Color me intrigued
Nick Jr. is starting a new show to teach Mandarin (ala Dora) in October.
This could either be very, very good, or very, very bad. I’ve been wanting a show like this for a very long time (Japanese would be nice, but my bizarre pseudo-Chinese upbringing makes this just as good - plus I know enough Mandarin to be able to push it a bit, should MM get interested), as have a lot of parents. I’m encouraged by the fact that there’s a Chinese-American woman at the helm, at least - it could go very bad at the level of ‘cultural information’, but that’s also where it could go very right.
I’ll definitely be watching.
August 23rd, 2007 at 1:11 pm
I read about this too - wish I could find a Korean equivalent though! Either way, I’m curious to check this one out…
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August 23rd, 2007 at 3:14 pm
I know! I can understand why Mandarin on an intellectual level, but I’d kill for something like this in other languages. It’s too bad that Dora hasn’t caught on in Korea and/or Japan, and that they might do their *own* versions…
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