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Along with our social media, our blog keeps you up-to-date with our stories. We want to share reviews of books and learning resources, educational activities and people’s language journeys. If you have a story you’d like to contribute, please email us directly! Let’s share our experiences to encourage cultural and lingual confidence!
Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Start Graded Learning
Everyone is talking about ‘graded learning’. But what is it? Do I even need it? How should I use it if I have it? We’ve been using and selling Chinese graded learning since 2020. So, here are some things you should know if you want to start using it.
Luka, Luka! Read my story!
Both the Europe and Global Luka have self-recording - and it’s a great feature. Sometimes, it’s comforting to hear a familiar adult’s voice. Sometimes, there’s a particular way you want a story to be told. The self-recording feature adds a personal touch to the Luka that helps us make the most of it. Find out about storyscribing and self-recording with Luka!
“Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of…!” 谁的脚印?
The book we’ve chosen today is called ‘动物的脚印’ (‘Animal Footprints’). The aim was to get her to start recognising body parts, animals and improve her comparison skills.
Kid used Rain Dance! 下雨了 It wasn’t very effective…
What have you been doing on the first day of the heatwave? Children can learn from anything and it’s important to give them the environment to let them enjoy and explore languages!
Magnetic Piggy Bank
Eliora really enjoys the book and it helps her enjoy the changing seasons in the UK. The activity should teach her not just colour but also encourage her to engage with the world around her!
Peppered pig?
What we needed was to strike a balance by managing her digital content exposure so she wouldn’t forget the value of her books. The things we introduced were things that we believed would help her gain knowledge of the world around her.
The cherry on top - 樱桃
My daughter’s got a special place in her brain for the books about food - we are a foodie family after all! One of those books is about drawing a cherry tree. We love the little catch at the end where the birds try to eat the drawing so we thought we’d do a little activity.
Things to do with: Apple 苹果
Apple picking is one of my personal favourite activities. She gets tired and we get apples! But whenever she does something, we always encourage her to talk about it in the language that we speak.
Colour me bean!
Recently, she’s taken quite a liking to a book about different coloured beans. Thankfully grandma always has a stock of each, so I thought it would be a good idea to make an activity out of it!
Happy Learning with Le Le Chinese 樂樂文化
Technology has advanced so much in the children’s book industry - I feel a bit like a caveman! Only a couple of weeks in, I was surprised to hear my daughter read to herself!