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When Is Moon Festival 2013?
Moon Festival or popularly known as Mid Autumn Festival 2013 will be celebrated on September 19, 2013
Learn more about the background of the Moon Festival here and know about the beautiful and meaningful story behind the celebration.
We have compiled a list of Moon Festival celebrations in the US and Canada for 2013:
Arizona
Seventh
Annual National Day an Mid Chinese -Autumn Celebration
Sunday, September 22, 2013 - 5:00pm - 9:00pm
Memorial Union Arizona Ballroom, ASU Tempe Campus
Please join the ASU Confucius Institute
and the Arizona Chinese United Association (ACUA) for the 7th Arizona Chinese
National Day/Mid-Autumn celebration event. Winning and outstanding
drawings and photos from two ASU CI contests will be exhibited at this
celebration.
This event is free
and open to the public.
http://confuciusinstitute.asu.edu/portal/
Celebrate Chinese Culture Underneath a Full Moon
The 10th Annual Chinese Moon Festival
Thursday, September 19, 2013 from 6:00 - 8:00 pm
| Free | Heritage House | 8193 Magnolia Ave.,
Riverside
San Francisco Chinatown
Presented by the SF Chinatown Merchants
Association
At&t Autumn Moon Festival
Street Fair
September 14th - 15th,
2013 /11am-6pm
Los Angeles
Los Angeles Chinatown
Annual
Mid-Autumn Moon Festival
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Central & West Plaza
943-951 N. Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90012
http://www.chinatownla.com/calendar.php
A Great & Affordable Learning Chinese Book for Babies
The most common problems that parents who want to teach their kids Chinese have is looking for affordable learning Chinese books. ChildBook.com addresses that problem by providing quality learning materials for parents and teachers to use for their kids and students.
Here are few of my suggestions on great and affordable learning Chinese books for kids and babies:
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| Baby Learns Chinese, DVD, Level 1,2,3 & Flashcards Bundle Blue |
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Our Price: $56.80
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This DVD set teaches 140+ Chinese words
DVD1- Body, Counting, Shapes and Colors
DVD2- Fruits and Food
DVD3- Farm Animals and Wild Animals
Flashcards I
- The Doman method, used in the DVD, has proven countless times, yes, babies can learn to read!
- Babies can read because Chinese characters are just like pictures!
See sample video clip inside
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| Kids Learn Chinese Phonics, DVD, Level 1,2,3 & Flashcards Bundle Red Baby Learns Chinese |
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- Great way to Learn Chinese phonics!
- The Doman method, used in the DVD, has been proven countless times to work for Learning to read at a young age.
- The next step after Baby Learns Chinese DVD Series.
See sample video clip
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Aircraft Carriers in the Pacific
Air Pollution Choking Chinese Tourism
Chinese Valentine's Day 2013: August 13, 2013
Happy Chinese Valentine's Day!
August 13, 2013 is this year's Chinese Valentine's Day. It's a great day to teach your kids about the Chinese Valentine's day celebration. This Chinese festival is also called Qixi Festival or Qipao Festival.
This day marks the Chinese legendary story where the young couple, cowherd and weaver girl meets in the sky to celebrate their love for each other. Their love were forbidden and to separate them, both were exiled to opposite directions of the Universe but once a year, the magpies who took pity on them forms a bridge between two Universe so the cowhere and the weaver girl could meet. This falls on the seventh night of the seventh moon which coined the term Double Seventh Festival.
Read more in details the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver girl here.
Give your students a nice Chinese Valentine's day treat with our Free Coloring Pages here.
Map of Vice in 1885 in SF's Chinatown
College Debt - Value Varies
Great article! A point not mentioned, was about 50% of people who start college, do not finish. The completion rate depends on the college. A key point is the person going to college needs to know why they are going. To just get a college degree, for most people, is not a good answer.
For some, college not worth the debt: Column - USA Today Labels: college, college admissions
Lenovo Laptop Hinge Issues
I bought some Lenevo Laptops for my employees, but they seem to have a hinge issue. It's a shame, since I have such great memories of a ThinkPad that is super heavy duty. The hinge issue looks like a design defect with too much stress being put on 1 screw located near the left hinge.
The laptop in question is only a couple of months old. I have owned / used laptops for over 15 years, and I have never seen this type of issue. I have probably had at least 10 laptops.
Anyway, Lenovo Tech Support's answer is they will fix it, but if there is any evidence of dropping they will charge you.
So should I try that, or get it fixed by a local repair place for around $100? And the question is how long will it take Lenovo to repair. Labels: lenovo, made in china
Learning Chinese Books & Chinese Reading Materials
School days are coming and you must be in the look out for effective and helpful learning Chinese books- textbooks, workbooks, story books and so on to help your child master a second language.
You can be one of the two types of parents right now. Either you know what your child needs (based on the school curriculum) or you have absolutely no idea. Either way, I can definitely help you. I've been on this road many times and I know what Chinese books fit what age.
I've categorized the Chinese textbooks and resources that I sell at www.childbook.com according to age for easy access.
For 0-2 years old, Chinese learning materials that I can suggest are as follows:
Mandy and Pandy book series
Guess How Much I Love You
I Love You like Crazy Cakes
Elmer's Colors
For 3-5 years old, I can suggest the following Chinese reading materials:
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