Comprehensive Chinese 4 Intermediate

Dates

• In-person: 6-8pm on Mondays and Thursdays, 30 September to 5 December 2024

Prerequisites

Completion of Comprehensive 3 or at least 90 hours of Chinese learning.

Fees

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

*Available to current University of Manchester staff and students, and returning CI students (must have completed a course with us since September 2022)

How to enrol

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

Course description

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

The course covers leaving the classroom/conference room, business trips, gifts, watching TV, tidying the house, appreciating the moon, looking for suggestions, shopping online, seeing the baby, toothache, asking for leave, asking for someone’s information, borrowing money, buying pets, job interview, changes, talking about photos, football, etc. 

This course is between the HSK 3-4 Exam or CEFRL B1-B2.

Learning outcomes

• Grasp at least 1,000 Chinese characters, 1,500 words and 90 grammar structures
• Conduct increasingly complex conversations in Chinese and will also have more of an understanding of expressions of tense and the deeper functions of Chinese grammar

Learning materials

• HSK 3 Standard Course Lessons 11-20. Beijing Language and Culture Press.

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