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a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com

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By Geeks out of the Box Posted on May 9, 2019

Mandarin

Categories: MandarinTags: Chinese, Mandarin
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on December 13, 2018December 13, 2018

Chinese tongue twister

Simon saying a Chinese tongue twister that means: 4 = 4, 10 = 10, 14 = 14, 40 = 40.

Categories: MandarinTags: Chinese, Mandarin, tongue twister
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on October 14, 2018October 15, 2018

Practicing Chinese calligraphy

Simon uses this book for his Mandarin lessons.

Categories: Mandarin, Writing and calligraphyTags: calligraphy, Chinese, homeschooling, Mandarin
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on October 10, 2017

Chienese and pancakes

  From the wonderful set “Chineasy”. Simon says he knows about 100 characters, not sure that’s true.

Categories: Mandarin, Writing and calligraphyTags: calligraphy, Chineasy, Chinese, homeschooling, Mandarin
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on September 21, 2017

Happy Birthday to Dad in Chinese

Simon created this animation in Codea during his Chinese lesson, to congratulate Dad on his 40th birthday.   And this was a task he came with after the vacation:

Categories: Codea, Mandarin, Writing and calligraphyTags: Chinese, chinese characters, Mandarin
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on July 18, 2017July 18, 2017

Playing memory in Chinese

Categories: MandarinTags: Chinese, homeschooling, Mandarin
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on July 12, 2017

Chinese Lessons

Simon will continue with his weekly Chinese practices throughout the summer.  

Categories: Lingua franca, MandarinTags: Chinese, homeschooling, Mandarin
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on May 1, 2017

Chinese

Simon’s progress in Chinese over the last couple of weeks. It’s funny how he writes neat cursive English words alongside the characters during the Mandarin lessons but hates writing cursive … Continue reading Chinese

Categories: Mandarin, Writing and calligraphyTags: calligraphy, Chinese, Mandarin
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on March 7, 2017

Chinese homework

Simon doing his Chinese homework: And here’s the same homework corrected by the tutor:

Categories: Lingua franca, Mandarin, Writing and calligraphyTags: calligraphy, Chinese, chinese characters, chinese karakters, Mandarin
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on February 6, 2017February 6, 2017

Chinese lesson

Our Chinese teacher is back!

Categories: Mandarin, Writing and calligraphyTags: calligraphy, Chinese, Mandarin
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on December 13, 2016December 16, 2016

Chinese and French

Categories: French, Mandarin, UncategorizedTags: Chinese, French
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on October 31, 2016

Tea with sugar

This weekend was marked with another milestone: Simon read his first Chinese sentence without pinyin.  

Categories: Mandarin, MilestonesTags: Chinese, Mandarin

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