All the Free Stuff
We're happy you found this! This page houses both Our Little Freebie Library (our repository for all the Little-Crab-created resources, permanent offer codes, and digital products that we offer for free to our lovely list of email subscribers!) and the Little Audio Library (our small but growing collection of free audio accompaniments to our books).
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Save 15% when you purchase all 3 Study Chinese Gratitude Journal 感恩日记: 一年52个感恩提示 / 52 Writing Prompts for 1 Year of Thankfulness books from our Happy Place Collection
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Get our Vegetables - 蔬菜 - Alphabet Banner Cards Digital Download free with your purchase their companion book, Vegetables! My First Chinese English Nursery Rhymes Collection - 蔬菜!我的第一本中英文童谣集
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An Introduction to Chinese Handwriting
This overview includes these topics:
• Where Do I Begin? An Introduction to Handwriting
• Common Strokes in Chinese Characters
• How Do I Describe Different Parts of a Chinese Word?
…and offers a Review Activity
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Bilingual Boats Reading Comprehension Translation Sheets
This product will help you:
• improve your reading comprehension, vocabulary retention, writing skills and translating skills
• can be used to build a translation or composition notebook
• for use with any character-based language such as Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, etc.
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Do You Want to Play With Me? Bilingual Phrase Sheet
Simple words can mean so much. Knowing how to ask this one simple question and offer suggestions for how to have fun together is a powerful way to help someone belong: Share this with your kid/kids and empower them to include others who might otherwise not be included.
This sheet includes the phrase “Do you want to play together?” and vocabulary for common playground equipment.
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Friday Song Translation Sheet
With permission, we took an ear worm written and performed by @chinesekidssongs on Instagram and YouTube and translated it into English, Japanese, French, and Spanish. This song is an absolute bop, and the freebie includes a QR code to take you directly to the Instagram post where you can hear it (and teach it to your kids!).
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Holiday Themed Dual Language Reading Tracker Bundle
Our holiday themed trackers are interactive and instructive, offering children a chance to be creative (by colouring/designing a new picture each time they complete a book), while following instructions (of which types of books to track), culminating in a reward (to be decided with their grownup) for their hard work and dedication.
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How to Play Pretend with Your Kids Cheat Sheet
From the blog post “3 Steps to Creating Nonviolent Storylines for Make-Believe Games”, this cheat sheet walks you through Step 1 (establish the Who, When, and Where), Step 2 (establish the What), and Step 3 (fill in the How and What Happens Next).
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Interlined Handwriting & Character Practice Exercise Book Style Sheets
Each page of our beginner level handwriting practice exercise book sheets is either a full or half sheet of interlined writing space or large-scale grid boxes, including half sheets designed to encourage young learners to create something visual to complement their writing.
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Language Learner Activity Guide: Leveraging Radio
• 5 Gamify-able lesson activities for classrooms, smaller groups of students, or self-study using radio
• Navigation Hack: How to jump to the audio without having to navigate (often clunky) websites
• BONUS summary and list of 9 Mandarin Radio Stations that feature children's programming from around the globe plus access to over 40 Mandarin radio stations worldwide with regular news and cultural content
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M & E Dialogue Clarification Cheat Sheet Pack
This cheat sheet delivers:
• instructions in English, Simplified Chinese, and Pinyin
• 10 example questions for clarifying your translation troubles (again, in English, Simplified Chinese, and Pinyin)
• a follow-up activity to put it into practice
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Motivational Chéng Yǔ Memory Game
This game encourages players:
• to research
• to engage in interactive learning
• to exercise their memory skills and helps players learn 10 new 成语 - chéng yǔ that speak to perseverance, positive mindset, and motivation
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Seven Skills Daily Study Strategy Tracker
All of our products are built around some or all of the Seven Language Skills (Speaking, Listening, Reading, Writing, Grammar, Vocabulary, Pronunciation), and we built this tracker around the concept of utilizing all of those skills in your language study to create a balanced, well-rounded understand and knowledge of your target language.
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Simple Conversation Translation Practice Bilingual Boats
We have pre-filled our proprietary Bilingual Boats sheets with a simple conversation to practice Mandarin translation at two difficulty levels designed for you to practice individual character translations and make notes on definitions, grammar, and pronunciation.
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Story Extending Conversation Questions
Daunted by the idea of entertaining kids while travelling? Perhaps, once upon a time, that scenario didn't play out so well for you. Fear not, weary traveller, we've got you covered: Make getting there half the fun with our 6 Awesome Ways to “Stretch” Your Kids’ Storybooks! This list provides over 15 questions you can use to dive deeper into the storybooks you are reading with your children and active and engage their literacy skills on a deeper level.
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TV Show Viewing Study Sheet for Any Language
• keep the characters in order
• learn some story and TV show terminology
• help you to jog your memory about the plot when you have to take a pause in-between episode viewings for any reason
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Welcome to my Classroom!
Whether for back-to-school, welcoming new students anytime throughout the year, or keeping skills sharp over the summer, this photocopiable, lesson-ready digital download is perfect for a classroom teacher or homeschool parent teaching English to Mandarin speaking students or teaching Mandarin to English speaking students.
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Vocabulary Study System: The Tortoise Tile Method
The Tortoise Tile Method allows you to:
• integrate new words into your lexicon more quickly
• organise words easily for convenient review
• sustain a longer retention timeline, and
• maintain a quicker recall ability
• and stay motivated!
Little Audio Library
Welcome! This is where you will be able to find readings of all of our children's books and vocabulary tracks for all of our vocabulary study books. We are working hard to update our audio library for you.
In this library the recordings will be offered both in video form and in the form of podcast episodes. We have done this to create flexibility in how you study or share the recordings, and so you can take our children's books or vocabulary study materials on the road with you!
Each video reading will have an introduction explaining the format of the videos and timestamps in the video's Audio Menu in the library to allow you to skip to the video section that interests you. The podcast is formatted with all pronunciation practice tracks in one episode for vocabulary books, and separate episodes for the Mandarin and English readings of our children's books.
We have created a tutorial called "Mandarin Pronunciation In a Nutshell" in English to help people understand the basic similarities and differences between pronunciation in English and Mandarin Chinese; the library starts there.
Find Sandy the Crab's Little Audio Library podcast wherever you stream by searching for "Little Audio Library" and be sure to check out our YouTube channel for these videos and much more!
Podcast Content
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Audio Menu
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- Section 1: Mandarin and English Have Similarities (0:50)
- Section 2: Mandarin is a Tonal Language (2:30)
- Section 3: There Are Sounds in Mandarin Not Found in English (4:37)
- Conclusion (5:04)
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Audio Menu
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- First Group of Sounds (0:20)
- Second Group of Sounds (2:46)
- Third Group of Sounds (3:20)
- Conclusion (4:45)
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Mandarin Narration
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English Narration
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Mandarin Recitations
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English Recitations
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Vocabulary read in Mandarin and English
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