Chinese Beginner 1 is designed for students with no prior Chinese knowledge or experience.
At the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Read, pronounce, and use the pinyin writing system
- Produce and identify the 4 tones of Mandarin Chinese
- Greet someone and ask how they are
- Introduce yourself (or someone else)
- Tell someone where you are from or where someone else is from
- Use the numbers from 1 to 100
- Ask someone their job and describe your own job or that of a family member
- Say the date of your birthday
- Name the days of the week and the months of the year
- Say your nationality and ask about the nationality of others
- Tell time
- Talk about your favorite passtime(s) and ask others about theirs
- Talk about something you did in the past, something you do in general, and something you will do in the future
- Make plans with someone (ex: weekend activity)
The primary topics covered are:
- Alphabet
- Greetings
- Numbers 1-100
- Telling time
- Family
- Professions
- Dates (days/months)
- Question pronouns
- Sharing and asking about basic biographical information
- Likes and dislikes
- Hobbies
The grammatical topics covered are:
- Simple verbs
- Question pronouns
- Word order
- Simple adverbs
- Measure words
- Numbers
- Modifiers
- Alternative questions
- Affirmative + negative questions
- Simple conjugations
- Modal verbs
- Verb + object as detachable compound