Chinese – Advanced E

Language, Culture, and Current Events – all in Mandarin

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Details

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.

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.

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.
 

Schedule

Course start date: Sun, 2012-03-04 01:00
Course end date: Fri, 2012-06-22 00:00

Syllabus

Coming soon.