Ni Hau, Kai-lan!
I'm SOOOOO excited!!! February 7th is Chinese New Year and The Year of the Rat. No, I'm not a rat, Keira and I are both actually Roosters and Dan is a Dragon (poor Dan being surrounded by us Roosters lol). What I'm so excited over is that Nick Jr. is coming out with a brand new show for it's regular line-up that will be debuting for Chinese New Year! It's called "Ni Hau, Kai-lan!" and it's about a little 5 year old Chinese girl that teaches pre-schoolers about Chinese culture as well as words in Mandarin. Think Dora the Explorer, but for Asian Children. I think that it will be wonderful for Keira and other Asian children to have a cartoon character that they can identify with. Can you just imagine the marketing that will be out there??? I think it would also be great for her to learn some words in Mandarin....as a matter of fact, Dan and I are excited to learn a few words here and there as well!
Everytime Keira and I see the commercial, we wave and say "Ni Hau!" ,which means "Hello!" in Mandarin. See? It starts already! :)
Anyway, hopefully all of you will get a chance to check it out when it comes out. Here is a link with more infomation on the show.
http://www.nickjr.com/shows/ni-hao-kai-lan/kai-lan-about-the-show/ni-hao-kai-lan-about-the-show.jhtml
3 comments:
We haven't seen any commercials for it yet but we're anxiously awaiting its start! Jess says I love you in Mandarin and she sometimes calls Jason Gege which is older brother. I hope this cartoon does really well.
I know!! We've seen commercials for the show. I'm going to record it for Marissa too!
I am from the Netherlands & since a week or two we have Ni-Hau Kai Lan on Nick Jr. as well! My allmost 3yo girl loves Kai Lan! So i tried to find something about it & ended up reading your blog :D
I'm 100% Dutch (round gouda-cheese figure & all haha), but my husband is half Javanese & we think it's important that she experiences some asian knowledge in her upgrowing.
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