Chinese Elementary 3 is offered to students who have mastered about 300-400 common Chinese vocabulary and have the basic 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 a preliminary/threshold (CEFR) level.
The duration of this course is for the whole winter semester while the students can learn about 150-200 commonly used words and related grammatical patterns. After finishing this course, students can converse in Chinese on a range of topics, are able to communicate with native Chinese speakers on the topics they are familiar with, and meet simple living needs in China.