Syllabus

• Week 1

  Introduction to Chinese: useful expressions

  • How to express time in Chinese?

    We will introduce some useful expressions of time and give a brief introduction to the Chinese Spring Festival Gala.

  • How to express dates in Chinese?

    We will introduce some useful expressions of dates and give a brief introduction to the Chinese lunar calendar.

  • How to express basic personal information?

    You will learn how to use “是” to give information about yourself such as your name, nationality and career. We also give a brief introduction to 姚明 Yáo míng and 成龙 Chéng lóng..

  • How to make questions with an interrogative pronoun?

    We will introduce how to use different question words to ask questions such as “who，where and what”and talk about where old Chinese people usually go for exercise.

• Week 2

  Introduction to Chinese: some basic sentence structures

  • Introducing Adjectival Predicate Sentences

    This kind of sentence does not need a verb, as the adjective follows the subject directly. We usually use this kind of sentence to describe something. Here we will also give a brief introduction to Pandas.

  • Expressing “something is present in a specific location”

    You will learn to use sentences with “有yǒu” to show existence. Put simply, it expresses “something is present in a specific location”.

  • Expressing purpose with more than one verb

    There is usually only one verb in a Chinese sentence, but here we will introduce sentences that have two verbs or verbal phrases. We will give a brief introduction about some very famous scenic spots in China.

  • Emphasizing something with the structure“是……的”

    We will learn how to emphasize the time and location of past events, and the manner in which they occurred with the structure“是……的”. We will also give you a brief introduction to the Bund and metro.

• Week 3

  Introduction to Chinese: useful words and expressions

  • How to express the comparison of two things?

    Here we will learn to use the preposition “比” to compare the qualities and characteristics of two things and get to learn about weather in Shanghai.

  • The Usage of “了”

    We are going to introduce the particle “了” after verbs to indicate completion of an action.

  • The Usage of adverbs “也” and “都”

    Here we are going to discuss the position of the adverbs “也” and “都” . We will also give a brief introduction to Chopsticks.

  • The Use of adverbs “才” and “就”

    If we want to indicate something is done early or quickly, we can use the adverb“就”before time words，while we use the adverb “才”to indicate that something is done late or slowly.

• Week 4

  Introduction to Chinese: complements and Ba-sentence

  • Resultative Complements

    You will learn about resultative complements, expressing the results of actions and learn some things about Chinese paper cutting.

  • The time-measure complement

    If we want to indicate the duration of an action or state，we can use the time-measure complement. Here we will also give a brief introduction to Beijing Opera.

  • Simple directional complements

    Here we will discuss “来”and “去” when placed after the verb as a complement, it shows the direction of the verb. It’s called a simple directional complement. We will have a brief talk about Shared bicycles in this lesson.

  • “把” Sentence

    We will introduce the main use of “把” sentences to describechanges in object position.

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