We used to play dress-up and watch Chinese pop music videos to “sing” (attempted) along to. Here, Christine (4) and I (7) were watching the music video of a song by superstar Jay Chou! (We even sing his songs present day for our performances)
Music
2-2014: Music
Christine (7) and I (10) sang the Chinese version of “Let It Go”.
2-2018: Music
Since Atlanta has a large Chinese American community and we learned to play the guitar in North Carolina, we formed a family Chinese pop band “Tu & Only” or “杜ㄧ無二” in Chinese. Instead of only being consumers of Chinese content, we are now content producers and applying our Chinese language skills through entertainment and music to give back to the community.
5-2018: Music
“Tu & Only” performed for the Chinese Atlanta Medical Association’s symposium dinner.
7-2018: Public speaking & music
Our dad and we (Caroline 15, Christine 12) were invited to give a presentation on heritage children in the US learning Chinese at a southeast Taiwanese American summer retreat. Our band was also invited to play a few songs late afternoon. It was a great opportunity for every one of us to sharpen our public speaking and Chinese linguistic skill.
We were so happy that a few families across the country were following our footsteps and learning Chinese by leaps and bounds. Here is a video we presented at the meeting.
9-2018: Music
“Tu & Only” performed for the Taiwanese Night Market celebration in Norcross, GA, with over 3,000 visitors in 4 hours!
2-2019: Music
“Tu & Only” performed at three separate Chinese New Year celebrations in Atlanta. Here are the four songs we performed:
5-2019: Music
“Tu & Only” performed for Mother’s Day celebration.
9-2019: Music
Tu & Only” performed for the Taiwanese night market celebration in Norcross, GA. There were about 4,000 visitors in 5 hours for the event.
12-2019: Music
“Tu & Only” performed for the Atlanta Chinese Medical Society’s Christmas / New Year celebration, after practicing at least 15 hours for each song. We received an outstanding volunteering award for all the work we put into for the nonprofit organization.
應用中文 (Applied Chinese) 