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Learning Chinese 學中文 

Learning about bopomofo (zhuyin)

February 27, 2023February 27, 2023 Catch Star Girl

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

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Learning Chinese 學中文 Tech-Geeky 

Pinyin dice

February 26, 2023February 26, 2023 Catch Star Girl

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

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Asian Studies Shopping 行街 Tech-Geeky 

Sheep Village 2.0

February 26, 2023February 26, 2023 Catch Star Girl

One of the Cantonese-speaking Instagrammers I follow – cantonese4parents – posted to her stories about Sheep Village 2.0. First off,

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Learning Chinese 學中文 

Wrapped: First year of Mandarin school (lessons)

September 2, 2021 Catch Star Girl

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

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Learning Chinese 學中文 Shopping 行街 

My thoughts on the Baby Bear (小熊寶寶) toddler Chinese reader series

February 24, 2021February 24, 2021 Catch Star Girl

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

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Learning Chinese 學中文 Parenting 3G-CBC 

Cantonese vocabulary words for emotions for toddlers

January 26, 2021 Catch Star Girl

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

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Learning Chinese 學中文 Parenting 3G-CBC 

Down By the Bay – an exercise in Cantonese poetry

January 23, 2020 Catch Star Girl

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

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Learning Chinese 學中文 Parenting 3G-CBC 

“M restaurant” and “brown milk” and “N channel”

November 12, 2019 Catch Star Girl

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

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Asian Studies Parenting 3G-CBC 

Chinese name numerology – Round 2

June 22, 2019 Catch Star Girl

It’s been four years since I’m at this point again, picking a Chinese name! Aside from learning the sex and

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Word 中文字 

Cantonese vocabulary: Royalty

April 26, 2019 Catch Star Girl

I’m going to throw up this short list of vocabulary related to royalty because kiddo has this adorable just-before-bed routine*

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