Intensive Beginning Chinese I & II

Catalog description

This intensive course is designed for students with limited prior exposure to Mandarin Chinese or other Chinese dialects who are not yet prepared to advance to the next level. The course develops a solid foundation in the four core language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) within an interactive and communicative learning environment. Instruction emphasizes language accuracy, including correct pronunciation, accurate tones, and mastery of essential grammatical structures. Students are expected to acquire approximately 600–700 high-frequency vocabulary items over the semester. By the end of the course, students will be able to manage a wide range of everyday linguistic and cultural situations, such as shopping, ordering meals, making comparisons, narrating simple stories, discussing weather, describing basic medical conditions, asking for directions, making invitations, arranging travel and housing, and discussing personal interests and sports.