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Fall in Love with Mandarin

Learn everyday Chinese Mandarin and discover Taiwanese culture in the process.

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Fall in Love with Mandarin

10,433 enrolled on this course

  • 4 weeks

  • 1 hour per week

  • Digital certificate when eligible

  • Introductory level

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Discover how to speak everyday Mandarin and explore the culture of Taiwan

Did you think Mandarin was impossibly hard to learn? Think again.

This course will introduce you to the fundamentals of everyday Mandarin, teaching you basic vocabulary for a range of everyday situations.

The course will also take you on a tour of Taiwanese culture, placing the Mandarin language in the context of the daily life of the island.

You’ll ultimately come to be able to communicate clearly and effectively in basic Mandarin – setting you up for a lifetime love affair with this beautiful language.

In this course, our educators will irregularly join the discussion with you, and, of course, at every step in this course, you are invited to share your ideas with us and other fellow learners.

Skip to 0 minutes and 7 seconds Hello, you are taking “Fall in Love with Mandarin” course from National Chiao Tung university, which is one of the best universities in Taiwan. In this course, we will have 4 topics to get familiar with Mandarin at beginner level, and the topics include making friends, ordering food, inviting someone, and introducing yourself. What we offer you in this course are very practical and fun to study. We hope you will enjoy and make the best use of Mandarin that you learnt from this course. See you in the course.

What topics will you cover?

  • Making friends: Say hello to your new friends
  • Ordering food: Get a famous drink in Taiwan
  • Inviting someone: Invitation and refusal politely
  • Introducing yourself: Talk about your advantages

This course may require the basic concepts of Mandarin pronunciation, since this course will begin with useful conversations in daily life.

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Learning on this course

On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Apply basic Mandarin/Chinese vocabulary and sentence in a range of everyday situations.
  • Discuss daily situations and needs in Mandarin/Chinese
  • Improve your communication skills in Mandarin/Chinese
  • Explore the culture of Taiwan

Who is the course for?

This course is aimed at anyone interested in learning Mandarin or the culture and lifestyle of the people of Taiwan, or wanting to take a Chinese language and culture course.

Who will you learn with?

I'm Assistant Professor in National United University. Learning Mandarin is fun and easy, just like the way we drink milk tea. If you do not believe me, let's join our course then you will see.

Who developed the course?

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) was originally founded in Shanghai in 1896 and was re-established in Hsinchu, Taiwan in 1958.

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$134/one-off payment

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