Chinese (Mandarin) 1: writing for beginners

City Lit

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£ 39 VAT inc.

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Description

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    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Start date

    Different dates available

The course aims to help you to gain a basic understanding of Chinese characters progressing towards forming words and short sentences.

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London
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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course

- Recognise 30 characters
- Identify radicals of some characters
- Write some basic characters
- Begin to look up words in a Chinese and English dictionary.

No additional costs.

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Subjects

  • Writing
  • Mandarin

Course programme

The course will help you to understand the following topics:
- Evolution of Chinese characters
- Strokes and stroke orders
- Radicals
- Structure of Chinese characters
- Different types of characters
- Different styles of character writing
- Typing Chinese characters on your smart phone
- Tracing characters.

The course is based on the communicative approach: - active students’ interaction - emphasis on speaking and listening skills - pair and group work - use of realia, pictures and authentic material - use of audio-visual techniques when appropriate Please note, students are expected to participate in oral classroom activities.

Additional information

Please ask your tutor. General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00. See the course guide for term dates and further details

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Chinese (Mandarin) 1: writing for beginners

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