Ni Hao Chinese Blog

Do you have a hard time asking your children to clean up the toys after they playing with it? Do the children always make a mess with their personal items? It is challenging for many of the parents to build up younger children's responsibility to their toys, books,...

Holiday season is here! Are you getting tired of the old-school and cliché holiday movies? Here are a couple of Chinese films we recommend for you and your kids to watch together. They may not be directly related to Christmas or New Year but they are very inspiring...

What are the global ranking of American students' reading, math and science skills? What does the ranking indicate? How can we improve children's academic performance?PISA (The Programme for International Student Assessment), an international standardized test that is...

According to CDC (Centers of Diseases Control and Prevention), Children younger than 5 years old–especially those younger than 2– are at high risk of developing serious flu-related complications. A flu vaccine offers the best defense against flu and its potentially...

Are you curious about what it would look like if living in a Mandarin-speaking places like Taiwan or China? Are you interested in the cultural differences between English-speaking countries and Mandarin-speaking countries? Do you want to know how do non-Mandarin...

Did you know that more than 180 languages are spoken across the state of Washington in the United States?Bilingualism—the ability to express oneself in two languages—is on the rise, helping facilitate cross-cultural interactions in a whole new level. Now more than...

Autumn is here! This is the time for harvest and celebration. As the weather cools down, people starting to get their sweaters, scarves and boots out of closets. However, the change of the weather between different seasons may trigger allergies. Besides, it is also...

While mathematic and language (reading) play the important roles in primary education as their main functions lead to the contribution to children's skills and capability to access advance development in higher education or future career, social studies also have...

Scholars suggests that children start to master the phonological, semantic, and syntactic components that all language must have by the age of 3. Most children learn to read by 6 or 7 years of age. Some children learn at 4 or 5 years of age. In 1997, the US Congress...