Babies have a short attention span, but are like a huge sponge. The trick is giving them the right material that keeps them interested and is at their level. I like the idea of reading to them at a young age. Board Books and pop up books are great for exposing them to Chinese.

This series of DVD's are very popular for teaching Babies and Toddlers Chinese. Baby Learns Chinese, DVD, Level 1,2,3 & Flashcards Bundle and Baby Learns Chinese, DVD, Level 4,5,6 & Flashcards Bundle (green). They use a full immersion style of teaching Chinese. What I like is they also include Flash Cards so a parent is involved in the Teaching of Chinese to their kids. I am a big proponent of having parental involvement/interaction with children.

A longer article with Learning Chinese Tips for Babies and Toddlers

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"Bao Bei" means baby. Interestingly, bao bei also means precious one, and treasure.

We now have several coloring pictures all about your bao bei.

Go print these out and spend time with your bao bei coloring these pictures:

• bao bei Chinese character
• bao bei holding a panda doll
• bao bei with pet dog
• reading a bedtime story to bao bei
• you are my bao bei

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Fun NY Times article to read about how many US college graduates are going to China to find jobs. And they are getting in at higher levels than they would in the US. New Graduates Finding Jobs in China (Mandarin Optional). Of course once they get there they learn Mandarin. I just had a phone call from Shanghai on Friday ordering some learning Chinese Materials for children because there was a lack of such material for teaching native English speaking Children Chinese.

It was challenging what to recommend since their kids already had some exposure (being there for two years). The consensus agreement was My First Chinese Words Set (36 Books + Audio CD), Simplified Chinese since a Teacher's Guide was available in English.

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Forgot to tell you that we're excited over the arrival of the newly released Baby Learns Chinese 2nd set of DVDs and flashcards.

Yay!

The set includes DVDs number 4-6 and Flash cards set II.

The learning principles used with this Learning Chinese for baby is also from the Doman school of thought that believes babies can learn another language and can read if you just spend some time everyday helping them read in big figures. The Doman learning principles are not confined to just language but other cognitive abilities. The Doman book I have is the one about teaching baby mathematics. Exciting book, that one.

What I'd really like to share is the story about the inspiration behind the production of the "Baby Learns Chinese" materials. This is written by the founder, Ms. Yama Chan:

"After reading the book "How to Teach your Baby to Read" by Dr. Glenn Doman, I started using the flash card method to teach my twin boys how to recognize Chinese characters and English words. They were almost 1 year old at that time. I found that even though my boys could not speak yet, they were able to recognize the Chinese characters after seeing them a few times. It actually took them longer to learn English words. I think my boys found Chinese characters easier to remember because Chinese words are inherently images. To them, each Chinese character is, as long as the character relates to things that are familiar with in everyday life, they had no problems recognizing and reading the characters. By age 2, my boys were able to recognize about 100 Chinese characters. They are 6 now and they love reading Chinese books."

Ms. Chan then proceeded to team up with other parents and educators to spread this method to other families that want their kids to learn Chinese well and early.

Come see the newest Baby Learns Chinese DVDs 4-6

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Baby's First Words in Chinese, CD was designed by a group of language experts for newborn to two year old babies. I just added an audio sample as well as a widget that shows 16 pages of the 94 page booklet that comes with the CD.

It's nice Baby's First Words in Chinese includes a guide for the parents on how to bring up their child bilingually. Really nice touch that it would be nice if other products also included this!

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What Learning Chinese for Baby product should you choose?

May customers are choosing:

Baby Learns Chinese, DVD, Level 1,2,3 & Flashcards Bundle

and/or

Little Pim: Playtime, 3-Pack Bundle, Learning Chinese for Babies, toddlers, and preschoolers

Both have many positives and you can see a sample for each of them.

Baby Learns Chinese is based on theories of Dr. Glenn Doman with his ideal of a Gentle Revolution. His first book, How to Teach Your Baby to Read, presented the revolutionary idea that tiny children can learn to read since it's is easiest for them to absorb new information, from birth to six.

What Baby Learns Chinese has done is present Chinese Characters within the video and include Chinese flash cards. Flash cards are a great addition since this adds real person interaction to the Learning Chinese process, that is so helpful.

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Toddler Chinese, or teaching your rapidly growing in intellect toddler, and moving around, sampling the world and learning at an amazing rate is a great way to give them an advantage. This NY Magazine article Parents are Teaching Their Infants Chinese to Compete in the global Economy is just documenting the many parents who are teaching their children Mandarin at a very young age, yes babies and toddlers are learning Chinese Mandarin.

