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<p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #ba372a;"><strong><span class="s1" style="color: #e03e2d;">CMN-BEG-1.</span> </strong></span>FIRST part of the three-course long <span class="s1" style="color: #e03e2d;">Mandarin Beginner 1</span> sequence.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">An all-adults class.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Materials are not included in tuition.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="s2"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #e03e2d; text-decoration: underline;">Beginner 1 level description:</span></span> </span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A great course for those who have never had any Mandarin Chinese or those who would like to start their studies over from scratch. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Students will learn the building blocks of Chinese grammar and vocabulary including reading, writing, and conversation in order to ask and give personal information, express intentions, describe places, and talk about hobbies and personal preferences.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Objective:</strong> The course is to provide students the most basic skills in studying Mandarin; to understand the differences between traditional and simplified characters and the benefits and disadvantages of both, to master the pronunciation,</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Learning Outcome: </strong>Upon completion of this course, students will be ounce Mandarin correctly, including tones, read and write around 100 word introduce oneself or others, exchange greetings, ask about someone's nationality, talk about family members, ask about someone's profession, express time, dates and age, arrange a date or an appointment, and invite someone to a dinner or movie.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Topics:</strong> Chinese pronunciation system, surnames and full names, basic and ordinal numbers, particles — "de" "ma" "ne", nationalities, greetings and introductions, measure words, question pronouns, dates and time.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #e03e2d;"><strong>Next Level:</strong></span> Mandarin Beginner 1.2 or greater.</span></p>
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