Survival Chinese is a crash course to gives you a basic knowledge of the language. This 2-week course runs at 5 evenings per week with a total of 20 credit hours for learners with little or no prior knowledge of Mandarin, and is on offer twice a year (in January and in May respectively). It is designed as if you were going to visit China right after, so it is theme-related and topic-based learning, focusing on listening and speaking skills.