Beginners Chinese Courses in Auckland
Learn Chinese with the Latin Rhythm Dance School's 8 week Chinese course. This course is intended for students with no prior knowledge of Chinese. You will learn how to communicate in Chinese in everyday situations, through written and oral exercises, role-playing and multimedia.
Course Outline: This course will include greetings and farewells, asking and providing personal information, ordering food and drinks, asking for information, requesting and giving directions, conjugation of most common regular and irregular verbs and important aspects of Chinese Culture.
Learning Goals: On completion of the course learners will be able to introduce him/herself to a Chinese speaker and exchange greetings; pronounce Chinese accurately; construct sentences using the present, past and future tenses; be able to ask questions about travel routes and timetables; ask directions and understand the response; conjugate a range of regular and irregular verbs in the present, past and future tenses.
Duration: Each evening course is made of 8 x 1 1/2 hour weekly classes, ie once a week for 2 months. There are no classes on Public holidays.
Streams: Classes are limited to around 10 students.
More information: Visit http://www.chineseinstitute.co.nz
Lessons
Unit 1: greetings & Alphabet
Unit 2: introducing yourself
Unit 3: the place i live in
Unit 4: family
Unit 5 people
Unit 6: routine & leisure time
Unit 7: food & restaurants
Unit 8: describing weather