Mandarin Level 1, Part 1 (one week intensive)

This one-week intensive course is taught over 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday) from 10.00 to 13.00.

By studying Mandarin Level 1, you will be able to communicate in very basic everyday-life situations, including greetings, daily activities, finding your way, telling the time and date, making simple purchases, ordering a meal, etc, be able to understand very simple oral and written texts and ascertain specific information on simple topics, have developed an insight into Mandarin - speaking life, culture and society.

Part 1

Topics

• Greetings and farewells
• Names and titles
• Nationalities and languages
• Likes and dislikes
• Family and family members
• Telephone number

Functions

• Greeting in formal and informal ways

• Introducing oneself and others
• Addressing people properly
• Finding out someone’s nationality, identification and language background
• Formal and informal ways of addressing others
• Using numbers (birth date, telephone numbers, etc.)
• Exchanging personal information
• Expressing agreement/disagreement
• Talking about family members
• Asking and telling people’s age
• Asking and giving contact details

Grammar

• Introduction to pinyin and the tones
• Introduction to radicals, strokes and writing rules
• Word order for sentences

• Sentences with a verbal predicate
• Sentences with a nominal predicate
• Sentences with an adjectival predicate
• Sentences with 是
• Questions ending with 吗, 呢, 吧

• Questions with interrogative pronouns 哪, 哪里, 哪儿, 怎么样, 几, 多少, 多大,
• The position of the adverbs 也, 只, 都
• Negative sentences with 不
• Measure words for nouns
• Sentences with 在
• Pivotal sentences with请
• Sentences with the modal verbs 可以
• Question patterns: X 不 X , X 还是Y

When Mandarin Level 1 is complete, you will achieve the equivalent of A1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), entry level of the Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF).