Our Chinese Elementary 1 course is designed for students who has finished Beginner Level 1 learning or are able to do the below:
- Can pronounce Pinyin confidently
- has knowledge of basic Hanzi
- ideally has knowledge of 300 or more vocabularies.
- can conduct a good basic conversation, give self introduction and have good understanding of verb aspects
In this course, students will continue to learn with Pinyin but ideally can start to pick up the essential Hanzi introduced in the previous courses. In each of our Elementary course, 50 Hanzi will be introduced along with the best ways to memorize them. Our lessons maintain strong focus on conversational skills training talking about your travel planning, buying tickets, hotel check-in, asking for directions etc.
Our key grammar points covered include the concept of verb complements, and extensive use of result complements; how to modify nouns using 的; how to tell distance using 离; a few ways to say rough numbers using 多,几,左, how to connect sentences etc.
If you have learnt all of these, you can consider taking the next course – Elementary 2.