Course: Chinese Conversation Level 1_A.1
Learn Chinese Mandarin for beginners, a language spoken by over one billion people!
The Confucius Institute in Auckland is offering a structured series of Mandarin language courses in 2021. Each course runs for ten weeks, with 1.5-hour evening classes held once a week, instructed by experienced teachers from the Confucius Institute.
About the Course
This is a beginner’s course to support learners with no or very little knowledge of the Chinese language who want to use basic Chinese in daily communications. This course will also create a good foundation for further learning of Chinese.
The course will cover:
- an introduction to the Chinese pronunciation system using pinyin
- introducing yourself
- telling the time
- dates
- basic conversation and more.
On completion of this course participants will be able to:
- pronounce Modern Standard Chinese using pinyin
- use simple expressions
- exchange basic greetings
- talk about occupations
- use Chinese numbers in your daily life eg. count, age, date and time.