By Rachel Walton
Teacher in Ballard School New Milton and New Forest Chinese Academy

We've been using My 1st Chinese book series for more than three years. Most of our learners have gained excellent progress from the books, and been able to recognise and write characters in a short period of time.  Some of my learners have commented that they are surprised how quickly they are learning.

by Penny Lynch,
Teacher in South Wirral High School, Upton-by-Chester High School, St Brigid’s School Denbigh and Argoed High School in Flintshire.

I purchased the Chinese Treasure Chest published by Cengage Learning which was mentioned on the forum in the summer. I paid about £70 for 2 books of reproducible resources and I have to say, it's been worth every penny. There are songs, games, things to make and cultural activities - it's brilliant and has saved me hours and hours of preparation time. The activities are of varied levels, from Y1 - Y8. I have been using the older activities for Y7 & 8 but there are plenty of things for much younger pupils which I have not used yet.

By Janet Williams
Associate Lecturer for the Open University

《守株待兔》的故事，一共有150多个字，他录了几遍，刚开始读得没头没脑的，还忘了怎么呼吸，后来读得通顺了，这一篇念得还可以，舌头刚开始有一点打结，不过大概可以得85分，值得鼓励。

《成语故事》动物篇和本领篇，这两本书，是我上星期在伦敦买的。这套书是Better Chinese的最新出版品，今年刚出版。

Better Chinese 有一套不错的中文教材，这套《成语故事》是辅助教材，中文（附拼音）写得简洁流畅，字句也是小孩可以掌握的。优点是，孩子学过一点中文后，可以自己朗读课文。每篇课文超过100个字，有点挑战，对初学者来说，长度适中。故事还附有英文翻译。

By Rose Gao
Teacher of Harlow Chinese School

I teach Year 1 class in the Harlow Chinese School. My pupils and I all very enjoy in using "My First Chinese Words" series in the class. The Attention-grabbing pictures, the exciting content appeal to children’s curiosity. The CD ROM and the exercise books are an excellent range of teaching resources. They are an idea series for the young children to learn Chinese as a secondary language.

By Hsiu Nian Wei
Chinese teacher of Various London Schools 

"My first chinese words is an exellent teaching material, it is very popular for children. They like the picture and the card games. The book is easy for both children and parents to read together. For teacher, the book plus other supplying sets, like Songs,Games, CD-Rom, makes the preparation much easier and it is a great pleasure to see students enjoying it as well as learning well. "

By MaiSim Merry
Headteacher of Buckinghamshire Chinese School

I have been using the BetterChinese – My First Chinese Words series as our nursery class course curriculum for children ages between 5-7 years old since September 2007.

This series is designed for children who are learning Mandarin as a second language.  It is, therefore designed in both English and Mandarin with Hanyu pinyin(Chinese phonic system) . The pressure of written work is taken off as the emphasis of this series focuses on the children to learn to read first and at the end of the series, they should be able to read 250 characters and be able to hold some basic conversation.