Bilingual Resources by Habbi Habbi

In this post: Helen shares free, entertaining, and enriching Youtube channels for kids to learn Chinese. While there are so many different Chinese youtube channels you can choose from, she lists 6 channels here that my family loves (as context, her boys are 3 years old and 5 months old).

Chinese family trees can be so complicated. How do you address different family members in Chinese? This free bilingual printable activity helps you sort through the names - in this fun, free Chinese family tree exercise. 45 free, printable cards available - for you to build your own!

It's back to school for our bilingual learners (or start of school for some little ones) - and we have gotten so many questions about how best to support their continued bilingual learning! Here, we speak with bilingual speech therapy expert, mom, and friend - Grace - about your top back to school questions. 

Back to school or maybe even just starting school? For families trying to raise bilingual kids, one key question is "How do I maintain bilingual learning" (knowing that kids will naturally starting speaking English)? Here, we share 5 tips we are trying in our own household that seem to be working (so far!) We hope it's helpful food for thought. 

Interested in raising bilingual kids but not sure where to start? Feel like there are so many challenges in starting a bilingual journey? We are so inspired by Eveline - mom who speaks 6 languages - her genuine love for language and easygoing perspectives on learning. Here, she offers a few surprisingly simple ways to get started.

Teaching kids Cantonese is already an achievement - but trying to teach them as a non-native speaker in a mixed-race family is another level. We loved our chat here with Charing - mom of 2 - about how she overcame the mental hurdle, success factors, resources, and how her bilingual journey is going today.

What age is appropriate to start learning a second language? To start with Habbi Habbi? Here, we chat with Grace, speech therapy expert and bilingual mom on her bilingual family, language learning approach, how she uses Habbi Habbi and how she would advise different age groups and family types to use it too!

Everyone talks about bilingual but what about bicultural? Here, we speak with Dianna Lee (@coolmumdianna) - mom of 2 - about her perspectives on identity, langugae, and culture. Dianna identifies not as ABC / Chinese / Taiwanese / Cantonese / Singaporean ... but as part of an international Chinese Diaspora. She moves effortlessly between English, Beijing Chinese accent, Southern Taiwanese accent, Hong Kong Cantonese, and more.