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Bringing Chinese Home

Bringing Chinese Home. Introduction. Basic, even if small, foundation in understanding Chinese gives parents confidence Lots that parents can and should do to help their children with Chinese. Learn Pinyin. Be able to follow along as child reads

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Bringing Chinese Home

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  1. Bringing Chinese Home

  2. Introduction • Basic, even if small, foundation in understanding Chinese gives parents confidence • Lots that parents can and should do to help their children with Chinese.

  3. Learn Pinyin • Be able to follow along as child reads • Get character AND character/pinyin versions of classroom fluency practices • Read pinyin to sing songs together “Pinyin” is the standard romanization system used for Mandarin

  4. “Happy Birthday To You” No tones needed when singing! zhunishengrikuai le (repeat 4x) 祝你生日快 乐 Literally: Wish you birth/life day happy When spoken, add tones: zhùnǐshēngrìkuàilè

  5. Complete list of all Pinyin sounds https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-pinyin-chart.php

  6. Tongue Twister Pinyin Read-a-long Practice 鸟岛是岛, niáodǎoshìdǎo, Bird Island is an island; 鸟岛有鸟。 niáodǎoyóuniǎo。 Bird Island has birds. 鸟岛的 鸟多得数不清了。 niáodǎo de niǎoduō de shǔbùqīngle。 The birds on Bird Island are countless. 要想到鸟岛, yàoxiǎngdàoniáodǎo, If you wish to go to Bird Island, 一定要爱鸟。 yīdìngyàoàiniǎo。 you must love birds. 你不爱小鸟, nǐbúàixiáoniǎo, If you don't love small birds, 就别到鸟岛。 jiùbiédàoniáodǎo。 don't go to Bird Island.

  7. Decoding Characters Some characters are based on drawings or concepts 龜 山 火 上下 Above: turtle, mountain, fire up, down Right: door/gate

  8. Decoding Characters Characters are usually combinations: Two drawings or two meanings... 家牢 明森 Characters are likely a Sound/Meaning combination Ex: Have the sound “gu” from their古 part: 估咕姑故 固 菇 蛄 鈷 家=roof + pig = home/family 牢 = roof +cow = pen/prison 明= sun+moon=bright, light 森=wood+wood+wood =forest

  9. Decode characters together • Ask, “What is the bushou? “(bùshǒu “Radical”) The radical meaning woman 女 is in words for mother 妈, marry 嫁, little sister 妹 , good 好 Others: eye, water, power, knife, insect, dry, hand, spear, fire, ice, field, heart, mouth, sickness, silk...

  10. Examples from characters with 古 part for sound “gu” With radical for woman 姑= paternal aunt With radical for enclosure 固 = solid With radical for insect 蛄 = mole cricket With radical for gold [metal] 鈷 = cobalt

  11. From Characters, Build Words Compound words make sense! electric-brain, electric-vision, electric-talk 电脑,电视,电话 These have “fire” in the word: train, match, volcano, very mad, turkey, rocket, Mars 火车,火柴,火山,火大,火鸡,火箭,火星 electric-brain = computer, electric-vision = television, electric-talk= telephone train = fire-vehicle; match = fire-kindling; volcano=fire-mountain; very mad= fire-big; turkey= fire-chicken; rocket=fire-arrow; Mars = fire-star

  12. Decode Characters and Words • Use the clues(pictures, sound parts, bushou/radical, etc.) • Encourage guessing • Master dictionary skills

  13. Sample questions to prompt guessing strategies • Could the character be a picture? • Do you recognize any pieces of it? • What sound does that piece have? • Do you know any words with that sound? • What is the “bushou”?

