Chinese

This Chinese language course is for students who have taken General Chinese Language Course - Beginning Chinese I or those who have taken Chinese for at least 100 hours. The course improves effective communication skills in daily life activities; teaches appropriate Chinese to make arrangements with friends, order food at restaurants, etc. Students practice reading, writing, listening, and speaking ability. Students also further their understanding of Taiwanese culture and language. This course uses the textbook "Practical Audio-Visual Chinese I" (Chapter 7 - Chapter 12). 

This course examines poetry and literature from the Tang dynasty to Song dynasty in classical Chinese. Students analyze line by line of the poetry written by famous Chinese scholars. These literati express their feelings, emotions, attachment, relationship with the garden they own in these poetry. The poetries are specifically on garden poetry---which is poetry written about gardens and the emotion of literati. The course is taught all in Chinese with readings in classical Chinese.

This course strengthens the intermediate learner’s language skill and culture knowledge in Chinese by learning words and phrases, sentences, grammar and related cultural knowledge. It includes classroom language practice opportunities such as sentence patterns, short conversations and a complete expression in Chinese. 

This class is mainly taught in Chinese and is for students who have mastered more than 450 Chinese words or have more than 320 hours of Chinese language instruction. The course includes Taiwanese pronunciation (initials, finals, intonation, transposition, soft tone, legato); spelling of Roman characters and review of commonly used Chinese characters in Taiwanese; sentence building exercises; question answering and dialogue exercises for advanced sentence patterns; Taiwanese songs; Taiwanese tongue twisters, popular proverbs, jokes, essays, and stories; and Taiwanese culture.

The course consists of reading and analyzing modern Chinese prose, short stories, poetry. The course requires in-class writing assignments and discussions, a presentation, as well as a creative writing assignment. 

This intermediate Cantonese course is designed to familiarize students with the use of more vocabulary and sentence structure. Vocabulary introduced is based on everyday conversations and daily usage. Focus will be on appropriateness in application.

This course strengthens Chinese listening, writing, and speaking skills and focuses on strengthening oral and expressive skills The course is designed for exchange students and visiting students only. The Chinese course is offered for those students who are taking Chinese course Intermediate I, II & III from NTU Center for International Education. The course aims to enable students to learn Chinese with joy through games and group activities. Except for improving students' listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, the course could help students further understand Taiwanese culture and language.

This course is broadly equivalent to A1 Basic user/ Breakthrough level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages..