Cantonese Resources for Non-Fluent Parents
The theme of week seven of Sing and Sign is all about the doctors. Now hopefully your baby won’t have much call for visiting the doctors outside of routine appointments, but when they do visit the doctors, it can be helpful to use baby signs to help out them at ease. *No bears were harmed… Continue reading Doctor Heals Me Song (Baby Sign Language – Week 7)
For our sixth Sing and Sign lesson, we focused on something your baby has in abundance: feelings! Whilst AJ isn’t old enough to understand what I’m signing, it’s important to me to get into the habit of talking about his emotions so I’m prepared to validate all the wonderful, messy feelings he will experience growing… Continue reading Expressing Emotions and Positive Parenting (Baby Sign Language – Week 6)
So we’re five weeks into our Sing and Sign lessons and we’ve covered a lot of baby signs but I’ve yet to share any songs we do. Sing and Sign often uses fun songs for different aspects of your baby’s routine. Incorporating songs can help: Your baby anticipate your actions (and make things like nappy… Continue reading The Nappy Changing Song (Baby Sign Language – Week 5)
This week in our Sing and Sign class, AJ and I covered what seemed like a million signs- they seem to have a lot of faith in our sleep-deprived minds (AJ hit his 8 month sleep regression right on queue.) Here, we are going to be focusing on signs about going outside. Signs of the… Continue reading Signs for Going Outside (Baby Sign Language – Week 4)
We are three weeks into our Sing and Sign class and today we will be learning key signs to play AJ’s favourite game, peekaboo. Sign of the Week 邊度 bin1 dou6 | Where? This week, our key word is 邊度 bin1 dou6 | where. I’ve found I’ve been signing where a lot to AJ… E.g.1.… Continue reading Signs for Peekaboo (Baby Sign Language – Week 3)
Each Sunday, we’re adding to both our baby sign langauge and Cantonese vocabulary inspired by our Sing and Sign class of the week. Remember, I’ve also made Quizlet deck especially for learning signs. If you need to catch up, here is what we learnt last week. Sign of the Week 唔 m4 + ··· |… Continue reading Saying No and Reading Books (Baby Sign Language – Week 2)
AJ and joined our first Sing and Sign class this week and we absolutely loved it. AJ sat entranced by the session facilitator and was full of smiles and happy arm flaps. If you haven’t heard of Sign and Sign before, it’s a class that teaches baby sign language through different songs and aims to… Continue reading Baby Sign Language for Bilingual Babies (Week 1)
One of the main barriers Cantonese learners have is the fact there’s frustratingly few resources for made for us, especially when it comes to apps. The overwhelming majority of Chinese learning apps are catered for Mandarin and the few that advertise Cantonese content are just glorified dictionaries. I wish there were more high-quality Cantonese apps… Continue reading Drops App Review
Buying books and reading are two separate hobbies as far as I’m concerned and there’s no better reason to give in to my inner book-hoarder than having a baby. My goal is to be able to spend every story time reading to AJ in Cantonese, however, this presents a few issues: I can’t read Chinese… Continue reading How I Make my Own Cantonese Books
One of the main challenges of instilling a minority language is simply your child doesn’t get enough exposure. My baby will speak to the vast majority of his family in English, learn at school in English, communicate with his friend in English, and watch tv in English! It is often the case that a child’s… Continue reading 10 Ways to Create an Immersive Cantonese Environment
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