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Hello and welcome to "The Joy of Learning Chinese", a website written for parents who want to teach their little ones Chinese by themselves.

I am a parent of 3 beautiful kids below the age of 5 (at the time of writing). Over the years, I realized that the best school to teach language is home. Kids are at home most of the time at this age, and with the pandemic, they are home more often. When at home, they talk, listen, and engage in activities that require languages. Why not make use of this opportunity to teach them language? 

While English is the main language in the country I'm living in, as a Chinese, I believe in the importance of letting my kids learn their mother tongue - well.

Also, I like that Chinese is so different from English. For English, you learn the 26 letters and can start forming words with various combinations of these letters, like puttnig "C" with "A" and "T" gives cat. But for Chinese, there's no such thing as letters. Each word is made up of its own set of strokes. When you learn a word, you learn each word by itself. It's harder to learn Chinese at first because of this, but the nice thing about Chinese is, once you know enough words, learning just gets easier. There's no grammar for Chinese. No past tense, present tense, and so on. Nice right? But before you can reach the easy stage, you first have to overcome the harder stage.

We are here to help you make the initial stage of learning Chinese easier.

We also know that teaching little ones require many materials, from flashcards to activity books and so on. The purpose of this blog is to share with you the many resources that I use so that you can take time away from preparation and spend more time teaching your child. 

There are 2 types of Chinese writing: traditional and simplified.

  • Traditional Chinese is used countries like Taiwan, Hong Kong and Malaysia.
  • Simplified Chinese is used in countries like China and Singapore. 

In this website, we will be teaching and using simplified Chinese.


~ Sharing the Joy of Learning Chinese.



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