Chinese – Advanced 5

Language, Culture, and Current Events – all in Mandarin

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Details

Course structure and goals

During the course, students are presented with newspaper and TV clippings and articles from the Chinese media. The selected pieces are designed to help students explore some of the major social issues facing Chinese society. Each topic is followed by a live discussion in Chinese. Students continue to practice the use of new vocabulary and sentence structure.
Homework assignments are given every week, as well as a list of new words learnt in class. The class meets once a week and students are required to complete homework assignments sent by the teacher after each lesson.

This course is for

Adults students (over the age of 17) who have completed Levels A, B, C and D (or have the equivalent knowledge of Chinese) and can conduct a basic conversation in common Chinese.

Duration

Spoken Chinese 9: 15 weeks.
Spoken Chinese 10: 15 weeks.

At the end of the course the student will

Be able to communicate in Chinese in a more confident and fluent way, on a larger variety of topics.
Be able to use the Chinese language in an appropriate way in various unique Chinese cultural situations.
Have acquired a solid foundation for the Business Chinese stream of eTeacherChinese.com.
 

Study kit for this course

Coming soon.


Schedule

Course Schedule

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June 2013

Sun, June 02, 2013 Sat, September 21, 2013
 

July 2013

Sun, July 28, 2013 Sat, November 16, 2013
 

September 2013

Sun, September 08, 2013 Sat, December 21, 2013
 

November 2013

Sun, November 10, 2013 Sat, March 01, 2014
 

January 2014

Sun, January 05, 2014 Sat, April 19, 2014
 

Syllabus

Coming soon.