Courses

This course provides language training of Mandarin Chinese to second/foreign language learners. The course aims to give comprehensive trainings of Mandarin Chinese with emphasis on oral and listening skills. The course content consists of a variety of patterns of daily expressions, especially on how to express frequency, emphasis, continuation and past experience. Comparative structures and passive sentences are the key parts to take efforts and the course will also introduce a few idioms and culture knowledge from the texts. By the end of the course, students are expected to apply learned materials and express themselves at paragraph levels.

This course is a continuation of Intermediate Chinese I. The course fosters students’ abilities to better use the learned vocabularies and grammars in real life setting. More efforts will be taken on oral tasks of using complement of potentiality, series of ba-sentence, as well as general, specific and fuzzy references. The course will also talk about some idioms and culture knowledge related to the content. By the end of the course, students should learn at least 1200 Chinese words and develop an equivalent language ability of HSK- 4.