Conversational Chinese 1
Dates
- In-person: 6-8PM on Wednesdays, 5 February to 9 April
Prerequisites
None
Fees
- Full fee: £170
- Discounted fee: £153*
*Available to current University of Manchester staff and students, and returning CI students (must have completed a course with us since January 2023)
How to enrol
Read our enrolment T&Cs and enrol via our e-store.
Course description
A beginners' course which focuses on developing the skills of listening and speaking in Mandarin Chinese.
The course aims to equip the students with useful words and phrases for practical use, and covers greetings, making an acquaintance, making an enquiry (time/directions/reservations), and fulfilling daily needs (purchasing items/catching buses/ordering food, etc).
We offer all students who complete a term with us the opportunity to apply for a two-week summer school in Beijing. Find out more about the Language Summer School.
Learning outcomes
- Acquire the confidence and ability to have basic exchanges with native speakers to facilitate travel in China.
- Establish a core vocabulary of 150 Chinese words used in everyday contexts.
Learning materials
All teaching materials have been specifically developed by our teachers using a variety of sources and so all learning materials will be provided throughout the course.
| Lesson | Topics | Including |
|---|---|---|
| Lesson 1 | Greetings | Numbers, useful phrases |
| Lesson 2 | Self-introduction | Age, family, job |
| Lesson 3 | Where are you going? | Locations |
| Lesson 4 | Booking a hotel | Date |
| Lesson 5 | Buying tickets | Time |
| Lesson 6 | Having a meal | Food, price |
| Lesson 7 | Making an appointment | Making enquiries |
| Lesson 8 | How to get to... | Directions |
| Lesson 9 | Seeing a doctor | Symptoms |
| Lesson 10 | Do you speak Mandarin? | Giving/accepting compliments. Review of the whole course |
For an example of the course content view our course extract.