A Daughter-Mother Chinese Language Experience
A 6-year old started learning Mandarin in her Kindergarten immersion class. After one year, she is able to hold conversations in a language her mother cannot understand! Hear her and her mother share their story about the joy and excitement in learning a new language. She had a great teacher and was able to use Better Chinese online curriculum (www.betterchinese.com), she has kept up her Chinese over her summer break and is able to sing, count and chat in Chinese.
Not true – if anyone can start learning English then anyone can start learning Chinese too, at any age. It just depends on how close your first language is to it, your effort and IQ that determines the difficulty for an individual..
I find that Japanese games like “final fantasy”‘s female characters are not based on Japanese women but on mixed girls of asian and european origin. I think that produces the best “product”, EVER !
chinese language is hard to learn yet it is easy to use. totally agree
Is the girl half Chinese?
chinese language is hard to learn yet it is easy to use. numbers are so easy to learn. days of the week and the months is so easy they can be memorized in one hour. I have been teaching myself chinese for 6 months and I can read and write more than I thought I would be able to at this point. I think the mind can make things harder than they actually are. all it takes is an intrest and actually spending the time to study. I am 29 and if I can learn chinese anyone can.
The fact that she mentioned that her daughter learned to count easily reminded me of something I read from Outliers about Asians being better at math not because of genetic factors but because of language; as Asian languages have “logical counting system compared to the irregular ways that numerals are spoken in English”
lol maybe spanish is easier because of the letters when you read and spell. And what is the dad? the daughter looks a little asian to me.
when the chinese take over the world, boy will u be learning chinese, it will either be learn chinese or bamboo torture, your choice
kinda
Her father is Chinese. yay to Eurasians.
They are actually learning the Simplified Chinese characters.
oh it’s so nice that they are learning the traditional chinese characters but not the simplified one!
probably
The chinese written language has evidence that it was derived from biblical Christian teaching. The character for forbidden consists of three symbols: tree (of knowledge), tree (of life) and command (from God). There are other similar occurances like this. More proof that the Christian God is the only reel God.
i’m brazilian.. is it too hard for me to learn chinese ?
Modern Chinese is like that, particularly Cantonese and other southern Chinese languages, but Classical Chinese, Middle and Old Chinese actually has the SOV sentence structure as well as place holders like in Japanese (wa, ga, he, wo, etc.).
Who? The mother is obviously white, and the daughter obviously isn’t. Is there any question about that?
The daughter is Chinese? Lol..
Actually Chinese is more (subject+object+verb) Sometimes it’s not, but most the time it is. Simple sentences can be sub+verb+obj. It’s also considered a “pro drop” language(Pronoun drop) like Korean or Spanish, but they use words for “I, we. them, us, you (pl)” a lot for a pro drop language.
at least the structure of Chinese syntax is similar to latin based languages like english and spanish (subject+verb+object.) it’s a pain in the ass to learn japanese or jorean language where the syntax is subject+object+verb. reminds me of reverse polish notation.
her mom…seems…like she’s jealous of her daughter? wth.. or is it just me?
she is
Chinese is only hard for native english speakers
because, the intonations are by moods, unlike my native language, tagalog, has tones also 
I think it’s better if you say, wo jiao ….. not wo de ming zi shi …. Saves time
But good sentence :]
True :]