Class Description

This course is designed for students with at least 2 years of exposure to Chinese. Multiple topics in real life will be introduced in this course. Students will use common expressions and polite greetings to exchange information for various topics, such as self-introduction, family members, school, occupation, weather and season, leisure activities, meetup plans, food and drink, color and clothes, vacation and travel plans, etc. Students will learn to function in real-life situations using advanced and commonly used vocabulary, complex sentences, and language structures.

Students will have frequent teacher and peer interactions throughout this 12-class session. This course provides students with substantial opportunities for oral presentations. Students will practice frequently to communicate in Chinese with each other. This will be a highly interactive and engaging language class, and it will be fun, too!  

Teacher’s Biography

Ms. Chen has volunteered in a Chinese school in Northern Virginia and has teaching experience for over ten years.  

If you want to learn Chinese in a fun way, she is here for you. Through sentence patterns and situations, you can understand Chinese and focus on speaking skills. The fundamental purpose of learning a language is not only for test scores but also for communication. No matter what materials she uses, she always elaborates and provides a lot of practice. She also guides the students and offers small group discussions to make sure everyone is making progress.

Required Textbook

Sun, Yi-Fen eds., Let’s Learn Mandarin (來! 學華語). Taipei: Overseas Community Affairs Council (OCAC), Republic of China (Taiwan). 2021.

Liu, Jihua ed., Speak Mandarin in Five Hundred Words (五百字說華語). Taipei: Overseas Community Affairs Council (OCAC), Republic of China (Taiwan), 2012.