Conversational Chinese 2

Dates

• In-person: 6-8pm on Wednesdays, 2 October to 4 December 2024

Prerequisites

Completion of Conversational Chinese 1 or 20 hours of intensive Mandarin

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

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 student will also learn to recognise some basic characters.

The course aims to equip students with useful words and phrases for practical use and covers making requests in a cafe, enquiring about someone's nationality, making a request for help, asking for directions and places, discussing the menu and ordering dishes in a restaurant, making an appointment, asking for help in a shop, proposing a toast and giving a compliment.

Learning outcomes

• Acquire the confidence and ability to have simple conversations with native speakers to facilitate travel and study in China.
• Have established a core vocabulary of 300 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.

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

Please note: You can progress to Comprehensive 2 after completing Beginner Conversational Mandarin 1-2.