Products which have gotten very good reviews for teaching Chinese to toddler and babies are (their are even previews on the page):

				Baby Learns Chinese, DVD, Level 1,2,3 & Flashcards Bundle
				List Price: $86.56 Our Price: $86.56 Sale Price: $68.99 You Save $17.57!
				Would you like your Baby to talk Chinese words instead of Googoo-gaga? Play this Mandarin DVD made especially for babies and Toddlers Chinese language immersion on DVD for babies Fun and very visible images for babies Clear pronunciation Narrated entirely in Mandarin Read on to see what our customers say about Baby Learns Chinese DVD Bundle

				Little Pim: Playtime, 3-Pack Bundle, Learning Chinese for Babies, toddlers, and preschoolers
				Our Price: $74.85 Sale Price: $49.95 You Save $24.90!
				Recommended for babies, toddlers and preschoolers Teaches vocabulary to express basic needs, like "I'm hungry," "Let's play" or "Time to wake up." Entertaining Chinese language immersion method for children Features hundreds of Chinese Words and Phrases Narrated entirely in Mandarin (with English sub-titles) Set includes 3pcs DVD

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Teaching Babies a foreign language is a great opportunity that should not be misssed. Babies brains are expanding so fast that they can add a lot of information, such as a 2nd language very quickly.

Even if your not a native speaker, it's still possible to expose your child to a second language and you may be surprised on what they learn!

Two DVD's that I recommend for starting for Chinese for Babies are (both have samples you can watch on their page):

				Baby Learns Chinese, DVD, Level 1,2,3 & Flashcards Bundle
				List Price: $86.56 Our Price: $86.56 Sale Price: $68.99 You Save $17.57!
				Would you like your Baby to talk Chinese words instead of Googoo-gaga? Play this Mandarin DVD made especially for babies and Toddlers Chinese language immersion on DVD for babies Fun and very visible images for babies Clear pronunciation Narrated entirely in Mandarin Read on to see what our customers say about Baby Learns Chinese DVD Bundle

				Little Pim: Playtime, 3-Pack Bundle, Learning Chinese for Babies, toddlers, and preschoolers
				Our Price: $74.85 Sale Price: $49.95 You Save $24.90!
				Recommended for babies, toddlers and preschoolers Teaches vocabulary to express basic needs, like "I'm hungry," "Let's play" or "Time to wake up." Entertaining Chinese language immersion method for children Features hundreds of Chinese Words and Phrases Narrated entirely in Mandarin (with English sub-titles) Set includes 3pcs DVD

For the more advanced, I have a section with products by age 0-3 Baby Learning Chinese Books & DVD's

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Little Pim: Playtime, 3-Pack Bundle, Learning Chinese for Babies, toddlers, and preschoolers is really well done. It was created by the daughter of Pimsleur (famous for Learning Foreign Language Materials).

Ground breaking video for teaching babies, toddlers and preschoolers

Total immersion experience and offers hours of fun for you and your little ones

DVD is entirely in Mandarin with English sub-titles available. Great design!

It even has places to stop in the video for review. It's a carefully designed series for Learning Chinese for the young ones. I have even heard good feedback from parents that they learned some Chinese watching it!

The first DVD covers eating and drinking, the second Wake Up Smiling (DVD 2), and Playtime (DVD 3).

Baby Learns Chinese, DVD, Level 1,2,3 & Flashcards also uses full immersion for teaching, and adds Chinese Characters with the belief that the very young can also learn them. Dr. Glenn Doman, author of the best selling books on early childhood learning, including "How to Teach Your Baby to Read". Research has shown that children from birth to age 6 learn languages at an extraordinary rate.

Using Music for Learning Chinese is a great way. Songs for Learning Chinese - CD/Tape With Book Sets has a table comparing different products. Some have famous songs in English and Chinese along with a book. It's a great activities for parents and their child.

Reading to children is a great way to expose them to a language. A great touch book is I Won't Bite. One of my favorite books.

There are two school of thoughts on Bilingual Material. One is it makes the reader a bit lazy. The other is it's a great way to pick up the meaning.

Coloring Pictures are a fun way to learn a bit of Chinese.

These are really well done:

				Learning Chinese Coloring/Activity Book, Simplified Characters
				Our Price: $12.00
				(simplified characters) Chinese For Children, A Coloring/Activity Book Learns Fruits, Colors, and Numbers Designed especially for young children Author has two Master Degrees and has experience in public and private schools.
				Learning Chinese Coloring/Activity Book, Traditional Characters
				Our Price: $12.00
				Chinese For Children, A Coloring/Activity Book Learns Fruits, Colors, and Numbers Designed especially for young children Author has two Master Degrees and has experience in public and private schools.

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