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Baby Learns Chinese: Create Your Own Junior Achievement Olympian This Summer.


Language Program to Teach Young Children Chinese

LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  -- This summer the world's attention will be focused on China, the home of the 2008 Summer Olympics. The focus on China will extend beyond sports to China's culture and its complex language.

Learning Chinese provides a unique advantage to children. Currently, over one third of the world's population speaks Chinese. Chinese is the fastest growing language in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . And, China continues to grow as a major world economic power. Teaching young children the language will help them succeed in the world given the growing importance of this country and its language.

Baby Learns Chinese helps parents help their children. Research studies have shown that learning languages at an early age is significantly easier and improves children's standardized test A standardized test is a test administered and scored in a standard manner. The tests are designed in such a way that the "questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations are consistent" [1]  scores. And, unlike European languages which are focused on phonetic learning, Chinese language learning builds from memorization mem·o·rize  
tr.v. mem·o·rized, mem·o·riz·ing, mem·o·riz·es
1. To commit to memory; learn by heart.

2. Computer Science To store in memory:
, the capacity of a child to memorize is at its best when they are still young. Baby Learns Chinese helps young children maximize their potential to learn the language.

Baby Learns Chinese DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc.
DVD
 in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc

Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology.
 series teaches your child to speak Mandarin (Putonghua) and read the Chinese characters (both traditional and simplified to be selected by you). As each chapter unfolds, your child will build his/hers Chinese vocabulary and gain a head start in speaking and reading Chinese.

The Baby Learns Chinese system is comprised of three DVDs, Flash Cards and a Boxed set of all (3 DVD's and flash cards) geared at teaching young children the language. Baby Learns Chinese is the only language program in the market that teaches kids to not only speak but also read Chinese. It is a unique total language immersion The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter.
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 method of learning. While the product is geared towards children up to age six, it will work for any age target interested in learning Chinese (Mandarin).

Baby Learns Chinese launches to major retail accounts March 2008. For more information on supporting retailers or to purchase online see www.babylearnschinese.com

About Baby Learns Chinese

Baby Learns Chinese was created by Yama Chan as a way to teach her two young boys the language. By age two, her boys were able to read over 100 Chinese words. Ms Chan would like to bring this language learning method to all the parents that would like to teach their children Chinese. She brings a wealth of personal and business experience to her venture as Founder and Director of Chinese for Kids, Ltd. She grew up in Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov.  and has an appreciation for learning multiple languages. Ms. Chan graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. Commonly referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley and Cal  and earned a Master of Business Administration from The University of Chicago.
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