E-Teacher Talking Chinese Audiobook: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

This E-Teacher Talking Chinese audiobook is specially made to be compatible with E-Teacher Talking Pen, a pen-shaped book reader onto which audio from specific books can be downloaded.

When E-Teacher Talking Pen scans across book pages, either images or texts, the corresponding Chinese words, phrases, paragraphs, or dialogues are read out loudly in clear Mandarin, a new technique of Point and Read. Please see E-reading pen: an interactive tool to learn Chinese for more details.

Ali Baba is a fictional character from medieval Arabic literature. He is described in the adventure tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

The story takes place in Baghdad during the Abbasid era. Ali Baba and his elder brother Cassim are the sons of a merchant. After the death of their father, the greedy Cassim marries a wealthy woman and becomes well-to-do, building on their father's business - but Ali Baba marries a poor woman and settles into the trade of a woodcutter.

One day Ali Baba is at work collecting and cutting firewood in the forest, and he happens to overhear a group of forty thieves visiting their treasure store. The treasure is in a cave, the mouth of which is sealed by magic. It opens on the words "Open, Simsim" (commonly written as "Open Sesame" in English), and seals itself on the words "Close, Simsim" ("Close Sesame"). When the thieves are gone, Ali Baba enters the cave himself, and takes some of the treasure home. Since then, his adventure begins.

Now your child can enjoy this timeless classic tale in Chinese. Each page contains charming, colorful cartoon illustrations, the Chinese characters and the Pinyin (phonetic transcriptions). You can upload the audio file of this book into your E-Teacher Talking Pen. You can download it from here.