When you first decide to learn Chinese, you are faced with a dilemma. Which Chinese language should you learn – Cantonese or Mandarin? The answer depends on what you want.
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This is a blog about books, writing, teaching, and life.
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Making SMART Goals for Success
The best way to accomplish something is to first set a goal. Then take a step in the right direction and you are already heading towards success. But making goals is easy, while accomplishing the goal is hard.
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Making Games to Learn Chinese
Learning Chinese is hard. Teaching Chinese is probably even harder. Nobody has the time to practice writing each Chinese character a thousand times and the boring task only makes students hate learning Chinese even more.
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Making a 90-second Newbery Movie
The 90-second Newbery Film Festival is coming up. Time to start making movies again.
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The Best Book of All is their Homerun Book
It’s the end of November and almost Christmas. Which means I need to start thinking about presents for my students. Every year I have students write a letter to Santa with a list of ten different kinds of books they like to read.
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Fun Ice Breaker for First Day of School
Today was the first day of school. I gave the students a “Would You Rather” bingo sheet. Students would circle one of the options.
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Writing Morning Pages from The Artist’s Way
Having writing friends is great. They understand your writing troubles. They can critique your work giving good writerly feedback. And they have read other writer books that you haven’t.
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English title for new Chinese picture book
Thank you for all the votes and feedback. The new Chinese picture book I am currently working on will be titled When Chicken and Duck Talk. The illustrator is currently hard at work illustrating the book. I will provide more updates as soon as the book is ready.
Check out Chinese comics of Chicken and Duck on Working Wonders while you wait.