CONC

Conversational Chinese for post-elementary, intermediate, upper intermediate and advanced learners

32 hours

A placement test will be conducted to ensure you are studying at the correct level. Post-elementary students would normally have completed Survival Chinese Level 2 or around 60 hours of Chinese study.

The course uses an approach where spoken Chinese and Chinese character writing are taught separately. Teaching materials will mainly use Chinese pinyin and characters will be used only as a supplementary tool. Learners will decide for themselves whether to learn them or not. Main focus is on improving speaking and listening. Each text centers on a topic useful for daily communication. The new grammar is presented in interesting and lively context, which enables students to understand it fully and use it fluently. Students are acquainted with various ways of memorizing new lexical items such as: making vocabulary networks, arranging words in collocations, in pairs of synonyms and antonyms, word families. (More info)