An all-adults class.
Materials are not included in tuition.
Here is a summary of what students will learn by the end of the High-Beginner 1 level:
Objective: To comprehend and compose more complex sentences; to study etymology of basic characters; to converse with much advanced vocabularies and be understood by interlocutors who accustomed to dealing with non-natives.
Learning Outcome: Upon completion of this course, students can expect to compose complete paragraphs, apply sophisticated vocabulary and construct compound-complex sentences. Students should also be able to talk about climate and the weather, order dishes and drinks in a restaurant, ask for and give directions, make suggestions, describe durations of time, describe someone's appearance, and talk about common illnesses with a doctor.
Topics: Weather patterns, complex comparison structures, ordering Chinese dishes, partially agree or disagree with others, reduplication of adjectives and verbs, action in progress, verbal phrases and subject-predicate phrases used as attributives, time duration, describe a past tense action, (ba) construction, location adverbs.
Next Level: Mandarin High-Beginner 2 or greater.