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..

This course teaches basic Taiwanese language. The course includes basic pronunciation of consonants, vowels and tones; Taiwanese advanced pronunciation: tone, softly, legato; Taiwanese Romanization spelling and Taiwanese Chinese characters; simple greetings, basic vocabulary terms and a variety of topics; Taiwanese life (living in Taiwan, customs and taboos); basic sentence of sentences exercises, quizzes and conversation practice; Taiwanese songs; basic information, family status, personal preferences; and basic terminology (numbers, time, color, orientation, call). The course utilizes the text, HARVARD TAIWANESE 101.

This course is based on the historical era (but not in the literary history mode). It focuses on the selection of the classic values of ancient poetry to understand the spirit of Chinese traditional culture. At the same time, it introduces the Chinese poetry in combination with the interpretation of the works. In this process, it highlights the beautiful life and social ideals of the ancestors, as well as the outstanding artistic innovation spirit, showing the charm of classical language. The courses focuses on the in-depth analysis of specific works, explores the problems faced by human beings in the process of human development and social progress, and guide students to carry out independent and positive thinking.