ACEWORK SOFTWARE COMPANY

We are a husband-wife team and founded Acework in 1993 following the success of our first software product "Toy Chest". At that time, our boys were 3 and 5, and there wasn't any quality product on the market for this age group. My husband has a successful career in a software company, and I worked as a freelance graphic designer. However, we continued developing games and curriculum on our spare time. Over the years, our skills and product ideas matured as our boys grew up... How is this possible? First of all, unlike most Chinese textbooks that start with a dialogue surrounding a scenario, lessons in Chinese In a week follow basic grammatical concepts familiar to an English speaker, such as parts of speech, statements, questions, modifiers and tenses. The emphasis is not on the memorization of words and sentences used in a given situation, but the fundamental structures of how Chinese sentences are put together. To minimize memorization, a list of only ? carefully selected words are..