Kids' Chinese-Magnetic Poetry Kids

My son learned his letter sounds with letters on the refrigerator. My son learned to put together letters to make words with the letters on the refrigerator. And now, for the past 15 months, my son has been in Chinese Immersion school...it only makes since that has another reinforcement activity on the refrigerator!I don't know a thing about Chinese, but I do know that my son is doing an awesome job reviewing the Chinese characters on the refrigerator like he did when he was a toddler. He also loves to leave messages for me and tries to get me to learn to read it as well.Perhaps it was just good timing, but I am thrilled to have the pinyin on the same side as the character. The past 14 months of his instruction focused on the character. His class just began working on pinyin this month! I am very happy that he is able to put the character together with the pinyin!I am also thrilled with the price! Most Chinese reinforcement content that I have come across is pretty spendy....but these are comparable to the amount that I was spending on the English letters/words gadgets that also went on the refrigerator!

Product arrived as advertised and in great condition.

I bought it to reinforce teaching my 3 year old son Chinese.I agree to some of the reviews that it is for older kids, even in a Chinese speaking family.I did not place all the word tiles on my frig at once, only few of them, enough to make 2 sentences and some random pieces. You can form some really silly sentences with the tiles that I placed.It can be overwhelming for people who just started learning Chinese, but it is a good tool for people who already know a bundle of Chinese words and phrases to expand their vocabularies and practice making sentences.A fun way to learn Chinese. I agree with some other review that this is not a toy. It can be categorized as a work game but need to accompany with additional tools and suggestions for a game use.Recommend for group of Chinese learners to play this set together. It is not so much fun for one person to play.

The kids are having fun with these magnets! They started learning immediately and I think it's because they are fun and made for kids. No one in our family knows or understands the Chinese language and the Adults are having fun too.

Too small. Not able to use for my Chinese Class. Returned it...

I had initially gone looking for this for myself, but ended up buying it for my nieces first. They love it. They watch enough Ni Hao Kai-Lan to appreciate Chinese, plus they know my interest. They are barely school-age, but these magnets are great because they're relatively simple in vocabulary, yet enough to stoke their curiosity.I purchased my own set, as well. I wasn't thrilled about having the Pinyin (pronunciation guide) printed above the characters, but the magnets are soft enough that you can cut them off with scissors fairly easily. (Though I know Chinese well, I find that I stop reading the character and start reading the Pinyin words).My only regret is that they don't have expansion sets. Overall, this is a great product.

I am learning Mandarin Chinese and my husband (who is Taiwanese) has been using these with me to leave messages on the fridge for me to translate and reply to. These are a great learning tool - not just for kids! Unfortunately, being a "kids" set, they won't have any special hubby-wife phrases available like "Kiss me you fool" or anything like that. The quality is very good and the pieces are big enough that if they fell on the floor, my kid wouldn't try to swallow them (she doesn't eat anything off the ground bigger than a june-bug). I am very pleased with this set.

Though this kit is classified as a toy, it may not work for very young (under 10 or 12) children because the magnetic squares are small. I use mine on the refrigerator door, but you can also use them on the metal box lid or any other magnetic surface. For kids, a metal easel would be a really good accessory. The tiles are the same material as magnetic business cards -- maybe not quite as sturdy because of their smaller size. They are black on white and large enough to read easily (though not from a distance), but they only have the Pinyin word and the character on the side that faces out. The corresponding English word is in white on dark grey on the side that one sticks to the metal surface. There are duplicate tiles for frequently used words. They are definitely meant for active learning, not just as visual reminders of past learning. For a children's toy, I wish they were a little larger and more colorful, perhaps a different color for each part of speech. The kit is best suited to older children and adults who are actively engaged in fairly formal study of the Chinese language or who already speak it. Then they could be used for word scrabble games to make sentences with the available tiles.

l'idea è buona ma purtroppo sono troppo poche parole

Pretty good. Clear characters with pinyin but could do with less pronouns and more food, everyday object or activities. An 'expansion pack' would be good.

Good kit to encourage my daughter learn chinese and learn for a short time while I cook dinner every day. Could do with more variety of characters. It will have five stars if the box is better designed so I can easily store the magnets back in the box.