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Rhymes, pictures and storytelling help kids learn Chinese easily  Kids will sing, laugh and applaud to the fun rhymes,
pictures and stories. Surefire way to learn and remember Chinese words
and sentences.Four levels available. Includes CD and Textbook
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"...My husband and I are Chinese-speakers and I teach Chinese at college level... We soon realized that there are not that many good textbooks to teach Chinese to children. With Chinese Made Easy for Kids we finally found an easy and entertaining book to teach written Chinese to our four year old... The textbook has fun, colorful illustrations, and the workbook is full of entertaining and creative activities. This book is a great way to introduce your child to Chinese. It comes with a CD so, if you do not speak Chinese at home, your child (and you) can still mimic the sounds and learn how to speak the language. I would rate this book with 5 stars."
- Patricia from TX
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Chinese Made Easy for Kids, Simplified Characters Level 1 Textbook with CD
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Chinese Made Easy for Kids, Simplified Characters Level 1 Workbook,
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CMEK Flash Cards - Chinese Made Easy For Kids Level 1, Simplified
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Chinese Made Easy for Kids, Simplified Characters Level 2 Textbook with CD
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Chinese Made Easy for Kids, Simplified Characters Level 2 Workbook
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CMEK Flash Cards - Chinese Made Easy For Kids Level 2, Simplified
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Chinese Made Easy for Kids, Simplified Characters Level 3 Textbook with CD
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Chinese Made Easy for Kids, Simplified Characters Level 3 Workbook
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Chinese Made Easy for Kids, Simplified Characters Level 4 Textbook with CD
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Chinese Made Easy for Kids, Simplified Characters Level 4 Workbook
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Chinese Made Easy for Kids (Traditional Chinese) Buying Guide
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Chinese Made Easy for Kids, Traditional Characters Level 1, Textbook with CD
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Chinese Made Easy for Kids Workbook, Traditional Characters Level 1
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Chinese Made Easy for Kids, Traditional Characters Level 2, Textbook
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Chinese Made Easy for Kids Workbook, Traditional Characters Level 2
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Chinese Made Easy for Kids, Traditional Characters Level 3, Textbook with CD
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Chinese Made Easy for Kids Workbook, Traditional Characters Level 3
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Chinese Made Easy for Kids, Traditional Characters Level 4
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Chinese Made Easy for Kids Workbook, Traditional Characters Level 4
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Course Design - More info about Chinese Made Easy For Kids
The main objective of this series is to help primary-school age students develop their Chinese communication skills, particularly in listening and speaking. It is hoped that after going the lessons, students will have a solid foundation in Chinese as a secondary language. After using this series, students may then proceed to use the next series "Chinese Made Easy". Click here to view Chinese Made Easy products.
What you Can Expect to Learn from Chinese Made Easy for Kids
Phonetic Symbols and Tones. The children will be immediately immersed in phonetic symbols and tones. The author believes children will overcome the confusion quickly. With more exposure, the children will eventually pick up good Mandarin pronunciation and intonation. Pinyin will be reinforced continuously, but printed in light gray so that the kids will be drawn to the Chinese characters instead.
Chinese Characters. Chinese characters will be taught according to the character formation system. Once the children have a good grasp of radicals and simple characters, they will be able to analyze most of the compound characters they see. They will also get to understand and memorize new characters in a logical way.
Vocabulary and Sentence Structure. Kids pick up words easily if they recognize it around them. Chinese Made Easy for Kids teach new words and how to form sentences correctly by using example sentences in the family, school, play areas and other interesting matters for kids.
Textbook with CD targets fun listening and speaking skills. Listening and speaking skills are main priorities in the textbook. Kids will develop oral communication skills through audio exercises in the included CD, dialogues, Q&A and speaking practice. To reinforce learning, games and rhymes are included in the lessons to make learning fun.
WorkBook. Many activities are designed to match the kids' learning ability. Children will trace and copy characters fpr writing. For more reading they will read phrases, sentences and short paragraphs. Difficulty of exercises gradually increase as the kids go along and become more confident to use Chinese.
Continuous, level by level lessons :
Chinese Made Easy For Kids has 4 levels. With daily lessons and proper motivating instruction, one book level can be completed in an academic school year. Each level has a textbook with CD, work book and flashcards. You may also use "Chinese Made Easy" textbooks series after you finish all 4 levels.
Chinese languages available : Chinese Made Easy for Kids is available in Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
Topics Covered in all Levels:
Note: Each Level in the Chinese Made Easy for Kids series has the same themes, but with more expanded words and sentences per book level.
Children will learn about Chinese Greetings, Classroom Language, Personal Introduction, Numbers & Dates, Countries & Languages, Occupations, Transport, Colours & Clothing, Daily Routines, School subjects & facilities, Parts of the body & illness, Everyday articles, Stationery, Articles in the house, Animals, House & Rooms.
How to Use Chinese Made Easy for Kids
A Few Suggestions from the Author:
The teacher should:
- provide every opportunity for kids to use their listening and speaking skills. The exercises in the books can be modified to match the children's ability.
- go over the phonetic exercises in the textbook with the students. Later, children should be encouraged to pronounce Pinyin on their own.
- emphasize the importance of learning the basic strokes and stroke order of the characters. Teacher should demonstrate the stroke order of each character to total beginners.With regular practice of counting strokes, kids will find it easy to recognize characters and learn new ones.
- guide children to analyze new characters and encourage them to use their imagination to aid memorization.
- modify the games in the textbook to match the children's abilities
- skip, modify or extend some exercises according to children's levels. Use and/ or modify activities for class or homework.
- encourage kids to recite the times table at the end of Book 3 and 4. Not only will they easily memorize numbers, tey can also learn multiplication.
After the lessons, children are expected to:
- trace new characters in each lesson
- memorize radicals and simple characters
- recite the rhymes in each lesson
- listen to the recording of the text a few times in Book 3 and 4, and tell the story if they can. Stories are in picture book form so kids should find them appealing.
Note: The text for each lesson, audio exercises, phonetic symbols and rhymes are on the CD attached to the textbook. The symbol indicates the track number. For example, CD-T1 is Track one.
About the Author
Ms. Yamin Ma has an M.Ed. in Curriculum Design and Development from Queen's University, Canada. Her research interest is in educational psychology, ESL, Chinese language teaching and learning. She has taught English and Chinese in china and Canada, and is currently teaching Chinese in an international school in Hong Kong. She regularly attends international conferences and publishes articles.
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