Chinese

The aim of Intensive Chinese Reading is to improve the students' reading and writing skills by learning vocabulary and grammar.

Basic Class: Mainly for students with zero Chinese ability, or at the stage of learning Pinyin, common Chinese characters and simple Chinese words and sentences.
 

This course is for the first-year students of the International Baccalaureate Class of the Chinese Department, hoping to guide the foreign students in the class to understand Chinese in a systematic way. The phonetics, phonology, characters, vocabulary, grammar, and pragmatics of Chinese will be discussed in class. There are specific topics every week (see the weekly schedule for details), and in principle, they are taught one by one according to the textbook chapters. In class, besides the teacher's explanation of various language phenomena, students will also practice and analyze language phenomena, and arrange classroom quizzes or homework as appropriate. It is hoped that through this method, students can actually understand what they have learned, apply it to daily language analysis, and develop a certain level of language observation and vigilance.

This course is for students who have taken Intermediate II of the Chinese Language Course for International Students or those who have taken Chinese for at least 600 hours. The course develops proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing to deal with complex situations within daily lives, and discuss about complex issues, such as economy, transportation, societal culture. Students learn to read simple document forms and announcements and to write a short essay of at least 500 words to express oneself. This course uses the textbook “Far East Daily Chinese III” (chapters 1-7). Assessment: attendance and participation (20%), quizzes (20%), assignments (20%), midterm exam (20%), final exam (20%).

This course refines and enhances language skills for advanced communication. Students develop practical language skills, cultural insight, and the ability to independently explore Chinese material. Topics include Cultural Differences in Using Terms of Endearment, Women's Professional and Family roles in life, Seeking Employment or Entrepreneurship, Experiencing Local Traditions as a foreigner, and Appreciation of Classic: Kong Yiji.

This course is for students who have taken Intermediate II of the Chinese Language Course for International Students or those who have taken Chinese for at least 600 hours. The course develops proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing to deal with complex situations within daily lives, and discuss about complex issues, such as economy, transportation, societal culture. Students learn to read simple document forms and announcements and to write a short essay of at least 500 words to express oneself. This course uses the textbook “Far East Daily Chinese III” (chapters 1-7).