A Love So Beautiful Theme Song

This is a sweet song to sing with your little ones. Here are the lyrics to “我多喜歡你 你會知道”, A Love So Beautiful theme song in Traditional Chinese, Pinyin, and English. Read More

Fruity Pie Soundtrack

Unlike typical ear-piercing Chinese children’s songs, the Fruity Pie Soundtrack features modern melodies and lyrics. Fruity Pie (水果冰淇淋) is an award winning education show for preschool age children produced in Taiwan. My son use to watch the show and I’d catch myself humming the tunes as I cleaned. We borrowed the CD from the library Read More

Xiamen High School Choir

Since Mother’s Day, my daughter has been singing and listening to 我的好媽媽. I even hear her singing it from her bed at night. In the car we listen to the same 儿歌 CD on repeat. Repeat. Repeat… I needed to find some new tunes, and quickly before lose my mind. I spent half the day Read More

感謝: Our Preschool Graduation Song

Just like that the last 5 years have flown by and my baby is going to Kindergarten. His preschool is preparing a graduation ceremony and the class will sing a song. I like to follow along with the schools curriculum at home. My hope is that it will  boost their confidence when they realize they Read More

Father’s Day Song & Lyrics

My son’s preschool class is learning 爸爸,去哪儿? for their Father’s Day performance. I found the music video on YouTube and downloaded the MP3 file for our C-Pen. I also created lyric sheets so that we can read along as we listen to the audio from the C-Pen. Our C-Pen is now an expensive music player! Read More

The Moon Represents My Heart

What can I say? I love this song! Who doesn’t love The Moon Represents My Heart “月亮代表我的心” by Teresa Teng. The song starts up and my chest tightens. It conjures memories of my childhood, those quilted Chinese jackets my grandma made me wear, Taiwan in the early 80’s, mopeds zipping down dusty roads… It makes Read More

Chinese New Year Song for kids

Here’s my Spotify playlist of Chinese New Year music! Just kidding. Frankly, I’m not big on holiday music and even avoid malls after Thanksgiving. How can anyone shop with “Jingle Bells” playing on repeat? It did cross my mind that perhaps the kids should listen to some Chinese New Year music. After a quick search Read More

Chinese Songs for kids: Learn To Meow

According to Google Trends, the top search term related to “learn Chinese” on YouTube is “learn to meow”.  This insight is gathered from worldwide search data for 2018. Data from the United States included no meows, just a boring query for “how to learn Chinese”. As of today the top video result on YouTube for Read More

Fruity Pie

One of my favorite children’s shows that you can watch on Youtube is 水果冰淇淋 (Fruity Pie). This show is the longest running preschool program since it’s first episode aired in 1998. The main characters are four curious puppets and their grandmother. Granny Fruity Pie is played by 趙自強 (Chao Tsu Chiang). He is a supporting actor in Read More