Chinese for Children. Chinese Characters in Pictures 1

Text is in both Chinese and English. "Chinese for Children" is written and edited by the Shanghai Hongqiao Language and Culture School which offers many different Chinese language and culture courses to children from over twenty countries. It follows a balanced approach in developing learners' listening, speaking, reading and writing abilities. Emphasis is placed on teaching sentence patterns, with new vocabulary introduced to allow learners to build a solid foundation in the language, rather than on the memorization of grammatical rules.