Teaching Basic Chinese and English to Children - 较小孩子简单的英文和中文

This is Katelyn and Dharma's website - that's Katelyn on the left, Dharma on the right, with our advisor Emily in the middle.

For our Girl Scout Silver Award project, we wanted to educate and empower children. Since we both love Chinese, we decided to teach the basics of Chinese to America (or anyone who speaks English).

We wrote, produced, and published 10 bilingual videos and books in Chinese and English on our website. We then made presentations to schools, day care centers, and Girl Scout meetings to promote our project.

We have contacted newspapers, radio stations, and The Ellen DeGeneres Show requesting a chance to promote our Silver Award. We are still waiting to hear back from Ellen:

The Los Altos Town Crier ran an article about our project in their October 31, 2012 (Halloween!) edition: Scouting News: Local Girl Scouts build website to teach Chinese.

Vanessa Chambe, Michigan's Miss Oakland County Outstanding Teen, is so impressed with our Silver Award project, she made a video to promote our website on her Facebook page. Her official platform is: "Girl Scouts: Building Character and Confidence Through Service." We are very excited about Ms. Chambe's endorsement:

We would like to give a special thanks to our Silver Award advisors: Tiffany Strickland, the Director of The Tech Challenge at The Tech Museum, and Emily Scheele, Internal Mobility Specialist at Google, Inc. Their encouragement and endless positive enthusiasm made this project so much fun. We learned about computers, our community, and ourselves.

We would also like to thank everyone who allowed us to come and present our Silver Award project.

We would also like to thank the Girl Scouts of America for establishing the Silver Award Project. This is our 8th year in Girl Scouts. Girl Scouts has always encouraged, empowered, and let us know that anything is possible.

WE LOVE GIRL SCOUTS! 我们爱女童子军!

We hope you enjoy learning Chinese!!!!

Ideas for how to use this material:

• 1. Open the YouTube links to play the videos

  2. Print the PDF slides for a video if you want to:

     • take notes on the words

     • follow along with the video

     • add your own pictures

Kids and teachers can use this website to teach Chinese in a classroom at a school. Parents and kids can learn Chinese at home. We hope you have as much learning as we had making this for you!

Katelyn is the English Voice Talent on all videos. Katelyn is also responsible for everything in categories: Simple Sentences, Verbs, Shapes, Days of Week, and Body.

Dharma is the Chinese Voice Talent on all videos. Dharma is also responsible for everything in categories: Animals, Colors, Food, Numbers, and Seasons.

Dharma did all the Chinese writing and translation for the entire project.