Sandy the Crab's Little Audio Library

This track is the English audio accompaniment for the book Vegetables! My First Chinese English Nursery Rhymes Collection! - 蔬菜！我的第一本中英文童谣集. The paperback book was released for sale on our littlecrabpress.ca website and on Amazon in December of 2023 . Mandarin poem recitations will be provided as a separate track.

In this track you will hear the English version of 26 nursery rhymes which focus on one vegetable per letter of the alphabet. (Ex. A = Alfalfa sprouts /苜蓿芽, B = Broccoli / 西兰花.) In cases where there is no English word that fits the theme for a given letter, which is often the case with letters such as Q/X/Y/Z, then Pinyin is used for that letter. For example, in this set of poems, X is for Baby Bok Choi because in Pinyin it is "Xiǎo Bái Cài", (小白菜).

These 26 poems are completely original works, lovingly co-written by certified Mandarin and English teachers Zhang Xianjing and Rebecca Juetten. While the rhyming patterns do not always align in both languages, the poems were written "congruently" as opposed to one after the other, such that neither language is a translation of the other. In other words, the poems were co-written to correspond in meaning line by line as accurately as possible while still maintaining a rhyming structure.

If you wish to hear the words pronounced slower or faster, simply decrease or increase the playback speed.

如果您希望听到单词发音更慢或更快，只需降低或提高播放速度即可。

Little Crab Educational Press presents - Simplified Chinese Vocabulary Study System: Holiday Series. Audio for ABCs of CHRISTMAS   圣 诞 节   Shèng Dàn Jié. Copyright 2023, all rights reserved.

First Section:

中文, Mandarin - Starting at 0:21. A slow but still fairly natural pace. There is enough time between each word to repeat it once.

Second Section:

英文, English - Starting at 2:15. A slow but still fairly natural pace. There is enough time between each word to repeat it once. The plural and singular form of relevant nouns are both spoken.

Third Section:

中文和英文在一起, Chinese and English together - Starting at 4:45. A relaxed, natural pace. The Chinese word is said first, then the corresponding English word is said second. There is enough time given between each word to repeat the Chinese pronunciation once, or to challenge yourself and say the word in English before the “answer” is spoken.

Little Crab Educational Press presents: "The 10 Special Sounds in Mandarin - Tutorial"

We created this brief introductory tutorial (mainly in English) to help English speakers better understand the sounds that are the trickiest for most learners to grasp when developing a correct (or at the very least comprehensible!) Mandarin accent. This track is great for new beginners or as a refresher for more advanced beginners looking to improve their pronunciation.

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Little Crab Educational Press presents: "Mandarin Chinese Pronunciation - in a Nutshell"

We created this brief introductory tutorial (in English) to help demystify Mandarin for English speakers by highlighting key similarities and differences between both languages. This track is great for absolute beginners who would benefit from an overview of how Mandarin and English are alike and are different before starting on their language learning journey!

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