Comprehensive Chinese 2 Post-Beginner

Dates

  • In-person: 6 - 8PM on Mondays and Thursdays (4hrs/week), 6 October - 11 December (40 hrs in total)
  • Online: 10AM - 1PM on Saturdays (3hrs/week), 11 October - 13 December (30 hrs in total)

Prerequisites

Completion of Comprehensive Chinese 1 or at least 30 hours of Chinese learning.

Fees

In-person weekday fees:

  • Full fee: £340
  • Discounted fee: £306*

Online weekend fees:

  • Full fee: £255
  • Discounted fee: £230*

*Available for current University of Manchester staff and students, and returning CI students (must have completed a course with us since Autumn 2023)

How to enrol

Read our Enrolment T&Cs and enrol via our e-store.

Course description

This post-beginner course focuses on all four core language skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening.

The course covers enquiring about location; giving directions; enquiring about price; bargaining; Chinese currency; telling the time; enquiring about opening/closing times; enquiring about timings and distances; more detailed directions; going to the doctors; expressing a change in state or condition; the contrast between past and present; asking about exchange rates and currencies; ask for and give specific information of past action; express the length of an accomplished action; asking and saying how far one place is from another; comment on an action with a verb complement; use of verb complements of state and manner; use of duration expressed in a V-O construction; talk about currently continuous activities; talk about continuous activities in the past; talk about two concurrent activities; expressing disagreement indirectly; expressing the idea of “both…and…”; expressing an imminent future action; expressing past experiences, and expressing two consecutive actions in a sequence.

By the end of this course, students should be able to attempt the HSK 2 Exam or CEFRL A2.

We recommend that three hours of independent study be undertaken each week to ensure students can keep up with the pace of the course.

Learning outcomes

  • Grasp at least 450 Chinese characters, 600 basic vocabulary and 45 basic grammar structures
  • Conduct increasingly complex conversations in Chinese

Learning materials

  • Chinese in Steps Volume.2 (Cypress Books Co. 2012).

For an example of the course content view our textbook extract.