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  • 【Course】 Beginner-Level Mandarin Course (2-Week Program)
    2025.03.18

Practical Chinese in Action: Mastering Language through Conversation, Culture, and Experience

A beginner course supported by the esteemed NCKU Chinese Language Center

Period: August 4th-August 15th

Contact hours: 50 hours

Outcome: Certificate awarded by the NCKU Chinese Language Center

Fees: Complimentary (offered by NCKU AISSM)

Course Description

This course focuses primarily on oral training for daily conversations, with reading and writing as supplementary skills.

Through meaningful contexts, the course integrates extensive listening and speaking practice and practical conversation tasks to enhance Chinese proficiency.

Additionally, students are encouraged to actively document their experiences in Taiwan, observe various cultural aspects, and apply what they learned in class to share their experiences in Chinese.

█ Course Material

 

1. A Course in Contemporary Chinese book 1
2. Instructor-designed material

Progress Description

Date Morning (2 hours) Afternoon (3 hours)
August 4 Course Introduction & Pronunciation Chinese Characters & Review
August 5 Material: Lesson 1 Material: Lesson 1
Conversation Activity: Making Friends
August 6 Material: Lesson 2 Material: Lesson 2
Conversation Activity: Buying Drinks
August 7 Material: Lesson 3 Material: Lesson 3
August 8 Material: Lesson 3
Conversation Activity: Invitations
Material: Lesson 4
August 11 Material: Lesson 4 Material: Lesson 4
Conversation Activity: Ordering Food
August 12 Material: Lesson 5 Material: Lesson 5
Conversation Activity: Visiting Night Markets
August 13 Material: Lesson 5 Material: Lesson 6
August 14 Material: Lesson 6 Material: Lesson 7
August 15 Material: Lesson 7 Material: Lesson 7
Presentation: Sharing Experience in Taiwan

 

Instructor Contact Information

LU, TIENU-YUN (tienyun_rita_lu@gs.ncku.edu.tw)

Instructor for the College Chinese & Program of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, National Cheng Kung University