Foreign Language 1: Beginning Mandarin 1

As the entry-level foreign language module for students with zero or minimal skills in the target language, this course lays emphasis on improving the ability of the learner to use Chinese for Communication. It integrates the communicative function with grammatical structure and presents the most essential and useful part of the language in the linguistic environments one is usually exposed to in daily life, so as to enable the learner to master the 301 basic conversational sentences fairly quickly, and on that basis, through “Substitution and extension” practice, to acquire the ability to carry on simple conversations with the Chinese In this way, the course will also help lay a solid foundation for further study.