Learn Chinese in Kunming

Learning Chinese Classes Offered:

Intermediate / Advanced Chinese
This is a class for students having completed 2 to 3 years of Chinese language study outside of China. Students taking these classes should be able to converse readily in Mandarin, able to express thoughts and opinions in a coherent manner, understand classes taught entirely in Chinese and be able to read and write approximately 1,300 to 1,500 Chinese characters. Upon completion of this course students shall be able to read simple novels, newspaper articles. In addition, students will be able to conduct conversations on general and advanced topics at a normal speed, express themselves in paragraphs, and be able to use comparatively complicated sentence structures and idiomatic expressions in a gramatically correct fashion. A core advanced textbook will be suplemented by newspaper readings, excerpts from novels and other materials. Students taking this course will study a minimum of 1,300 additional characters and should have a working vocabulary of 3,500 to 4,000 words, as well as having achieved fluency in the language upon completion of this course.