When you start reading a book for the first time, you have the option of “Read to me”, or “Read independently”.
In our Mandarin Homeschool, I like to read to my children. However, there are times when my half-bucket Chinese 半桶水 fails 😅 (Oops!) and that’s when Mummy can click on the magical “Read to me” button for help.
The “read to me” function is great, but I just find it too passive as my children will just sit and look at the book. Not much difference from watching a YouTube storybook. And I am not sure how much of the story my children will pick up from it.
The voices for the stories are very pleasing and harmonic, which makes listening to it a breeze.
Kada 故事 app is by far the only Chinese reading app we have tried out that has a darkened reading light mode (护眼模式). I personally don’t like using this mode, as these are picture books, not chapter books. The darkened light mode just made the picture books tinted in green…So nah… I will pass on that.
Below is a video insight into a few of the Chinese books you can find on the Kada 故事 app. I have selected 4 different types of books to give you a good idea of the content and narration.
1. 灰姑娘 Disney’s Cinderella
2. 老虎 Tigers (Bilingual – Chinese/English)
3. 小房子The Little House
4. 狐假虎威 成语故事