Hello, has anyone used books with an audio pen, in Chinese/English, that work like the Leapfrog books and pens? (At least I think this is how they work, never having used the Leapfrog ones). I want to read my son simple books in Chinese, but do so haltingly, and he gets fed up and asks me to read English books instead. I was thinking that books with audio pens that read out loud with a proper chinese voice would be great for both him and me. I could practice reading without the pen, then have the pen say it and check/better my fluency. And he could use the simpler books with single characters or words of two or three characters, and go at his own pace with the pen that reads the character out loud in Chinese.
I have found at least one on the market in the US and Canada: eReadbooks Touch Reading Pen. It is available at Amazon.com in outside vendors, and in Canada at bigreach.ca I haven't bought it yet and want to know if anyone has tried it, or a similar audio reading pen in Chinese.
If you wish to see the pen and books in question, I blogged about finding them at
http://wenjonggal.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/ereadbook-touch-reading-pen/Thanks for any insight anyone can give me before I take the plunge!
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