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Compiled by experienced teachers for English-speaking children, this set of three textbooks contains Conversations, Phonetics and Verses. Chinese for Children-Conversations is a textbook for children who wish to learn basic Chinese conversation centered around everyday situations concerning life and study. After finishing the book, they will have mastered simple dialogues and will be able to communicate with parents, friends, teachers and others in Chinese. The texts are compiled on a step-by-step basis so that the children will master basic vocabulary and sentence patterns through situation dialogues. For anyone learning Chinese, pinyin or phonetic, this is the best way to learn both pronunciation and new characters. Chinese for Children- Phonetics is compiled especially for overseas children and the editors combine the strengths of different teaching methods to introduce the consonants and vowels through interesting sentences and nursery rhymes, which makes the learning experience more interesting for children. In ancient China, most children started learning Chinese from such rhymed verses as Three Character Classic and 100 Chinese Family Names. In modern China, most parents teach their children Chinese through classical poems and nursery rhymes, for these are fun to read and easy to memorize. Chinese for Children-Verses is compiled so as to help overseas children to foster the same interest in learning Chinese. The texts include the most popular traditional poems, nursery rhymes, tongue twisters, riddles, and numerical rhymes, providing pinyin and simple English annotations for the convenience of self-learners. Please review the table of content.

《快乐时光幼儿汉语—会话篇》是面向海外少年儿童编写的一本基础汉语会话教材。本书的对话都是围绕儿童的生活、学习需求编写而成的。通过学习，孩子们能掌握一些简单的生活用语，用汉语跟父母、朋友、老师及其他长辈进行简单的交际。在编排上，本书依据循序渐进的原则，使孩子们在模仿交际的同时，能逐步学会汉语中的一些基本词汇和句型。对于初学汉语的人来说，汉语拼音是基础，它可以帮助记音认字。《快乐时光幼儿汉语—拼音篇》是针对海外儿童编写的拼音教材。它吸收了多种拼音教学方法的优点，并在此基础上编创了将声韵母、词语、句子和儿歌有机地结合起来的方法，从而使学习拼音的过程更加富有意义和趣味。全书循序渐进，使孩子在轻松的氛围中就能愉快地掌握拼音。古人学习汉语，大都是从《三字经》、《百家姓》等韵文类的读物开始。现在，很多父母在孩子很小的时候，喜欢教孩子学一些唐诗、儿歌等等。因为韵文类的读物读起来琅琅上口，容易记忆。基于这种原因，我们选编了这本《快乐时光幼儿汉语—韵文篇》，目的是让海外初学汉语的孩子们学习起来感到轻松而又有趣，达到寓教于乐的目的。本书选编了在民间广为流传的、脍炙人口的唐诗、儿歌、绕口令、谜语歌和数字歌等多种形式的韵文体读物，加上拼音与简单的英文注释，便于国外的孩子们自学。