Comments on: 我是一只小小小小鸟 I’m a little bird

By: Zara's Mama

Zara's Mama — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:56:00 +0000

Fuzzoo,
I do let her listen to Chinese songs, especially the kids one. And on my way to work, I listen to the Chinese radio station in the car with her. 🙂

Sesame,
AAah.. the Chinese teacher is from his school, or you got a tutor for him?

Jefferene,
My Mandarin also half pass six.. that’s why hard to converse to her. Anyway, I’m trying.

May,
Guess, that someone will have to be mummy.. No one in the family speaks Mandarin.

Jason,
Soon huh.. wait.. let her slowly learn. She can do the Wei-wei bu-yau pa also.. 😛

Shiaulin,
B’cos I like the song ma.. And wanted to teach her what a bird is in Chinese. 😛

Simple American,
Oh boy.. so both your kids don’t speak Chinese but you do? The one who call your kid stupid was a real bully!
Let her learn up more songs first.. Now she can only do the ending word in each phrase.

Blogie Talkie,
Nice song.. meaningful too.. But Zara doesn’t have a clue what it’s about. 😛

Gene Lim,
thank you thank you *pat myself on the back*

Jasmine,
Yeah hor.. Sally Yeh!! 😛

Vien,
Wow, you are exposing Belle to so many languages, she’ll be a real linguist!

Tracy,
That’s the thing loh.. if you expose them to too many languages, they’ll speak campur campur.

Domestic,
Starting with songs first.. 😛

Mother Superior,
Thanks.

Geetha,
I’m not so keen in Cantonese but more so in Mandarin. More useful as a whole. 😛
Aaa.. that’s good, they speak the mother tongue. Mine is Hokkien, but I’m not even exposing her to any which is a shame.

By: geetha

geetha — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:04:00 +0000

Good, must teach her cantonese too. She will pick it up fast, as you start to teach her.

My son is also learning tamil. He speaks tamil when at in-laws.

By: Mother Superior

Mother Superior — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:54:00 +0000

She’s really cute.

By: domestic rat

domestic rat — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:50:00 +0000

Take your time.. maybe start with some interesting chinese cartoons to engage her interest in the language?

By: Tracy

Tracy — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:46:00 +0000

Hahaha, Zara’s voice so cute and can duet with mummy.

No worries, no worries. When she enters kindy, I’m sure she’ll learn the 3 languages.

Destinee is speaking rojak languages with us now. She’s so used to speaking Cantonese (1 year with her nanny who spoke Cantonese only) and now when she’s speaking in ‘jap pa lang’ – Cantonese, a little of English, Mandarin and Malay.

By: Vien

Vien — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:18:00 +0000

OMG! You girls sound so cute together. I’ve also been told to repeat each word with another language and like you, I got lazy too. So, now, my job is to speak to Belle in cantonese and english. The hubby and his folks will take care of the Shanghaiese part. As for mandarin, I guess she will just have to pick it up from other conversation.

It seems like Zara understands what you say. After all, she did reply “bu yao” to your question. 😉

By: jazzmint

jazzmint — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 04:43:00 +0000

hehe..don’t wanna speak mandarin, but can sing mandarin, not bad wohh. Future Sally Yeh liao lerr!!

By: Gene Lim

Gene Lim — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 03:19:00 +0000

Bravo! Bravo! encore! encor! hehehe..well dun worrie abt the language..i am sure she will pick up as she go along… 🙂
U r doing marvelous job here my dear..should give urself some credits! 🙂

By: Blogie-Talkie

Blogie-Talkie — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 02:11:00 +0000

ya, I remember this song…

By: Simple American

Simple American — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 01:46:00 +0000

Maybe if you got some Mandarin children shows?

Wish I would have done it with my kids. Sent them to Chinese schools, but I think I learned more than my son. He would not let me leave during the class. The other boys teased him about his accent and called him stupid which did not help either.

Hey you girls sing pretty good. Maybe you should consider doing some kiddie sing along. I’m serious, no joke.