What will I learn in Chinese Intermediate 3?

This course is designed for students who can apply their knowledge of grammar concepts to participate in simple conversations with reasonable accuracy.

Please note that the prerequisite for Chinese Intermediate 3 is Chinese Intermediate 2 or equivalent proficiency.

In addition to the cumulative material, at the end of the course you will be able to:

  • Organize the vocabulary learned in a more distinguished manner, nouns, adjectives, verbs
  • Construction more complex and detailed sentences based on organized use of vocabulary
  • Increase sentence construction skills into engage in longer and more meaningful conversations
  • Ask someone out on a date, straight forward or subtly
  • Reject someone’s good intention politely and subtly
  • Recognize different spaces and rooms in a house
  • Rent an apartment/house with desired outcome
  • Convince someone to do certain activities (sports) with more effort and persuasion
  • Describe a complicated sport (football)
  • Comprehend narrations on cultural topics, Chinese New Year and the character of Chinese people
  • Understand simple Chinese idioms involving numbers, colors, animals
  • Recognize 100+ Chinese characters
In addition to the cumulative material, the topics covered are:
  • Review of vocabulary network and sentence construction
  • Asking someone on a date
  • Renting an apartment
  • Sports
  • Chinese New Year
  • Character of Chinese people
  • Chinese idioms

In addition to the cumulative material, the grammatical topics covered are:

  • More fluent use of descriptive complements
  • Time duration continued
  • More on particles that change the sentence order
  • Directional complements
  • More particles attached to verbs