Mandarin: Intermediate II

Learn oral expression in idiomatic Mandarin. By the end of the course, you should be able to use vocabulary and idiomatic phrases appropriate for some formal occasions. You should also be able to read and write 300 simplified characters and their corresponding pinyin romanization. The course is designed to develop the functional language abilities of beginning learners in using Mandarin Chinese in linguistically and culturally appropriate ways at the beginning level. We emphasize training students in four language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) and aim to help students acquire communicative competence in Chinese while sensitizing them to the links between language and culture. The course focuses on the learning process as well as results. Classroom activities involve instructional lectures, student-centered activities and group tasks.