Master the basics with our Chinese Mandarin Beginners course. Ideal for total beginners, you’ll build your knowledge over one year.
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Chinese Mandarin Beginners - Level 1 Course overview
Learn to communicate in the world’s most widely used language with our Chinese Mandarin Beginner’s course.
The course is designed to help you build a solid foundation in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. You will have a thorough grounding in the Chinese phonetic system, Hanyu Pinyin, and learn the essential vocabulary, sentence patterns and core grammar that will enable you to communicate confidently and effectively in various everyday situations. You will also learn to read and write simple Chinese characters, which offer unique insights into Chinese history and culture.
Who is it for?
This course is ideal if you have never studied Chinese before.
Find out more about our Chinese Mandarin courses
Timetable
The full beginners course includes 72 hours of online learning and is taught across six modules.
Benefits
- Delivered by a qualified and native Mandarin Chinese speaker
- Interactive and varied learning techniques
- Awarded a City St George’s, University of London certificate.
What will I learn?
Throughout the year, you’ll learn to
- Greet people, introduce yourself and talk about your family in relation to nationality, occupation, interests, abilities and hobbies.
- Say numbers 0-100; say the days and dates, tell the time and talk about your daily routines; talk about past events
- Exchange contact details; make phone calls, invitations and appointments.
- Order food and drinks; shop for clothes; ask for bills and pay for goods
- Ask and give direction; describe locations; talk about ongoing actions and future plans
Grammar
- Affirmative, negative, interrogative sentence patterns and word orders
- Question words, time words and time duration
- Numbers 0-100, Chinese currency units and common measure words
- Particles and auxiliary verbs to express past, present and future actions
- Introductory verbs and modals
Assessment and certificates
You will receive a Certificate of Completion from City St George’s, University of London, along with a digital badge for your LinkedIn profile.
To qualify, you must attend at least 70% of classes.
Teaching
Classes are highly interactive and include:
- Small group work and role-play
- Listening to audio materials (e.g. radio clips)
- Reading articles and texts
- Watching video content
- Digital learning tools to support your progress
You’ll also explore Chinese culture, current affairs and traditions alongside language learning.
Eligibility
This course is aimed as those who are completely new to Chinese.
If you have a little experience, or you are willing to do some self study to catch up, you can join us on one of the later Chinese Beginners modules.
Please do reach out to our team if you’re not sure which level is right for you.
Additional requirements
To enrol onto the Beginners Chinese course, you must:
- Have a good level of spoken and written English
- be age 18 or over
- have basic IT skills and a reliable internet connection to access lessons and course materials.
English requirements
You will need a good level of spoken and written English to enrol on this course.
Tutor
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Jingya Huang
Jingya Huang qualified as a Mandarin Chinese Teacher after postgraduate studies in the UK. She has taught Chinese language and literature in UK schools and worked for the Open University.
Jingya has taught learners of all levels, guiding learners to take GCSE, IB and HSK examinations and teaching business Chinese to professionals. She has also worked as a translator and an interpreter.
