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.
