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My First Book of Chinese Words: An ABC Rhyming Book of Chinese Language and Culture
My First Book of Chinese Words introduces young children to basic words and concepts in the Chinese language through colorful rhymes and beautiful imagery.
It is a book that parents and young children will enjoy reading together. The Chinese words in the book are all common, everyday items, and the rhymes are informative and fun for children.
The goal of My First Book of Chinese Words is to familiarize children with the basic sounds and written characters of Chinese, to introduce core concepts of Chinese culture and to illustrate the ways in which Chinese sounds differ from English ones. Teachers and parents will welcome the cultural notes at the back of the book and appreciate how the book is organized using a familiar ABC structure. Each word is presented in Chinese characters (both Simplified and Traditional) as well as Romanized Pinyin for easy pronunciation.
With the help of this book, we hope more children (and adults) will soon join the more than one billion people worldwide who speak Chinese!
It is a book that parents and young children will enjoy reading together. The Chinese words in the book are all common, everyday items, and the rhymes are informative and fun for children.
The goal of My First Book of Chinese Words is to familiarize children with the basic sounds and written characters of Chinese, to introduce core concepts of Chinese culture and to illustrate the ways in which Chinese sounds differ from English ones. Teachers and parents will welcome the cultural notes at the back of the book and appreciate how the book is organized using a familiar ABC structure. Each word is presented in Chinese characters (both Simplified and Traditional) as well as Romanized Pinyin for easy pronunciation.
With the help of this book, we hope more children (and adults) will soon join the more than one billion people worldwide who speak Chinese!
32 pages, Hardcover
Published August 29, 2017
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February 10, 2021
This is such a sweet, beautiful book! Our daughter has enjoyed it since she was a tiny baby. The rhythm and images are so nice for a baby a few weeks old to much older. This book is also very nice for parents where not both of us are Chinese. It gives me something I can share with her.
September 6, 2018
It’s a good attempt
I wanted to love it more
Doesn’t help me pronounce
I had to google
It would be great to have a bar code the reader could scan and have the author say the word
That would be awesome
Illustrations were not well detailed
Should have been better
I wanted to love it more
Doesn’t help me pronounce
I had to google
It would be great to have a bar code the reader could scan and have the author say the word
That would be awesome
Illustrations were not well detailed
Should have been better
January 24, 2021
Bought this book for my future children. It's a very nice book for children, but probably would be better suited for children whose parents (both or one) speak the language for correct pronunciations.
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