Rhythms and Tones- This is a wonderful book to expose kids who are learning Chinese as a second language. It includes a CD with 24 songs that reinforce learning things such as:
- How to say hello/goodbye,
- Using tones,
- Asking basic questions,
- Titles of family members,
- Actions,
- Body parts,
- Numbers and measure words,
- Animals,
- Common phrases,
- Food,
- Radicals and how they look in characters,
- Weather,
- Asking for and saying the time,
- Days of the week,
- Seasons,
- Colors, and
- Chinese holidays.
At the back of the book, the piano music for each song is provided as well as a dictionary of the characters covered in the book. This book uses mainland pinyin and simplified Chinese characters. I should also point out that is available at the Iowa City Public Library; The title is Rhythms and Tones and the call number is j495.1834.
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