabled her more mobility and freedom. It also helps build confidence and independence. Her baby training this month concentrated on walking practice, but also included language training and cognitive cultivation.

Baby's Training | August 11, 2009 9:30 am | Comments (0)

Once the baby has a taste of freedom, it will be hard to hold her back. That is absolutely true. Once DD, a risk-taker, tasted the freedom of walking, it was difficult to prevent her from toddling. During month 13, she continued to make progress, physically, emotionally, socially and cognitively.

Baby's Growth | August 6, 2009 11:13 am | Comments (0)

Our body is such an amazing machine that all subsystems cooperate harmoniously together, while each of them works perfect on its own. It is the most intricate, magnificent and flawless design as far as we know in the universe.

Why don’t we take good care of it from the very beginning?

Back to today’s lesson, I am going to teach you how to read and pronounce these following words in Chinese: head, neck, back and tummy.

chinese language for young children, Chinese learning for babies, How to name body parts in Chinese?, learn chinese for free | July 29, 2009 1:18 pm | Comments (0)

Learning Chinese will give the younger generation a sharp-edge advantage in every aspect of their future life, strategically, culturally, and practically.

Bringing up Baby Bilingual, chinese for children, chinese language for young children, Chinese learning for babies, teaching young children chinese | July 22, 2009 8:46 am | Comments (0)

How to help babies acquire languages? Is this a third million-dollar question? Oh, yes!

Let me share with you what I researched, studied, tested and practiced in this new series: how to help babies acquire languages? If you agree, disagree or simply have something to say, please feel free to leave your comments.

How to help babies acquire languages? | July 16, 2009 9:31 am | Comments (0)