This course takes a communicative approach to language learning with an emphasis on real life situations. The student continues to develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills along with the study of grammatical structures. The course is designed to introduce 200 Chinese characters and the emphasis is on real life situations. This course emphasizes conversation and composition. Students prepare conversations and short compositions about selected topics.
Students learn to use and understand an additional two hundred Chinese characters.
This course is designed to prepare students for travel to China. This course extends the previous year's work. Students continue to develop reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. Students use a college text, The Practical Chinese Reader . This course prepares students to enter intermediate Chinese at the university level.