考拉华文乐学园

28/11/2020

抓周 (Zhuazhou) is one of the most important traditional customs on a child's first birthday anniversary in China. It is a ceremony that parents place an assortment of articles in front of their child, and the child is to choose from the articles. What the child has chosen is said to determine his or her future inclination and capabilities.

Measuring Tape – Designer / Architect
Sword – Law Enforcement / Soldier
Green Onion – Intelligent [green onion (蔥 cōng) and intelligent (聰 cōng) are homophones]
Stethoscope – Doctor
Abacus – Businessperson
Chicken – Food Security
Yuanbao [(元寶) money used in ancient China] – A life of fortune
Book – Scholar
Calligraphy Pen – Writer
Stamp – Civil Servant
Peanuts – Long Life
Microphone – Entertainer
Celery – Industrious [celery (芹 qín) and industrious (勤 qín) are homophones]

With Koala Know, the student learns how to speak Chinese like a native.

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28/11/2020

Almost every student knows 今天 (today), 明天 (tomorrow) and 昨天 (yesterday). But do they know how to say the other days before 昨天 and after 明天?

With Koala Know, the student learns how to speak Chinese like a native.

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Tips: there is a Chinese literacy test in the link which can assess the rough number of Chinese characters the student recognizes. It takes no more than 1min and is worth trying.

27/11/2020

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Newsmy 60A 纽曼汉字听写宝60A

The product aims to let students master 3,000 Chinese characters which are covered by P1-P6 syllabus in China. When a character is pointed, the device shows its Pinyin, Chinese explanation, and sample sentence, as well as the stroke order. More importantly, all the contents are pronounced by the device, which means the student is able to learn independently.

One highlighted feature of Newsmy 60A is the character dictation function, which can help the student not only recognize but also know how to correctly write each Chinese character. The student can do dictation practice for a selected lesson, page or group of characters.

25/11/2020

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Kitablo Chinese Character Fan Dui Dui 汉字翻对对

Learn 400 Chinese characters with this game of memory. To make a match, each player needs to remember where each character is and more importantly knows how to pronounce each character correctly. Parents will be impressed by how excited the kids are during the game. To win the game, kids need to stay focused and will unintentionally memorize the characters on the cards.

You could create your own game with these cards. They are very well-designed flash cards with nice pictures, HYPY, English translations and phrases. The cards are easy to carry which makes them great for travel use.

25/11/2020

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Luka Hero Reading Robot 卢卡Hero绘本阅读机器人

Built with cutting-edge AI technology, Luka® the reading robot, reads aloud books put in front of him, page by page, in any order. Luka® is a fun interactive reading companion, which helps kids to develop their reading skills in an engaging way, and makes kids fall in love with their very own books by adding another dimension to the reading experience.

Luka® can recognize over 20,000 English picture books and 70,000 Chinese titles (and counting!). Besides those books in Luka® Cloud Library, you can also read and record any picture books by yourself, and Luka® will be able to read books in your voice.

Luka® Hero's Additional Functions:
- Read and repeat function
- Point and read function

See detailed review by Lah Lah Banana :

Review of Luka Hero and comparison with the original Luka Reading robot. Luka Hero can read Chinese children’s books, and recognise any written Chinese characters, including handwriting. Clic…

25/11/2020

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Youdao Dictionary Pen 2.0 有道词典笔2.0

High Efficiency - Quick translation between CN↔EN at the moment you scan, 15 times faster than referring to a paper-based dictionary. Up to 98% of the accurate recognition rate. Recognize traditional/simplified Chinese and English in various fonts. Support multi-media scanning, including paper, digital screen, label, and wooden surface, etc.

High Translation Accuracy - With more than 10 years of expertise. Self-developed Youdao Neural Machine Translation (YNMT) translates like a human, not a machine. Real person pronunciation (American and British accents) helps to improve listening and speaking.

Paragraph Translation - Provide instant and fluent long sentence translation. Host more than 2.3 Million Entries. Real person pronunciation (American and British accents) helps to improve listening and speaking.

Offline Translation - Perform well without an internet connection. Distractions free. Provide an attentive and fully immersive learning experience.

See detailed review by Lah Lah Banana:

Youdao Smart Pen translates any printed text effortlessly and fluently from Chinese into English and vice versa – and it does it miles better than Google Translate.

30/09/2020

Koala Know - Story Book Reading
Mid-Autumn Festvial

27/09/2020

The character for "mouth" in Chinese is the shape of an open mouth. As a radical, it is used for characters to do with the mouth or opening or containers.

26/09/2020

This character is created by stacking three running horses. It means many horses running together. Cannot be more straightforward, right?

With Koala Know, students learn Chinese by understanding it.