Intensive Chinese II

Catalog description

Intensive 2nd-year college-level Modern Standard Chinese designed for students who are highly motivated and have successfully completed at least 1st-year college-level Modern Standard Chinese language course or equivalent. Reviews and reinforces 1st-year Chinese grammatical patterns and introduces new ones in order to further develop students' communicative competence in listening, speaking, reading and writing in modern Chinese. Introduces over 500 new characters and presents and expands an equal number of spoken vocabulary items. Students increase their vocabulary, consolidate their grammar, describe objects and express ideas more accurately and fluently.