One day, when I was playing with my daughters, I suddenly realised that our daughters have very little opportunity to learn Chinese. But I wanted to provide them with more opportunity to talk Chinese.
Hi, I'm Mitch Takahashi, the author of this book. Currently, I live in Japan with my family; my wife, two daughters, and two cats. I'm Japanese, but my wife is Chinese. Both my wife and I always wanted to bring up our children to be trilingual in English, Chinese, and Japanese. And we have tried to teach our children these languages with many different approaches. However, for some reason, it has always been a little challenge for us to home-teach Chinese to them; exposure to Chinese was very limited as we normally speak English at home. That's because my wife and I met each other when we lived abroad, and since then, English has been our common language.
Now the question is... how we can give our daughters more exposure to Chinese language. After thinking for a while, I though I could buy some Chinese-Japanese and/or -English bilingual or trilingual picture books and I could read them with my daughters together. So, I went off to look for such books in bookstores and in the Internet. However, to my surprise, I couldn’t find such books anywhere. Then, I told my wife about it, and we found the answer: “Let’s make such books by ourselves!” So we decided to make some.
Tah dah!!! This is our first hand-made Chinese-English bilingual picture book. This book was originally made for our own daughter's learning Chinese purpose, but then we thought it might be able to be of some help to other people who are learning Chinese or teaching Chinese to their own kids. So we decided to put it on Amazon's Kindle Store. (Don't forget to check out our Chinese-Japanese edition of this book!)
This book can be a very useful tool for you if you…
-are thinking about starting to learn Mandarin Chinese or have recently started to learn Mandarin Chinese.
-are thinking about teaching Mandarin Chinese to your children.
-want to read short, easy-to-understand, and enjoyable stories in Mandarin Chinese,.
and/or
-want to learn Mandarin Chinese by listening and looking at images.
At the end of each book, there are also one or two brief grammar explanations as well, so you don’t need to know much of Chinese grammar either. I will introduce the Chinese grammar little by little in later stories of this series. So you’ll learn Chinese grammar gradually.
My wife and I also recorded (or will record) each story and posted (or will post very soon) the audio files on my language school’s website. They are in MP3 format. You can visit my school’s website at...
Hi, I'm Mitch Takahashi, the author of this book. Currently, I live in Japan with my family; my wife, two daughters, and two cats. I'm Japanese, but my wife is Chinese. Both my wife and I always wanted to bring up our children to be trilingual in English, Chinese, and Japanese. And we have tried to teach our children these languages with many different approaches. However, for some reason, it has always been a little challenge for us to home-teach Chinese to them; exposure to Chinese was very limited as we normally speak English at home. That's because my wife and I met each other when we lived abroad, and since then, English has been our common language.
Now the question is... how we can give our daughters more exposure to Chinese language. After thinking for a while, I though I could buy some Chinese-Japanese and/or -English bilingual or trilingual picture books and I could read them with my daughters together. So, I went off to look for such books in bookstores and in the Internet. However, to my surprise, I couldn’t find such books anywhere. Then, I told my wife about it, and we found the answer: “Let’s make such books by ourselves!” So we decided to make some.
Tah dah!!! This is our first hand-made Chinese-English bilingual picture book. This book was originally made for our own daughter's learning Chinese purpose, but then we thought it might be able to be of some help to other people who are learning Chinese or teaching Chinese to their own kids. So we decided to put it on Amazon's Kindle Store. (Don't forget to check out our Chinese-Japanese edition of this book!)
This book can be a very useful tool for you if you…
-are thinking about starting to learn Mandarin Chinese or have recently started to learn Mandarin Chinese.
-are thinking about teaching Mandarin Chinese to your children.
-want to read short, easy-to-understand, and enjoyable stories in Mandarin Chinese,.
and/or
-want to learn Mandarin Chinese by listening and looking at images.
At the end of each book, there are also one or two brief grammar explanations as well, so you don’t need to know much of Chinese grammar either. I will introduce the Chinese grammar little by little in later stories of this series. So you’ll learn Chinese grammar gradually.
My wife and I also recorded (or will record) each story and posted (or will post very soon) the audio files on my language school’s website. They are in MP3 format. You can visit my school’s website at...
