Children's Chinese (Book 1)

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Publishing Date: 2001-01-01
Features: Children's Chinese is a primary textbook designed for foreign children aged 3-6 to learn Chinese. This series consists of three volumes, each containing twenty lessons. The first volume focuses on pronunciation, with repeated practice of the four tones as fundamental training. The second and third volumes primarily introduce some basic sentence structures in Chinese, presented in a simple and easy-to-understand manner. Each volume is accompanied by supplementary materials. This series emphasizes practicality, starting with familiar objects from children's daily lives. It teaches the most frequently used vocabulary in daily life, enabling students to learn simple everyday expressions. The series demonstrates strong educational appeal by selecting topics that interest children and reflecting their own lives. The protagonists are both Chinese and foreign children, and the content reflects children's characteristics, such as games, role-playing activities like "playing house," rabbits, puppies, Sun Wukong, and even traveling to the moon in a dream. The entire series adopts a dialogue format, with appropriate interjections of riddles, nursery rhymes, games, and drawing activities. The lively and engaging presentation, vivid language, and rich illustrations make it an attractive learning tool. After completing these three volumes, students will grasp some basic linguistic materials, laying a foundation for systematic and formal Chinese language study in the future.