

Weekend Beginner Mandarin 1 – Survival 101
Jan 23 @ 10:00 am - Mar 27 @ 11:30 am
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Our courses are online so you don’t need to worry about Coronavirus disruptions and with the lower online price you can stretch your learning further!
Course Objectives
This course focuses primarily on helping you, as a beginner, to acquire basic conversational skills across a range of survival topics. These are your realistic expectations:
- Master Pinyin to set a solid foundation for future learning
- Able to exchange basic personal information with Chinese people
- Develop fundamental understanding of how the language is structured
- String simple sentences together, independently!
- Start to make sense of Chinese characters, and learn them systematically
- Understands approaches to learn Characters quickly and systematically
Course Outline
We tailor the content and pace to each class to ensure everyone’s objectives are met. As an indication, this course typically covers:
- Pinyin and tones!
- Basic greetings
- Introducing yourself, occupation, and nationality
- Introducing others such as family and friends
- Numbers, dates, days of the week and making plans
- Ordering simple food & drinks
- Field trip to a Chinese restaurant – order your meal in Chinese!
- Cultural insights: social and business etiquette, numbers and meanings, dining etiquette and more
- Chinese characters:light introduction including their fascinating origin, and strategies to recognise and learn them easier and quicker
Textbook
Please order the textbook here so that you can be ready when the course starts!
Mastering Chinese1 Paperback (Palgrave Master Series (Languages))
Who Is the Course Suitable For?
- Complete beginners or as a refresher
- Not sure if this course suits you? Do this quick 15 minute assessment test.
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Pay in 3 instalments
Split your payment into 3 equal parts via Direct Debit (with a nominal £4 fee). The first instalment will be taken when you place your order.
Why Choose This Course?
- Learn faster, speak more and have fun in the process
- Better pronunciation, able to apply what you’ve learnt more independently
- Wealth of lesson resources (audio, ppt, exercises) for missed lessons
- Small classes of no more than 5 people
- Satisfaction Guaranteed! No quibble refunds available if you are not completely satisfied




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