Authentic Chinese (Volume I) is innovative, forward-thinking, and groundbreaking. It has long been awaited by Chinese language teachers and students in the United States. The whole set of materials includes four books: 1) Textbook, 2) Workbook, 3) Task Workbook, and 4) Character Workbook. Six types of free resources are made available for teachers to save tremendous preparation time, including an interactive E-book, an interactive platform with instant scoring and feedback, teaching PPT slides, test items for assessment, Quizlet (vocabulary and sentences), and authentic materials. Offering everything that teachers and students need for a successful class, it makes learning engaging, communicative, and most essentially, authentic. With the materials at hand, teachers can prepare for each lesson at ease, walk into the classroom with full confidence, and achieve teaching objectives and goals with easy-to-use and ready-to-use materials.

Authentic Chinese stands out to be an ideal set of materials with the following eight winning features.

1. Connect with learners’ daily life experience through a story line.
2. Identify AP Chinese themes that embrace topics in lessons.
3. Use exit tickets to assess learning objectives.
4. Visualize a real China through a wide array of authentic materials.
5. Strengthen reading through Reading Ladders.
6. Consolidate character learning through Character Morsels and Challenge.
7. Deepen understanding of China in Culture Corner.
8. Complete student-centered tasks at ease.

Stay tuned for more volumes to be released soon. Please view the recorded video to learn the online presentation entitled Authentic Chinese: Teach Chinese at ease and with full confidence, given on June 8, 2023.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O4Ez7l1MgqQmDpSKI-GnXCKNidFfdJFr/view?usp=drive_link