Recommended Chinese Study Books for Children
Easy Peasy Chinese: Mandarin Chinese for Beginners
by Dorling Kindersley (Book & CD) (Paperback) from £5.79
This is a lovely book for children. Each page is full of colourful illustrations and photographs to reinforce Children’s learning. The CD provides an indispensible aid to acquiring authentic pronunciation with lovely and cheerful music to ensure Children get ample practice in the tones, pronunciation, vocabulary and sentence patterns in a fun way without being overwhelming. This book will get Children speaking, reading and writing simple but useful Chinese right from the beginning. The book itself is about A5 size, and the CD comes slotted inside the front cover.
Easy Steps to Chinese: Textbook v. 1
by Yamin Ma and Xinying Li (Paperback) from £15.95
Fun and effective, this excellent textbook series adopts an exciting new approach to learn Chinese as a foreign language. The task-based program, designed by the authors of the popular Chinese Made Easy and Chinese Made Easy for Kids, is based on feedback and helpful suggestions from teachers who use those series in their classrooms. The new program includes careful pacing, up-to-date topics, attractive page designs, and practical tasks and activities. In the workbooks, students practice Pinyin and strokes, write Chinese characters, and more. Students acquire a vocabulary of 1,600 characters and confidence in speaking and writing Chinese. The series includes Textbook with an audio CD.