  14. Push writing practice • Get stroke order right from the start • Practice calligraphy(water only version or real ink) • Download practice apps • Feel the characters: wax sticks creations, sand, soap lather, back scratches

  15. Know Strokes Have a common language to use to describe the [basically only] eight kinds of strokes

  16. 学觉 孝观 赏常 Goal: be able to “see” characters well enough to recognize its match, to make sure are looking up the right character

  17. Reinforce characters • Use games: Speed drills --how many in a minute Stroke countdown--guess in as few strokes as possible Game apps • Watch online animations • Invent zany character stories and mnemonics做碧聽

  18. Read. • End your print desert • Use technology: Toggle between languages, pinyin/characters, sound/mute • More than books: subtitles, menus, signs, tongue twisters...(e.g. concert DVD, exercise video, food packaging, online chats) • Move up: Add idioms; recognize trad. characters

  19. More on reading: • Read to get more context • Get in Chinese reading habit from start • Check out area libraries • Try graphic novels • Move beyond “baby” level books, though hard to match reading level to age/English reading level

  20. Share! Borrow! • Join groups; follow blogse.g. Mandarin Immersion Parents Council and Elizabeth Weise: look at their “Resources” lists • Share great finds Examples of efforts: peer reading groups, online chats in Chinese, Chinese-language martial arts instruction, Chinese-language barbers, poetry/speech competition, host exchange student, “adopt” a grandparent, read to a toddler

  21. Suggested links • Dictionary links:Try Pleco; Hippodict free versions(Tip: use “v” to input “ü” sound) • Yes!Chineseleveled readers, see index at http://www.yes-chinese.com/reading/list.do?type=1&level=GR-K&topic= Sample story:http://www.yes-chinese.com/reading/view.do?id=20110726083026 and bedtime stories:http://www.yes-chinese.com/story/index.jsp • pcbaby.com.cn for stories:http://book.pcbaby.com.cn/gushifor idiom/history stories:http://book.pcbaby.com.cn/guoxue/sj/for learning characters:http://edu.pcbaby.com.cn/book/zwsz/donghua/ • http://welearntv.vansd.org/chinese-immersion-programTeachers in Vancouver Washington’s program have made videos of reading books aloud

  22. (Links Continued) • HowDoILearnChinese.comhttp://howdoilearnchinese.com/several games for fruit, body parts, colors etc.; two very catchy songs for learning greetings and “Please give me...” • FluentUFree content includes videos such as recent TV commercials, songs, etc. but captioned in English, Chinese and pinyin, with vocabulary help. Sorted by difficulty level. Registration needed. http://www.fluentu.com/chinese/ • Silly Lilly, Stinky and a couple other kids’ books in different languages incl. Chinesehttp://www.professorgarfield.org/toon_book_reader/index.html • 36 Chinese Characters 三十六个字story told with animated pictographshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VhOCX5WLpw • “The animation of Chinese character”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4bwDfO2h28 • International Children’s Digital Library so far has 10 titles in Chinesehttp://en.childrenslibrary.org/

  23. (Links continued) • Mandarin Immersion Parents CouncilSan Francisco Mandarin parents’ website was so popular they started a national versionmiparentscouncil.org • A Parent’s Guide To Mandarin Immersion, coming fall 2014 by Elizabeth Weise, Mandarin Immersion Parents Council webmaster • Blog by U.S. mom raising bilingual kidshttp://haomama.us/ • Utah dual language immersion materialsutahchineseimmersion.org—site not working?Utah Mandarin Immersion Parent Councilhttp://utahimmersioncouncil.org/ • ChildRoad subscription stories (downloadable, free trial)https://www.childroad.com/s/

  24. (Links continued) • Taiwan’s Ministry of Culturemany book selections; subtitles in trad. charactershttp://children.moc.gov.tw/home.php • Beginning Mandarin lessons by PeaceCorppronunciation not by native speaker, but topics covered are goodhttp://wws.peacecorps.gov/wws/multimedia/language/lessons.cfm • Talking Chinese app, for beginning to learn Chinese, by FLTRP (Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press) • Chineasy by ShaoLanHsueh here is her TED talk video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=troxvPRmZm8 • Calligraphy PracticeFor INKLESS practice, shop online for “magic water painting paper” or “magic cloth for water brush painting” or “Chinese calligraphy practice sheet water only.” Also available for purchase locally.

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