Chinese - Beginners A

This course is for

Adult students (over the age of 17) whose native language is not Mandarin Chinese and who do not speak or read Mandarin Chinese.

Duration

Spoken Chinese 1: 15 weeks.
Spoken Chinese 2: 15 weeks.

Course structure and goals

The course focuses on speaking in Mandarin Chinese. Students learn basic sentence structures and grammatical rules, and acquire a vocabulary of 400 words used in basic conversation. Course texts are written in Pinyin, the widely-used transliteration system for Chinese characters. This allows students to focus on improving their communication skills, both speaking and comprehension. The class meets once a week and students are required to complete the homework assignments sent by the teacher after each lesson.

At the end of the course the student will

• Have acquired a vocabulary of 400 basic words that will enable them to conduct basic conversations on a variety of topics, including greetings, shopping, orientation, transportation and more.
• Know all Chinese tones, which are vital to pronunciation.
• Be able to construct simple sentences in Chinese using basic grammatical structures.
• Be familiar with the Pinyin transliteration system used to transliterate Chinese.

Choose Activity Session: 2010-102010-12

Course start date: Sun, Oct 17th, 2010
Course end date: Fri, Feb 4th, 2011

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