Chinese for Kids Set 1: First Readers Box Set – 10 Beginning Readers with Online Audio | Build Early Confidence for Ages 3-8 (Traditional Chinese - Pinyin Edition) Language Together Paperback – Box set, January 1, 2016

I was really excited to find such simple chinese books for my toddler! All the books that I saw were stories with really long sentences. I find them overwhelming my toddler with so many characters and not being able to focus on a set. I read one book multiple times to my toddler and he's already recognizing some of the characters!! He also finds the illustrations attractive to him. I'm really happy with this purchase!

Our daughter is learning to read Chinese characters, and we have been trying to find Mandarin books for her to read by herself. This set has great starting books for her, she is excited to be able to read without much help from us! We will be getting the second set for her.

Because I can't read many Chinese characters but can listen/speak at a conversational level, I appreciated that these books had the Chinese characters, PinYin and the audio for it. My toddler started with these books at 16 months and enjoyed me reading them to him and would also ask me to play the audio reading of them with my cell phone which was also a good way for him to hear a more authentic Chinese accent and for me to learn from it too. And to be honest, I also enjoyed being able to play the audio reading off my phone so I could have snippets of time to use my phone to check my email and news without my toddler asking me to see my phone as he was engaged in looking at the books. Probably after listening to the books 15+ times, my toddler has learned to turn the pages to the audio reading accordingly perhaps 50% of the times without any assistance. Also, my toddler loves to try to figure out how to re-insert all the books back into the box which he is getting better at which was an accidental toy for him.I'm still debating if I want to buy the 2nd box as I was thinking to get Sagebooks for him to really learn Chinese characters.

I’m trying to learn Chinese while teaching my 2 year old Chinese. These books have interesting (but simple) pictures, and the words are colored to match the picture. I also like the repetition with phrases (“Good morning rat! Good morning dog! Good morning cat!”) My daughter will bring me the books unprompted for me to read to her. I also appreciate the audio that you can download, since a beginner has a hard time with just pinyin. I’ve downloaded it onto my daughter’s Jooki so she can play it whenever she wants.

I am a native Mandarin speaker and am teaching my babies Chinese and found this set to be unsuitable for my teaching style where I am able to walk them through things. This set is probably good for older kids/people who can navigate lessons and the online portion and also *need* the online portion to hear the proper pronunciation.

They are the perfect beginner books! Especially for exposing young kids to the language early. I took a few years of Chinese in school but never became fluent. I’ve been trying to expose my nieces to the language but most of the kids books I’ve found have been too advanced, too easy, and generally not great at keeping the girls’ attention. These reminded me of the bob books from when I started learning to read (which I absolutely loved) and are perfect for reading to my nieces who are 2-4. I expect that even after I’ve progressed to reading them longer more difficult books that they will be useful when the girls start reading themselves.The vocab breakdown, translation, and inclusion of idioms is so organized and helpful.I hope they continue to make additional levels soon. I plan on purchasing purchasing additional levels when I can.

10 books written in traditional Chinese with pingyin along the bottom, covering basic topics like numbers, colors, shapes, clothing items, body parts, etc. English translations are provided on the book covers. It's written in simple sentences that are repetitive and conducive to language learning. The pictures that go along with each sentence are also clear. (each page would be drawn in gray scale except the keyword/object. Ex., For "square" - the word "square" and its picture would be in color) I think audio is provided on a website as well. They give a QR scan for it. I haven't used that feature yet so I can't comment on the quality of that. I'm using this product to teach and motivate my kids to learn to read some Chinese and it seems to be working.

I really like this set of books. They have short and fun stories. I ordered the traditional set and my kids read it with their Chinese tutor, but at home we listen to the audio on the website. These 10 books are part of our “10 week Chinese summer camp” once a week ^_^ it comes in Chinese characters, pinyin, English, colored and black&white pictures.