Elementary Chinese
Beginner's course, especially recommended for students starting the study of Chinese for the first time. Grammar, composition, and reading. Practice in speaking and understanding Mandarin.
Beginner's course, especially recommended for students starting the study of Chinese for the first time. Grammar, composition, and reading. Practice in speaking and understanding Mandarin.
Fourth semester course in Cantonese. Continuation of extensive oral training in Cantonese. Designed for students who wish to continue acquiring more advanced skills of the standard spoken language with a minimum of formal grammar. Students should have command of tone and markings, rather than Chinese characters.
Intensive training in written and spoken Mandarin with emphasis on reading, speaking, and composition. Increased linguistic ability in both English and Chinese are used as a basis for increasing vocabulary and enhancing reading and writing skills through short stories, poems, essays and compositions. Pre-advanced training in written and spoken Mandarin.
Second semester course in Mandarin grammar, composition, and reading. Practice in speaking and understanding Mandarin Chinese language and culture.
Second semester course in Cantonese. Continuation of extensive oral training in Cantonese. Emphasis on practical vocabulary and idiom rather than on formal grammar and literature. Students will learn Romanization rather than Chinese characters.
Beginner's course in grammar, composition, and reading. Practice in speaking and understanding Mandarin.
Beginner's courses. (Especially recommended for students starting the study of Chinese for the first time.) Grammar, composition, and reading. Practice in speaking and understanding Mandarin.
Grammar, composition, and reading at a basic intermediate level of Chinese. Practice speaking and understanding Mandarin. Understanding of Chinese culture. Not open to native speakers of Mandarin.
Grammar, composition, and reading at a basic intermediate level of Chinese. Practice speaking and understanding Mandarin. Understanding of Chinese culture. Not open to native speakers of Mandarin.
An intensive study of 300 commonly used characters, including detailed analysis of their radicals and salient structural components. This course is also designed to enhance Cantonese speakers' skills in reading and writing Chinese and cultural awareness of characters in Cantonese-speaking regions.