ABC Kids to offer preschool programs in Mandarin
The ABC will offer four popular preschool television shows in Mandarin as part of a 12-month trial on ABC iview.
The announcement:
ABC is excited to announce that four of our most popular preschool programs will be available in Mandarin as part of a 12-month trial on ABC iview and ABC KIDS iview to celebrate the Year of the Rooster.
I guess our population is multi culteral now so it will be of benefit to some. However if migrants move to Australia shouldnt they be expected to learn English to assimilate. Surely this would be better learnt at a pre school age.
You would think so… I don’t see the benefits to pre-school kids having Australian produced programs in another language other than the language of country that they are in. Consistency is key for young brains to develop quickly.
My one year old son enjoys watching Playschool. It’s great for his English language development. It is the best show in this age group because it has 2 real people interacting with each other so one year olds learn the most from this sort of show as opposed to cartoons. My wife speaks Mandarin Chinese. She spends a lot of time away from home and I don’t speak Chinese. To help my son continue his Chinese language development I put on abc kids mandarin shows, but they are not nearly as beneficial as playschool because they don’t have two real people interacting with each other showing real actions and facial expressions. I’m wondering if I can suggest the ABC also have Mandarin Chinese episodes. Why not? There are libraries in Sydney that have mandarin speaking programs so why can’t the ABC do mandarin speaking Chinese episodes of playschool too? I think there are many mandarin speaking children in Australia and many that want to learn so I think this would be hugely successful.