In school, his daily language is English, but in Mr. Bitao's class, he is immersed in the Chinese atmosphere. This transformation gives children a sense of belonging, and they slowly fall in love with Chinese learning. 

她不是教育科班出身，也不是职业老师，只是一个希望孩子学好中文的妈妈。

In recent years, overseas Chinese schools and learning resources have mushroomed, making it truly overwhelming for parents and students. As a teacher of Chinese as a foreign language with many years of experience (having taught multiple sets of textbooks), I know well that interest is crucial for children learning a language, and choosing the right textbook is the key to unlocking that interest.

Are you facing this dilemma when looking for Chinese classes for your child overseas: They resist boring flashcards, struggle with complicated stroke writing, and lose all interest after endless dictation tests? We understand—this is not the child’s fault, nor the language’s fault, but rather a mismatch between traditional teaching methods and the natural path of second-language acquisition overseas.

Every time new parents bring their children to try out a class, they almost always leave with “two surprises and one worry.”  The first surprise: “Tong Le teaches so many phrases and classic quotes in the lower grades—my child only knows a few characters, how can they possibly learn?”  The second surprise: “Tong Le’s textbooks for younger students are mostly pictures. Why are they so different from the Chinese textbooks we used when we were kids?”  And the worry: “The lessons are so rich—will the homework be heavy? How much time will we parents have to spend tutoring?”  Today, let’s reveal the answers. Tong Le Chinese is effective, natural, and easy to learn precisely because we have completely overturned traditional ideas and methods of Chinese teaching. 

Reshaping the Chinese Classroom, Returning to the Natural Laws of Language Learning  Anyone who has seen Tong Le Chinese courses quickly notices that our textbooks look very different from the traditional Yuwen readers. Tong Le classrooms are always full of stories and pictures. But isn’t a Chinese class supposed to focus on teaching characters, vocabulary, sentence patterns, and reading passages?