Learning spoken Chinese by rhythmic chants, the backbone of Easy Chinese Textbook Series, is intended for overseas youngsters to learn Chinese as a foreign language. There are altogether 8 volumes of textbooks. Each volume contains 6 units with several lessons in each. The most distinctive feature of this series is the rhyming texts, which allow students to read the texts aloud and memorize them easily. It was found that the method of “chanting/reading aloud” largely increases the fun of learning as well as students’ enthusiasm for learning.

Book 4, with an MP3 CD included, encompasses close-to-life topics, such as climate, traffic, travel, surfing the Internet, seeing a doctor, and housing. On the basis of Books 1-3, this book increases the vocabulary and broadens the content of dialogues. By learning the rhymes and conversations, students will quickly acquire the language skills necessary for them to cope with various daily life situations and to improve the quality of their lives in the Chinese environment.

About the Author

Da Shiping and Wendy Da are both Chinese teachers of several international schools. Their publications include textbooks such as Building Blocks for Learning Chinese Characters, Radicals for Learning Chinese Characters, Learning Spoken Chinese by Rhythmic Chants, My Mini Radical Dictionary, My Mini Chinese Dictionary, Playing Cards for Learning Chinese, Wall Charts Of Chinese Character Building Blocks, Study China through Numbers—Wall Charts on Chinese Geography and History and Reading Journal for “Traveling around China—Chinese Reading Marathon” and the multimedia product Magical Chinese Characters.