Chinese Elementary 4 is offered to students who have mastered 450~600 common Chinese vocabulary, have learned the basic Chinese sentencesand 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 vantage (CEFR) level.
The duration of this course is for the whole summer 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 wide range of topics, are able to communicate fluently with native Chinese speakers on the topics they are familiar with, and meet moderate living needs in China.