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App Review: Kids Learn Mandarin

Kids Learn Mandarin

We were given a download code to try out and review the new app from Fingerprint called Kids Learn Mandarin. Our download code allows us the complete access to all 12 lessons on the app. Opinions of the app are 100% our own.

A few years ago I got the idea in my head that I would like to learn Chinese. Mandarin Chinese actually. I bought books, started writing a bit of the language and even attended Chinese New Year celebration. I didn’t get, too far. I’d still like to learn the Chinese language but maybe I should start out a little smaller and try to get some basic lessons down. The way a kid would learn. So, when I get the chance to review language apps I generally say yes and try them out alongside my kids.

Kids Learn Mandarin

The Kids Learn Mandarin app is nice because it teaches children the language through fun activities, a little movie and stickers. Each of the 12 lessons has 8 activities, 1 movie and 20 stickers. The lessons are broken down into Numbers, Colors & Shapes, Animals, Fruits & Vegetables, Family & Occupations, Body Parts, Clothes, Toys & Transport, Sports & Hobbies, Things at Home, Eating & Drinking and Nature & Outdoors. Kids can play the different lessons in any order that they’s like however they do build on each other and it would make sense to play them in order. Continue reading App Review: Kids Learn Mandarin →

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Learning Chinese The BenSpark Way

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Learning Chinese The BenSpark Way
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Every once in a while you hear that someone has a New Year’s Resolution to “learn a foreign language”. Well, that is one of mine but with a twist. To keep me on track I am blogging about it on a daily basis. I ran this idea by a few people online who I respect and admire. They had a few things to say about it. They said mostly that I should try and learn a language. However one said that a blog about learning a foreign language, specifically Chinese was too niche and really wouldn’t be of value to anyone and that I should incorporate that into this blog somehow.

Now I could have packed up shop right then and there seeing as I was only 11 days into the experiment. But I decided that, no, this blog isn’t about that part of my life and I made a commitment to see it through. So, I am going to continue to blog about my experiment to learn Chinese in 15 minutes a day at my newest blog 15minaday.com. It has been a really interesting project so far and I’m not doing it to generate money but to learn something totally new. The more I started looking for resources for learning Chinese the more I found tons of them. I think that when the experiment is finished there will be a wealth of value for someone who wants to go about learning Chinese because I will have gone through many different resources that are available and let you know which are good and which are not. I wouldn’t mind generating a little income either so I do have amazon affiliate links on the site in case anyone wants to buy the books I’m using in this experiment.

The resources I am are finding consist or websites, blogs, podcasts, books and audiobooks. Many resources are totally free and have tons of info. I’ve made a few purchases to get started and ultimately I want to use Rosetta Stone but it is a bit expensive. The other day I even used the fortunes from our fortune cookies as a learning project.

I’ve learned a few things about this project.

  1. When a project is new it is fun and exciting.
  2. It takes a while to see the big picture (I haven’t even seen the little one yet)
  3. Learning something new takes time (for me, more than 15 minutes a day)
  4. You can respect someone and still disagree with them.
  5. Breaking a project down to small parts that are manageable allows you to get them done.