Conversational Chinese 1
Dates
- In-person: 6-8pm on Wednesdays, 2 October to 4 December 2024*
*Please note this course is now full. Please browse our other courses on offer.
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 September 2022)
How to enrol
This course is now full.
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).
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.