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Resources
Consistent
with our mission to be the best resource for languages and cultures,
Culture for Kids offers interesting articles, fact sheets, guidelines,
and activities for parents and educators.
World
Facts -- For brief facts about 267 countries, we recommend
the CIA World Factbook as the most famous online resource of maps,
flags and comprehensive collection of information. It is updated
annually. (http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook)
Multicultural
Holidays -- Not sure when the Chinese New Year is? No problem,
check out our multicultural calendar.
Chinese zodiac --
What is your Chinese Zodiac signs? Click here to learn more.
Should your child be bilingual?
Check out our Parents'
Corner on how to approach it.
Are you looking for materials
for your school or library? Then, visit our Teachers'
Corner for information on how
to place an order.
Some of
the languages offered in materials available from Culture For
Kids:
According
to the latest 2000 Census, Spanish and Chinese make up two of
the most spoken lanuages at home after English!
- Arabic - Used throughout the Middle East and countries with large Muslim populations
- Bengali
- the language of Bangladesh, also widely spoken in Calcutta,
India
- Cantonese
- Chinese spoken in Guangdong province
- Farsi
- the language of Iran
- Filipino
- the national language of the Philippines since 1987 and based
on Tagalog with some English and Spanish
- Hmong
- (pronounced Mong) The language of the Hmong people from Laos,
Vietnam, & Thailand
- Ilokano
- One of the major languages of the Philippines
- Khmer
- the language of Cambodia
- Mandarin
Chinese
-Chinese spoken in most of Mainland China, Taiwan, & Singapore
- Tagalog
- One of the major languages of the Philippines spoken in and
around Manila
- Hindi
- Official language of India with many dialects
- Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Urdu - Some of the many other languages spoken in India
- Somali
- Spoken in Somalia
- Serbo-Croatian - Spoken by those in some areas of former Yugoslavia
Facts about Chinese:
- Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese use the same
characters.
- Traditional Chinese characters - used in Taiwan, Hong
Kong, Japan and Korea and many other Asian countries
- Simplified Chinese characters - used in Mainland China,
Singapore & Malaysia
- Pinyin (Hanyu Pinyin) - Romanization
of Chinese used in mainland China
- Zhuyin (Bopomofo) - phonetic symbols
used for Mandarin Chinese used in Taiwan
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