Yoshito Darmon-Shimamori is a language educator and the author of The Parents’ Guide to Raising Multi-literate Children. In this conversation, Yoshito shares his bilingual story growing up, his multilingual story with his kids, and his new book along with resources for parents and educators to guide children to read and write in the target language(s) and reach the goal to raise multi-literate kids.
Guest: Yoshito Darmon-Shimamori
Book: The Parents’ Guide to Raising Multi-literate Children
Website: Library4Multilinguals
HOST of the PLAYFUL CHINESE Podcast
is Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett and many parents and children know her as "Miss Panda."
You can visit Miss Panda and explore her resources at Miss Panda Chinese. Her NEW book is First Mandarin Sounds: an awesome Chinese word book that helps parents to guide kids to acquire first Chinese words and essential Mandarin sounds in a playful and literacy-building approach.
The theme music for the podcast is composed and performed by Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett "Miss Panda." The title of the song is “Hello Nǐ Hǎo” and it is the title song in the “Let’s Learn Mandarin Chinese with Miss Panda!” MP3 and streaming album and you can listen to the album on Amazon, iTunes, Spotify, GooglePlay, and all major streaming platforms.
Music credit: (interview)
"Somewhere Sunny" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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