Comprehensive Chinese 7 Post-Intermediate

Dates

• We are not able to offer this course in June 2026

Prerequisites

Completion of Comprehensive Chinese 6 or 150 hours of intensive Chinese or passed HSK 3 test.

Fees

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

*Available to current University of Manchester staff and students, and returning CI students (must have completed a course with us since Spring 2024)

How to enrol

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Course description

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

The course covers talking about shopping, sale advertisements, talking about health and wellbeing, talking about beauty and a good mood in life, weight, successful experiences and standards of happiness.

This course is for the HSK level 4 (part 2) or CEFRL B2 level (part 2). 

After completing the Comprehensive Mandarin levels 6-9, students should be able to take the HSK 4 exam.

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 160 words and 25 key grammar structures
• Conduct complex conversations and narrations in Chinese and understand deeper functions of Chinese grammar

Learning materials

• Chapter 6-10, HSK 4 Standard course (Volume A/上), Beijing Language and Culture Universities Press.

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