Susan you Mafan! by Terry T Waltz

Susan you Mafan! by Terry T Waltz

Susan is tired of the boring life in her small community in the US...until one day a chance encounter brings her face-to-face with fame, fortune, and...dogsleds?

A chapter book all in Chinese for beginning students, with a quirky and engaging story told using only 212 headwords and 207 unique Chinese characters. Chapter 1 has only 23 headwords and could easily be read by students in their first month of Chinese study. Accessible Pinyin is conveniently located on the back side of each printed page of characters, to give support that is always available but out of sight. Full glossary of meanings as the words and phrases are used in the context of the story.

Terry Waltz has a Ph.D. in Foreign Language Teaching (Mandarin Chinese) and is a NYS-certified Mandarin Chinese teacher as well as an internationally recognized presenter on the TPRS and Comprehensible Input methodology for teaching Chinese. Anna mei Banfa! is her first novel. The cold character reading method of teaching Chinese literacy, the TOP (Tonally Orthographic Pinyin) system of tonal spelling, and directional gestures for teaching Chinese tones are among her original contributions to Mandarin pedagogy. Dr. Waltz, a certified conference interpreter, spent a decade in Taiwan, where she obtained a second MA in Conference Interpreting from Fujen University and taught languages and interpreting to schools and government organizations around the island. She now resides in upstate New York, where she divides her time between developing Chinese resources for learners and instructors, designing educational games for Squid For Brains, and continuing her long-standing Mandarin and Spanish interpreting and translation practice.