{"id":180,"date":"2014-05-13T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/2014\/05\/13\/5-no-tears-ways-to-help-kids-love-chinese\/"},"modified":"2014-10-03T18:18:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T10:18:47","slug":"5-no-tears-ways-to-help-kids-love-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/2014\/05\/5-no-tears-ways-to-help-kids-love-chinese\/","title":{"rendered":"5 No-Tears Ways To Help Kids Love Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"
Dana speaks Mandarin fluently and we’ve often been asked by friends and readers how we enthuse her in learning Chinese. It’s no secret really, we do it these 5 ways:<\/p>\n
1. Through Travels<\/b><\/p>\n
One of the key uses of language is for communication. Travelling helps children see the language come alive and when you are in a foreign country, they see first hand how useful the language is. For this reason alone, we’ve brought Dana to Taiwan<\/a> twice for language immersion. She saw how we interacted with the local folks in Mandarin, how every sign board, every menu is printed in Chinese, and she even picked up conversational Mandarin phrases there. Taiwan as a destination is not expensive (with budget airlines and many good B&Bs) but the vast exposure it provides for children – Priceless.<\/p>\n