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Cantonese Journal on Emotions for Parents and Kids

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 When I was at a professional development for English as Additional Language, we were encouraged to encourage the parents to keep talking with their children in their home language.  That's because once you know a concept and the word for that concept in one language, it is easier to learn that word in another language.  It activates the background knowledge for the learner.   Many students usually end up speaking English once they start school.  I think that's because they are learning all these concepts and ideas and they can now talk about it in English to describe their experience but they don't have that vocabulary in Cantonese.  There are not a lot of Cantonese books to help bridge the gap of what they are learning in elementary school to the language / vocabulary spoken at home.  I would love Cantonese resources that parents can use to help discuss what students are learning in school. Social emotional learning has been taught in elementary...
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Bluey (Cantonese) Review

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   For my first review, I am reviewing the beloved Children's cartoon, Bluey.  The Cantonese version is available on Disney + in North America. You will have to sail the high seas if you are not in this region.  You can look around the Cantonese P@rents group in FB.  (Change the @ to the letter).   Child Appropriate?  Yes!  Highly appropriate language. Adult Appropriate? Enjoyable, slightly child like language that isn't annoying.  There isn't too much baby talk.  They have good use of sentence final particles.  In fact, my friend is analyzing their usage of sentence final particles to learn them. Content:  Bluey is a highly educational show that teaches people how to deal with different life situations, stressors, problems through play.  A+   I can usually sit through my friends trying to subtitle it in Cantonese.  
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Welcome!

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Welcome!  I am an adult learning Cantonese as a heritage learner.  I have done some training in to teaching English as an Additional Language.  I had many difficulties learning Cantonese when I was young due to my difficulty in memorizing the sounds / tones for words, especially words in Standard Written Chinese since we do not use them daily.  They switched me over to learning Mandarin since it had pinyin and I thrived on that since dictation meant we also had to memorize the pinyin. Thankfully, Jyutping romanization is getting popular.  Materials and tools are being created using Jyutping to help learners learn.   What an exciting time to be in! I hope to provide resources and reviews of Cantonese and Chinese learning materials. Happy Learning!
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