10-Day Intensive Mandarin Chinese Course

Short-term Mandarin Chinese study programme at Culture Yard 

Morning Classes Run Mondays to Fridays 10:00am – 12:00pm

Paige: Paige graduated from the Zhejiang Normal University with a degree in teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. After she graduated in 2009 she started teaching at the Chinese Language & Culture School, working with all level Chinese group classes. Now on the Culture Yard team Paige is teaching our 10-day intensive Chinese workshop, a perfect workshop for foreigners who want a quick, yet in-depth, introduction to the Chinese language. She speaks Mandarin and English.

Topics Covered Over 10-Day Period:

Day 1:  Introduction – An overview of pinyin pronunciation, writing and reading.

Day 2:  Introduce yourself –  Learn how to introduce your name,nationality,family member and what language you speak.

Day 3: Numbers, Countries and Directions- learn numbers  1 -1000 and how to ask how much something is. As well as the directions (North, South, East West) and continent and country names.

Day 4: Taxi talk – Learn the basic conversational skills needed to describe where you are going and how to give and understand directions.

Day 5: Food – Learn how to order in restaurants and names of various foods in Chinese.

Day 6: Colours and clothes – Introduction to general colours and items of clothing

Day 7: Shopping – Use what you learnt from last week to description what you are looking for, what size and how to bargain.

Day 8: Time – Learn how to say and ask for the date and time

Day 9: Transportation – Learn modes of transportation, all the verbs needed to describe travelling around the city. As well asking questions such as ‘which bus do I take?’ or ‘how can I get here with the subway?’

Day 10: Conversation Review – Go over everything learnt over the past 9 sessions and hold conversations with other students in the class.

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Price: ￥1500 for Monday-Friday, 2 weeks (20 hours).

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Contact us: workshop@cultureyard.net or 010-84044166

How to find us: Culture Yard, n°10 Shique hutong, Line 5 Beixinqiao,Dongcheng, Beijing (Take exit C and walk 400 metres to your left).