Learning Chinese 學中文 – The Catch Star Girl Blog

Straddling the divide between Asian and North American Culture

Chinese (Mandarin, Pinyin) alphabet song

We have the musical book Baobao Learns Chinese, got it after Baby was born and Kiddo was beyond wholly impressionable

I have always said,”bo po mo fo” when we see “bpmf” in Mandarin class and never really wondered why. We

I went down the rabbit hole one day when I saw pinyin dice and the “similar content” that included some

I should post this before the new school year starts, huh? ******** Here is my background in brief: There was

Several months ago, Jean Wang (Extra Petite blogger) showed in her Stories the cute set of books her toddler adores

Besides the flaws I can see as a non-native Cantonese speaker continuing to speak to my five-year-old school-aged son pretty

Kiddo loves the song “Down By the Bay” and we listen to the Raffi version with lyrics as such: Down

Oh, the decisions regarding raising a child – large and small! One of the quirky – or you could say

Recently, I started to think about my surname. We’ve all heard heard that some English surnames like Miller, Smith, Hunter,

When I was younger, I taught myself the American Sign Language alphabet. Why? Just ’cause. I was nerdy that way.