INTRODUCTORY
LEVEL FOR ENGLISH SPEAKERS
COURSE OUTLINE
Instructor:
Sharon Cai, teaching licence, over 14 years experience in teaching Mandarin for
public and private schools, universities and community centers in
This course is intended for those who have no or little
background/knowledge in Chinese Mandarin.
The goal of this course is to provide students with fundamental skills
in listening, speaking, reading and
writing Mandarin Chinese and to help them, through a vast amount of
practice, achieve basic Mandarin skills.
Background information on
Lecture One
·
Chinese Pin Yin – Vowels (15), Consonants (21) and Semi Consonants
(2)
·
Hello
/ How are you? / Chinese Greetings
Lecture
Two
·
What’s
your name?
·
Where
do you live?
·
Country and Language
Lecture
Three
·
Numbers
·
Telling
Dates & Times
Lecture Four
·
How
To Count Money (The
·
Shopping
Lecture
Five
·
My family
·
What do you do?
·
Self-Introduction
Lecture
Six
·
Chinese
Food
·
Dinning
in a restaurant
Lecture
Seven
·
Basic
Travel Conversation In
Lecture
Eight
·
Summary
/ Overview
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL
FOR ENGLISH SPEAKERS
This course is for
adults who are interested in continuing to effectively improve their ability to
communicate in Mandarin and to master(Hanyu) Pinyin after attaining the basic pronunciation and
conversational skills. Emphasis is placed on expanding the basic knowledge of
Mandarin through oral comprehension and conversational methods combined with
some indispensable aspects in reading, writing and grammar.
Lecture One
·
Review
of Pin Yin and Tones
·
Clothes
and Colours
Lecture Two
·
Fruits
and food
·
Body
parts
Lecture Three
·
Diseases
·
Visiting
the doctor
Lecture Four
·
·
Mid
Autumn Festival
·
Chinese
Poem
Lecture Five
·
Animals
·
Weather
Lecture Six
·
Sports
·
Making
a telephone call
Lecture Seven
·
Occupations
and Job Interview
Lecture
Eight
·
Summary
/ Overview
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL
TWO FOR ENGLISH SPEAKERS
We recommend you complete Level
One and Level Two Courses before you enroll
in Level Three if you have not taken Mandarin course before. At this
level you will consolidate what you have learned in the previous levels and
continue to learn 8 more lessons. Upon completing this level, you should have
learned most of topics of daily life. You should be able to communicate in
Mandarin in a wide range of topics without relying an
interpreter while you live and work in
Lecture One
·
Pin
Yin & Tones Review
·
Chinese
Sentence Structure
·
Greetings
in Formal & Casual Occasions
·
Chinese
Pop Song / Children’s Song
Lecture Two
·
Thank
You & Apologize
·
Congratulations
Lecture Three
·
Giving
Compliments
·
Asking
Directions
Lecture Four
·
Taking
a Taxi & Bus
·
Daily
Commodities
Lecture Five
·
Kinds
of Vegetables
·
Dinning
Conversation (3)
Lecture Six
·
At
The Airport
·
In
The Hotel
·
Business
Telephone Conversation
Lecture Seven
·
·
Chinese
Short Article: Confucius
Lecture Eight
·
Summary
/ Overview