Toddlers learning chinese.

[kimmba]

Hi diva7, hypatia has asked me the same question. Please read my reply if there are enough parents in Sydney, I will certainly go up and help you all to set it up so more and more children can benefit the early language learning without paying a costly amount of money.

Hi Nikita, yes Bilingual Learning centre project is going but I don't know how long will it take. If you know of any drafting individual or company, any town planner and builder/ building company, etc. please refer me as this is the first time I am building in this country so I need as much help as possible.

Meantime, let's keep helping the little ones and get them going with the language learning.

The one sure excellent way is to install a Chinese TV system so you will have Chinese tv the whole day. Of course you will have to select the program that you are showing your children but you can learn it yourself, too. It costs between $499 to $2000, it depends on which system you are getting. Mind you, not the more you pay the better it is. You may need to speak to as many Chinese TV installers as possible to decide at the end.

Kimmba also has a DVD that you can buy with songs and children's dancing, it's about 1 hours' children stage performance. I made that DVD in 2007, our first end of year concert. It was so popular with all our families. My two girls has watched it over and over again, they sing and dance with the DVD. My older children only watch Chinese Dora, Chinese story DVD, and Spanish Dora. The language DVDs I have are not the teaching ones, it's just the carton stories and karaoke Chinese children' songs. So it is much more interactive and engaging.

If you would like more details, please email me. We are changing our internet provder, after 5 and half years with them. It will take about 5 to 20 days (hope not that long) to switch over so we are on the dial up at the moment.......

Cheers,

Marisha

[kimmba]

I forgot to mention that there are lots of Chinese newspapers and Chinese weekly or Chinese magazines and so on that would have lots of Chinese TV installers' details. Friday afternoon is the best time to go and pick up a copy from your local Chinese store and you will be able to find someone that you are happy with.

The other sure way of helping your child to learn Chinese is having a Chinese nanny and organize a regular play with Chinese families that speak Chinese at home, If attending Chinese playgroups weekly is not an option for you.

I don't know much about the sign language myself but I absolutely agree with you Nikita, about using the 'sign' language to help children to learn a second language, this is the similar approach we have in our classroom. We don't really have a sign language section but we use a lot of body language to help our children to understand what we are saying before we explain it to them in English, mind you, babies won't care what language you explain to them. They just understand you anyway, how wonderful.

I am searching for more self learning Mandarin materials for you all, will take me a few days before I would have enough information so please be patient. Once I've got enough information, I will put it up in the forum. We can either order it individually or order it as a group and maybe getting some group discount.

Cheers,
Marisha

[hypatia]

Thank you Marisha for all the info. I'll get in touch with you where I'm back to Sydney and will see what i can find re: cable + a good Mandarin playgroup for my daughter.
I'm a french teacher and used to teach adults & teens but i'm beginning to think, now that i have a little one, that I should start teaching babies.
It is amazing how much private language schools charge for teaching kids (and most of the time, it's not the teacher who gets paid lots  > )

[kimmba]

You are welcome. Hope you will find some language and community based playgroups in Sydney, otherwise, start one yourself, especially you have all the knowledge and skills of teaching French. If you need more games and activities for toddlers, I can help you with that.

I pay my teachers very well, that's why I have the lowest teacher turning rate. Teachers stay with me since 2007. I believe you have to pay them well so they will do a good job with your children (I have more than 150 children coming weekly and 7 teachers working part with me). Unfortunately, not everyone do the same.

Let's keep in touch. I am campaigning to go to all MCH centers in Melbourne and talk to new mothers about bilingual education at babyhood. Hope by doing so, more and more parents would follow the lead and make bilingual learning a new social phenomena in Melbourne. Maybe you can lobby so in Sydney. It does need lots of determination as some MCH coordinators are really rigid. I am very honored to have a group of professional mothers work with me and support what I am doing. Cheers, Marisha

[kimmba]

By the way, I forgot to put the link of our You Tube short videos. You may be interested at how we run our bilingual playgroup for toddlers.

http://www.youtube.com/user/kimmbabilingual

Cheers,
Marisha

[ZaJa]

Hi Marisha, diva7 and hypatia! I'm also from Sydney and would love to be part of any Chinese learning group such as kimmba. Hope we can work out something with the help of Marisha!:)

[kimmba]

Excellent, now there are three of you. Which suburb are you all from? If you can find a location that everyone is happy to travel and find a NH or community centre, church hall/room and so on. See how much do they charge for the rent. If it is an agreeable price, then the location is done. Next, find a group of mums and a good preschool qualified Chinese teacher. I am sure there must be lots of them in Sydney.

A big day ahead of me tomorrow so I will talk soon. Need to catch up some sleep.

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