Looking for a boost in Chinese homework or practice? Good news! Around 25 BHS CI and World Language Chinese Students are eager to help. Email bcic220@gmail.com for your tutor list, complete with contact info, availability, and interests. This service is exclusively for CI families. Reach out to tutors or their guardians directly to arrange sessions….
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Google Translate App – Lens
Most of us are familiar with google translate. Good news, there’s an app! More excitingly there’s an optical feature on the app that changes on your screen Chinese to English and vice versa (as well as other languages). https://translate.google.com/about/ **Warning: Google Translate does not translate as well as CI students and should be used as…
LOTE4Kids Chinese Picture Books
Barrington Area Library has a multilingual (specifically Mandarin) picture book database: LOTE4Kids: This platform allows you to read or listen to a narrator in Languages Other Than English (LOTE), and features a collection of over 1350+ digital picture books in 45+ World Languages. Completely FREE!!! All you need to access it is your Barrington Area…
Parent’s Guide to Mandarin Immersion
Parent’s Guide to Mandarin Immersion by Elizabeth Weise This book gives a thorough explanation of Chinese immersion programs from a non-Chinese parent’sperspective. Published in 2014 more tools and support are available since the book was published. About the Author Elizabeth Weise has two daughters in Mandarin immersion in San Francisco. She wason the committee that…
Chinese Resources on YouTube
Popular TV Series These wildly popular TV series have their own Mandarin Chinese channels. PAW Patrol https://www.youtube.com/@PAWPatrolMandarin Peppa Pig https://www.youtube.com/@PeppaPigChineseOfficial Octonauts https://www.youtube.com/@OctonautsMandarin PJ Masks https://www.youtube.com/@user-ov7jz1di7s Cultural Enrichment or Advanced Learners 李子柒LI Ziqi A Chinese Lifestyle YouTuber cooking and doing handicrafts. It’s very relaxing to watch. A New York Times restaurant critic called Li her “quarantine queen.” https://www.youtube.com/@cnliziqi…
Disney in Chinese
If you have a subscription to Disney plus, there is a rich trove of resources for learning Chinese. Any Disney (including Pixar, Marvel, etc) film that has been ever released in China or Taiwan can be found with Chinese audios and subtitles on Disney Plus. Disney offers 2 or 3 options for Chinese audio,…
Chinese Resources on Prime Video
If you have Amazon’s Prime check out these shows in Mandarin Chinese… Creative Galaxy Tumble Leaf If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Pete the Cat Scroll down the language list so you can select subtitles and audio. For the subtitles: 中文（简体） means Chinese-Simplified, the writing system that is taught in our CI classes. …