HONG CAI MEI MEI

My 26 month old daughter singing Hong Cai Mei Mei and Where are My Friends? in Mandarin. To those of you who are Chinese/speak Mandarin, I know she made a couple of errors but she does that in English too! She's a baby !

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[quanyin04]

Just one comment - the word "cai" should be pronounced as "tsai" - the C in pinyin chinese has a 'ts' sound. This is great that she is learning Chinese songs. If you haven't already - I would suggest the "Play and Sing with Mei Mei" videos. They teach mandarin and songs and games - Kenzie loves them.

[finch6789]

oh we have all of them - that's where we got the words from, but i'll have to revisit it for the pronunciation - we slipped on that one. thx !

[quanyin04]

We have them too... but Kenzie gets stuck on one phrase and can't seem to go anywhere beyond that... And she's 5! I'm no good with it, either, since I can't find the pinyin for the entire song anywhwere! Your daughter is waaaaaay ahead of us! LOL! She is doing a great job!

[finch6789]

oh but she's 2.5 and won't go anywhere near the potty so she's lagging in other areas ! hee hee - she's so stubborn !

[lukygirl314]

I'm not fluent in Mandarin but I knew the second song and she did an excellent job. Does she learn chinese from you or does she go to chinese school? I'm hoping to send our daughter to chinese school to learn either Mandarin or Cantonese :)

[finch6789]

She only knew "mama" when we brought her home from China when she was 8 months old because she was in foster care. I subscribe to Mandarin podcasts and get a word emailed to me each day, plus we have many many Chinese books, videos and cds that we listen to all the time. We're learning together, but I learned these 2 songs and sang them to her about 10 times a day until they stuck. I love Krystal's ballet dress! So very stylish! Does she really like carrots? ha ha!

[GoldenShellback1]

I'm jealous:)

[asngurl2525]

aww she's super cute

ke ai.

:DD

[nikeshoxz08]

She is so precious. I think she did an absolutely excellent job. She will be a great star one day..thank you for sharing this little cutie

[quanyin04]

Oh, I wouldn't let that get to me. Kenzie went back and forth on the potty training stuff... her big impetus to actually do it was because she wanted to be with the big kids in the other room at daycare, and using the potty was one of the conditions. LOL!

[lukygirl314]

That is so wonderful :) I think it's truely fantastic that you are teaching her to be bilingual. You truely are wonderful parents. Krystal doesn't eat carrots when she is with me but her grandmother gives her carrots mixed in with her food.I think she likes how her grandmother prepares carrots. To be honest, I don't know how to cook so I've never seen her eat a carrot... lol :) But I know for a fact that she does eat carrots everytime she is at her grandma's house visiting (about 3 times a week)