Course Overview

You’ll expand your Mandarin to more challenging daily life topics, with richer details and increased fluency.

• Enjoy travelling to China with more independence – learn how to check in to a hotel, make specific requests, describe missing items and explain simple situations
• Start to expand beyond simple polite ‘information sharing’ to ‘chit chat’ conversations – expressing likes and dislikes, express conditions, opinion, reasoning, and making phone calls to family and business colleagues on basic routine matters
• Continue to primarily focus on speaking, listening and pronunciation
• Develop confidence to construct sentences with increased accuracy and fluency
• Keep learning ‘building blocks’ of Chinese characters, including a small number of basic characters used in daily life in China
• An enjoyable cultural immersion session – a visit to the Chinese section of the British Museum – to hear fascinating insights into Chinese history and culture!
• Level: similar to HSK 3

Course Outline

• Travel – getting a taxi, bus and train, modes of transport
• Asking for and giving directions and basic Chinese street signs
• Talking about the weather
• Able to check-in to a hotel and request basic amenities
• Making requests and asking for permission
• Safe travels – describing missing items and situations
• Expressing likes and dislikes
• Comparative form of adjectives, expressing conditions for activities
• Leisure activities – express reasons
• Leisure activities – express frequency
• Making and answering phone calls
• Problems on the phone
• Revision & consolidation
• Cultural immersion session
• Cultural insights: leisure in business
• Chinese characters: common radicals

Textbook

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