This is a course for absolute beginners of Chinese. No prior knowledge of the language is required. The course is taught in English.

TEXTBOOK
Lesson 1-3 in Let's Learn Mandarin (Level 1).

COURSE OBJECTIVES
After the course, students will be able to:

• Identify and comprehend conversation situations and reproduce conversation schemes in basic conversation situations given by the textbook
• Apply the conversation schemes and acquired vocabulary to other interactive conversation situations
• Read and write basic conversation texts given in the textbook
• Apply acquired grammar, vocabulary and increase necessary reading and writing comprehension

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

• Week 1: Lesson 1 Greetings: Chinese phonetics.
• Week 2: Lesson 1 Greetings: Grammar of shì, Chinese phonetics.
• Week 3: Lesson 1 Greetings: Grammar of yě, Chinese phonetics.
• Week 4: Lesson 1 Greetings: Grammar of ma, Chinese phonetics.
• Week 5: Lesson 2 Family: Grammar of yǒu, Chinese phonetics.
• Week 6: Lesson 2 Family: Grammar of liǎng, Chinese classifiers, Chinese phonetics.
• Week 7: Lesson 2 Family: Grammar of shénme, Chinese phonetics.
• Week 8: Lesson 2 Family: Grammar of shéi, Chinese phonetics.
• Week 9: Lesson 3 Socializing: How to talk about “not” in Chinese.
• Week 10: Lesson 3 Socializing: How to talk about place and activities.
• Week 11: Lesson 3 Socializing: Numbers, how to express time in Chinese.
• Week 12: Lesson 3 Socializing: How to make an invitation.

POZOR! Prodlužujeme možnost přihlášení a posunujeme tak začátek tohoto kurzu na 3. března. Děkujeme za pochopení.