Course Overview

This is the second part of the Beginner level course. We will continue to help you acquire essential conversational skills across a range of frequently encountered topics.

• Understand and communicate more effectively with Chinese people about basic personal information, such as age, contact details and daily routines
• Start to make simple social conversations in Mandarin such as – travel plans, leisure activities, ordering a drink, and making arrangements to go out with Chinese friends or business contacts
• A fun cultural immersion activity with a natural Chinese speaker – ordering a bubble tea at London’s China Town
• Construct simple sentences in the correct tense and order with less help from others
• Strengthened conversation and listening skills, can understand when a speaker uses simple language and speaks slowly!
• Acquire a good understanding of Chinese character fundamentals – the logic and the shortcuts behind, and a small number of basic characters
• Similar to lower HSK 1 level

Course Outline

Typical topics in this course include:

• Measure words
• Able to ask age, phone numbers and WeChat
• Able to ask and talk about birthdays
• Able to talk about travel plans
• Telling time, and time expressions
• Daily routines
• Able to make arrangements to go out
• Making requests for drinks (more milk, no sugar, less ice)
• Chinese Characters: basic stroke order, combined stroke orders, common structures, basic strokes with 永
• Field trip – ordering your bubble tea at London’s China Town!

Textbook

Please order the textbook here so that you can be ready when the course starts!
Mastering Chinese1 Paperback (Palgrave Master Series (Languages))