Description

The series products of EasyChinese areachievements of the science research project of Beijing NormalUniversity, “Development and Pilot Deployment of E-Textbook”. As wekeep improving products based on teaching and learning practice,and now, the series products of EasyChinese have already empowerediPad as a wonderful tool for kids to learn Chinese characters.

The series of products are tailed for 3+ years old kids to learnChinese characters without aiding pictures. The products withaiding pictures are suitable for kids below 3 years old which onlymake for kid’s vocal words and do little to teaching and learningof characters.

The main functions of the series products are,
1. Learning by teaching, Kids can play a role of teacher to teach acartoon fairy, who can follow users pronunciation. This is V7.0’snewly added function.
2. Focus on "learning" and "enquiring learning outcome", not justrun on "teaching" and "telling something". Based on characters poolin each volume of primary school Chinese textbook, users are forcedto take evaluation unit by unit.
3. Facilitate learner’s learning by demonstrating the standardpronunciation, strokes, wording, meaning and writing of eachChinese character.
4. Evoke learner's learning interests through incentive programssuch as: (A) let kids teach a cartoon fairy, (B) show the unitlearning progress on trophy on home page, (C) tailor-made feedbackto the kids' quiz. etc.

EasyChinese HD Free includes 24 most frequent characters intotal. The characters are presented in 3 units, each unit of 8characters.
The selection of characters makes reference to the lists of newwords in the PEP's Chinese handbook of 1st semester Grade 1.

It is specially designed for children who are: 

1. Overseas Chinese children over 3 years old who live innon-Chinese speaking environment and have the needs to learnChinese; 

2. Preschooler of 3-6 years old in Chinese speaking environment,and various grades of students in primary school; 

3. The product can also be used as an effective supplementarylearning tool to systematic and formal Chinese language teaching;

4. It helps to strengthen the acquisition, understanding andmemorizing of the Chinese characters.



The software are not recommend for following users: 

1. Babies under 3 years old. 

2. Learners who want to use it as the sole Chinese learningmaterials and tools. 

3. Learners who solely wish to find a shortcut to learn Chinesecharacters. 



Friendly prompts from education experts (for average kids):

1. It is not advised for children under 3 years old to start theformal learning of Chinese characters. But parents may try to helpthe children learn to read with the aid of pictures, which maycultivate the children's interest in the characters. 

2. Do not let the children over 5 years old learn to read with theaid of pictures, because pictures will distract the children'sattention, which is not inductive for children to learn realChinese characters. 

3. Children's abstract thinking can be developed with the processof word learning, especially the acquisition of Chinese characters.

4. Children over 5 years old can maximize their capability to learncharacters, and try to develop their competence of reading variousliteratures as early as possible. 

5. Don't worry about the negative influence if characters thechildren apprehend are beyond those learnt through formal classroomteaching, because children's focus in classroom is irrelevant totheir familiarity with the teaching content.