Intermediate Chinese completes the overview of the important sentence structures of modern standard Chinese begun in Beginning Chinese.
Equal emphasis is placed on the four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking.
Speaking classes cover practical, everyday situations, to develop interactive competence at a basic level in a range of situations likely to be encountered in daily life in contemporary China. Comparison will be made with English sentence structure where relevant. Verbal Communication Reading and conversation practice based on selected topics. This subject is available to students who have passed Beginning Chinese, Part 2, or who have equivalent Chinese language ability, such as that acquired by second language learners on completion of VCE Chinese.