Foreword
First, teach children, to speak. Learning Chinese will become easy.
Learn how to speak first
As people become more and more interested in the Chinese language, the number of Chinese learners is increasing feast. However, it is always difficult to make up one's mind to start learning Chinese, and even those who start often give up later. If asked the reason why, they usually say: "It is too difficult to pronounce."
Chinese is a "tonal" language, which means that a single syllable can be pronounced at different pitches, and syllables of different pitches have different meanings. For this reason mast people find the Chinese language difficult to learn. Therefore it is important to study pronunciation and tones first. If you learn accurate pronunciation and tones, you will have a basic command of Chinese.
Children who know nothing about grammar can learn a foreign language faster than adults. That's because they simply imitate what they hear, and remember "the language itself" rather than memorizing complicated rules of grammar. Therefore, beginning with correct pronunciation and tones is a shortcut for children to learn the rest of the language.
First of all, you must "open" a child's ears and mouth
People who have been studying a foreign language for a long time often do not speak well when meeting foreigners, simply because they focus too much on grammar and words.
This textbook is designed using dialogues applicable to children's everyday life. While studying this textbook, you can listen to the accompanying cassette tapes to hear dialogues between native speakers. Practicing and reciting these dialogues will lead a child's ears and mouth to "open" naturally.
Though listening and speaking, a child's ears and mouth will be opened in the following ways:
Learn words through pictures.
