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Hosted by teacher Jade Qian, Follow Jade! video series helps children learn to speak Mandarin Chinese with songs, stories, games and glimpses of everyday life in China. From the first moments of Follow Jade! Let’s Go to Market in China, viewers are immersed in the sights and sounds of China. We visit markets where one can buy a range of fruits, from pu tao (grapes) to ping guo (apples). Parents can read along to the subtitling as each new word is introduced. Next, Jade v… More >>
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The Follow Jade videos are serving as a perfect introduction to Mandarin Chinese for my two small children. Jade employs many tools to keep kids engaged, including props, animation, songs, and scenes of kids in China. For non-Chinese parents like us, it is the perfect tool to get children exited about speaking Chinese. My three year old daughter asked for Follow Jade three times today!
Both Follow Jade videos have worked well to gently introduce my children to the language and culture in a very positive way. An especially strong recommendation for FCC parents. We’re waiting for the next video!
Rating: 5 / 5
I have two kids who are half Chinese and half American, and are interested in learning Chinese. A friend told us about this “follow jade” series. We first borrowed it from the liabrary, and it was a hit in the family! The kids started to say things like “what is your name”, “how old are you” in Chinese just like Jade, and answer back with each other just like the kids in the video. It was so sweet to see that! I am just so happy to see them finally getting into Chinese with excitement.
The video is not all Chinese (that would not really work), it is spaced nicely with English and Chinese, making the Chinese very visible and easy to remember. Some people might not get used to it at the beginning. I thought it was very different at first, because it is not the usual way of teaching. But it works like a charm! I would encourage everyone to try it.
I also like the real market scenes in China, the color, the sound, it really makes you feel China and want to practice your Chinese. I highly recommend the two Follow Jade videos to anyone. The Kindergarden one has more songs and basic words, the Market one has a bit extended vocabs. Try them!
Rating: 5 / 5
Follow Jade! offers children both a fun game and a good learning experience. With real scenes from China, the video introduces you to a different culture while teaching you some basic Chinese. Jade, an enjoyable person with her unique teaching style, is able to attract children of different ages their attention and maintain their high enthusiasm in learning Chinese. I really enjoyed watching this video!
Rating: 5 / 5
The instructor was pleasant and charistmatic. She used props in many cases to illustrate her points about the parts of the body, names of fruits and animals, etc. There is a little clapping game at the end which was fun.
However, this video didn’t strongly appeal to me or my 2-year old. The majority of the video is presented in a classroom-ish manner: the instructor held up different fruits, animals, etc, and named them in Chinese. Then she drilled the audience on the names again. I guess the drills were game-like, but didn’t seem too engaging. The video did not have stories, drama, music, etc. to keep my child interested. He has not wanted to watch it again after the first time.
Much of the spoken language on the video is in English. Given that my child is 2 years old, I think a total-immersion approach would be more effective. I also noticed that sometimes the instructor would use a Chinese word in an English sentance, and would not pronounce that Chinese word with the correct tone. I think this model could be confusing to kids.
Rating: 2 / 5
Jade, the instructor is attractive, pleasant and charistmatic. She used props in many cases to illustrate her points about the parts of the body, names of fruits and animals, etc. There are a few attempts at interaction with clapping and singing along but mostly the exercises fail to capture your attention.
In fact, this video did not appeal to me, my students or my 4-year old. The entire video is incredibly slow-moving and speaks to you as if you are incapable of swallowing. (I would look for similar videos on Chinasprout.com.)
The majority of the video is presented in a classroom setting: the instructor held up different fruits, animals, etc, and named them in Chinese. In many instances Jade’s pronunciation was less than perfect. Then she drilled the audience on the names again. I guess the drills were game-like, but weren’t at all interesting or engaging and, over time, became extremely irritating. The video did not have much to keep me, my students or my child interested. Afer a partial viewing we immediately sold this tape on eBay.
Rating: 1 / 5
we can record sights and we can record sounds, why not record smells?
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His craftsmanship is really very bad, and needs a lot of work. There’s shoddiness at the joins and problems with symmetry and basic composition. Perhaps if he enrolled in a woodcrafting class at the local community college he could get to a point where he might be employable in a large factory or something. Is he willing to relocate to China? Does he speak Chinese?
language-learning gets harder and harder with age, so being 30 has plenty to do with it. if the poster were four, he could learn Chinese with no accent. At 30, Dutch or German might be a more attractive choice – assuming he intends to hold actual conversations in the language he learns.
visit must if you want learn Chinese language…
hmm.. it's chinese stories of UFO. aka SF.. but i do like sailor uniforms!
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