Chinese Elementary 2 is offered to Chinese beginners who can just have simple and limited communications in Chinese. 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 competency from all aspects at a basic/waystage (CEFR) level.
The duration of this course is for the whole summer semester while students can learn about 150-200 commonly used words and related grammatical patterns. After finishing this course, students can have a good grasp of basic Chinese and can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar matters.