Chinese

This course is designed for the learners with basic listening, speaking, reading and writing abilities, and with a command of more than 2500 Chinese vocabulary and general Chinese grammars. Through learning, students should be able to make short and consistent speeches and conversations on familiar topics in daily life, social life and business activities, and express their ideas more accurately in oral and written forms.

ADVANCED SPOKEN CHINESE I

This tutorial course is directed towards those who are enrolled in the Intermediate Chinese and Intermediate High Chinese levels of the NTU General Chinese Language Course. This course helps students polish their listening and speaking skills in making effective daily conversation. The course focuses on listening and speaking, training students to communicate with basic vocabulary and grammar in dealing with daily issues such as ordering meals, asking directions, making requests and leaving a message, etc.

This course is directed towards those who have taken Advanced Mid Chinese III of the NTU Chinese Language Course for International Students or those who have learned Chinese for at least 700 hours (6hrs/week). This course will not use a specific textbook, but will discuss topics by the class to develop proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Through the course, students will be able to use appropriate Chinese to carry on discussions, and read newspapers and magazines to further understand Taiwanese language and culture.

The "Selected Readings of Ancient Chinese" course is a preliminary course for international undergraduate students studying ancient Chinese in the Chinese Department. Its purpose is to allow international students to develop a certain ability to read ancient books by studying a certain number of ancient classic works, and lay a solid foundation for the study of ancient Chinese courses in the future. 

This tutorial course is directed towards those who are enrolled in the Advanced High Chinese levels of NTU General Chinese Language Course. This course does not use a specific textbook, but will discuss topics of interest chosen by the class to develop proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing. The course will provide a space to use appropriate Chinese to carry on discussions and read newspapers and magazines to further understand Taiwanese language and culture. By the end of this course, students are expected to be capable of expressing oneself fluently on the discussion of specific articles and topics.  Student swill be capable of reading magazines and newspapers containing difficult vocabulary and special sentence structures.

This course is directed towards those who have taken Intermediate High Chinese of the Chinese Language Course for International Students or those who have learned Chinese for at least 350-400 hours (6 hours/week). 

This course uses the textbook Practical Audio-Visual Chinese III (chapter 1~ chapter 7) to help students develop proficient language skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing that would enable them to communicate effectively in their daily lives. Students will learn commonly used new vocabulary and grammar that are not often used in daily conversations. Students will be able to use appropriate Chinese language to carry on discussions to further understand Taiwanese culture and language as they progress through the course.

This course is intended to give a panoramic view of contemporary China. The topics are restricted to different aspects of the status-quo of China, including people and nationalities, food and cuisines, languages and dialects, festivals and traditions, marriage and family, leisure and entertainment, arts and sports, traffic and transport, travel and world heritage, natural resources and environment protection, mass media and publication, education and research, politics and government, religions and beliefs, information technology and internet, cities and countryside. Each topic is framed into 10 to 15 questions and presented in an easily accessible way with statistic figures, stories, pictures and video clips from different sources in order to ensure objectivity. The aim of the course is to offer a panoramic view of contemporary China in the selected aspects and help understand the variety and diversity of contemporary Chinese society.

This course is directed towards those who have taken Elementary High Chinese of the NTU Chinese Language Course for International Students or those who have learned Chinese for 200-250 hours (6hrs/week). This course uses the textbook Practical Audio-Visual Chinese II (chapter 1~chapter 7) to help students develop proficient language skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing that would enable them to communicate effectively in their daily lives. Students will further understand Taiwanese language and culture and language through the course. 

ADVANCED INTENSIVE CHINESE I