The purpose of learn mandarin course has been specially compiled for the Chinese learner who have learned the Chinese language phonetics and can read the phonetics notes (pin yin).
This website mandarin course contains 20 lessons and covers all fundamental knowledge of basic communicate tools and grammar which a Chinese language learner should grasp. It should be able to satisfy especially those students who expect to improve their communication skills in Chinese within a relatively short period of time, in particular emphasizing the listening comprehension and the oral expression.
The mandarin course is based on a “task outline” principle and as such is divided into 20 lessons each emphasizing a different functional objective in basic communication.
Each lesson starts with a heading highlighting the specific teaching task of the unit and is followed by a number of sentences and phrases necessary to master the task given in the heading.
The second part contains conversations with typical communication tools for
a particular situation. The third part simply explains the vocabulary.
Exercises usually follow the basic sentences or are included after the vocabulary explanations.
The first twelve lessons are focused on practicing the use of basic sentences useful in everyday communication. The remaining eight lessons try to combine the basic communication skills with Chinese’s grammar and stress the vocabulary use and sentence patterns.
The goals to not only help students grasp the basic ability in social intercourse but also acquire a practical knowledge of basic Chinese’s grammar. The fourth part contains combined exercises in listening, speaking and reading. First, after listening reading, the students should answer the questions about the content,practice their listening andreading comprehension.
Next, based on these answers and questions, they should retell the content of the lesson from different speakers’ points of view.
This website emphasizes the oral expression skills since the primary purpose of learning is its practical application.
Speaking according to a picture is a way to put to practice the functional knowledge already learned.
“Fill in the blanks” exercises as well as answering the teacher’s questions according to the actual circumstances plus “everybody speaks” exercise essentially allow students to apply whatever theory they have learned in every unit. If the students complete the exercise and grasp the basics, they should be absolutely capable of elementary social intercourse in Chinese. This way this website’s objective would be also met.
The content takes the experience of two students coming to China to join a short-term class as a main thread and is organized according to their everyday needs paying special attention to the order of priority. At the same time, it also particularly highlights the colorful and vivid language of the youth. Every unit is followed by a brief note.
High lighting some important aspects of Chinese’s culture and as such will certainly prove very beneficial to all the students coming to China for the first time.
Language and culture are closely connected. This website will not only help students get used to life in China, but also it will certainly make it easier for them to more deeply understand Chinese culture and Chinese language.
The students who are using this website will be able to solve the problems by directly contact the webmaster online by skype or email to saving a lot of time and effort.
The mandarin course of this website will contain 20 lessons and can be divided in 100 class units. If you come to China for only a short period of time to travel, for example, one month of summer
vacation, it is the most suitable website for you. You can study for a week, Monday through Friday, while during the weekend you may go to your newly acquired skills. And after you finish the coursework, you can still use these language skills in real life situations similar to those in this website course.
At that time the suitable phrases will just spontaneously come out your mouth.
