Long-term Chinese Language Courses

Class

Length

Students

Goals of teaching

Elementary Class

One year

Students with no exposure to Chinese

Mastery of 2,000 commonly-used Chinese vocabulary; Mastery of basic Chinese grammar for foreigners; Mastery of 500 to 800 Chinese characters; Acquisition of basic reading ability (aided by Pinyin);
Ability of basic daily conversations;
Ability to write Chinese compositions of about 200 characters

Main courses:
Chinese for Beginners;
Listening for Beginners;
Speaking for Beginners;
Elementary Conversation;
Recognition and Writing of Chinese Characters;
Reading for Beginners

Intermediate Class

One year

Students with elementary Chinese proficiency

Mastery of 3,500 commonly-used Chinese vocabulary;
Mastery of intermediate Chinese grammar for foreigners;
Mastery of at least 1,500 Chinese characters;
Ability of reading general Chinese newspapers and books;
Ability for fairly fluent conversations in Chinese;
Ability to write Chinese compositions of about 500 characters

Main courses:
Intermediate Listening;
Intermediate Speaking;
Intermediate Reading;
Intermediate Chinese;
Intermediate Reading and Writing;
Chinese Stories

Advanced Class

One year

Students with intermediate Chinese proficiency

Mastery of at least 5,000 commonly-used Chinese vocabulary;
Mastery of advanced Chinese grammar for foreigners;
Mastery of at least 2,000 Chinese characters;
Ability of reading Chinese newspapers and books, and literary works and mastery of required written Chinese;
Ability for fluent conversations in Chinese;