Your first step to speak Chinese
Our Chinese Beginner 1 Course is designed for beginners with zero or little Chinese learning. Students will start with intensive Pinyin (phonetic system) pronunciation training to build the foundation for any further learning. 50 essential Hani (written system) and its history will also be introduced in this course. There is a strong focus in conversation practise in each of our lessons.
Our topics in this course include greetings, self-introduction, numbers, countries, job, daily activities, like and dislike. Our key grammar points covered include basic sentence structures, basic question forms, 是 , 有 and 在 sentences, basic use of adjectives and adverbs.
If you have learnt all of these, you can consider taking the next course – Beginner 2.
Lesson Topics
Lesson 1 – Greeting
Lesson 2 – Nationality
Lesson 3 – Numbers
Lesson 4 – Family
Lesson 5 – Job
Lesson 6 – Mid-term review
Lesson 7 – Phone Numbers
Lesson 8 – Birthday
Lesson 9 – Weekly Routine
Lesson 10 – End-term review:
Chinese Beginner 1 intensive (Nov-15 start)