I am learning Mandarin Chinese and my husband (who is Taiwanese) has been using these with me to leave messages on the fridge for me to translate and reply to. These are a great learning tool - not just for kids! Unfortunately, being a "kids" set, they won't have any special hubby-wife phrases available like "Kiss me you fool" or anything like that. The quality is very good and the pieces are big enough that if they fell on the floor, my kid wouldn't try to swallow them (she doesn't eat anything off the ground bigger than a june-bug). I am very pleased with this set.