Chinese Advanced 1 is offered to students who have mastered 600-800 common Chinese vocabulary, have learned the basic anda range ofcompoundChinese sentencesand have moderate Chinese communication skills. This course employs a communicative approach by using real-life situations. At the same time, this course focuses on the improvement of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, and improves the students’ Chinese from all aspects at avantage (CEFR) level.
The duration of this course is for the whole winter semester while the students can learn about 300 commonly used words and related grammatical patterns. After finishing this course, students can have enough language to get by, with sufficient vocabulary to express themselves, though with some hesitation, both verbally and in writing, and can meet most living needs in China.