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Another series of fantastic Chinese board books for babies and toddlers! "Counting in Chinese", "Starting in Chinese Part 1" and "Starting in Chinese Part 2"

I met the author when I was visiting a Chinese school in London 3 years ago, she was one of the parent at the school and very enthusiastic about children learning Chinese. I remembered we discussed about the shortage of good quality Chinese books for young children learning Mandarin in this country.

I have been searching Chinese idioms story books which suitable for my 7 years old. Many are too difficult for her to understand, I tried to read a few idioms books to her, but she couldn't understand most of the Chinese characters from the books and just couldn't bring up her interest. Two months ago, I received a set of Chinese Idioms books by Better Chinese, the books are for beginners to intermediate level. The sentences used in the books are very simple and easy to understand. There is also a summary of the story in English, vocabulary table and some questions and answers in the book.

There are more parents sending their young children to learn Chinese. How to keep the children as young as 18 months interested in this new language is really a challenging job. Teachers play a big part, in my opinion, a happy and friendly teacher will make the job easier. At home, parents who are a non native speaker are encouraged to play some Chinese children songs or DVD to stimulate their brain. Let the toddlers familiar with the tone or perhaps some Chinese characters posters/flash cards with eye catching pictures on it. I found my 19 months baby tries to recite小白兔 (Little Rabbit poem) after a few months of "Little Rabbit" stimulation by me. It really works!

Finally uploaded the teacher reward stickers to our website. We designed some bilingual encouraging words that can put down the teacher's name on the bottom as well, make to order.

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Let's Sing Mandarin 1, 2 & 3

Let's Sing Mandarin series promotes the learning of Chinese as a second or foreign language through songs.