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FutureLearn

HSK Standard Course Level 2: 2.1

Chinese Plus via FutureLearn

Overview

Grow your confidence in communicating in Chinese

On this interactive five-week course from ChinesePlus, you’ll continue to build a solid foundation of the Chinese language to use in everyday situations.

Develop your knowledge of Pinyin, the Chinese phonetic system

As you progress, you’ll develop your phonetic knowledge of Pinyin by practising the stress in disyllabic, trisyllabic, and quadrisyllabic words, improving your fluency and becoming proficient with the stress in a sentence.

Explore Chinese characters and the Chinese writing system

Learning both Pinyin and the Chinese writing system together can help you overcome the challenges of connecting the written Chinese characters with their corresponding sounds.

This course guides you through both the phonetic system and writing system, side-by-side, allowing you to master your pronunciation and character writing alongside your language learning throughout this course.

Discover useful Chinese phrases and greetings and basic Chinese grammar

Each week, you’ll explore different language points, learning everyday phrases to help you communicate useful information. From talking about travel plans and your favourite sports to acknowledging someone’s birthday and passing on a message, you’ll build up a linguistic repertoire of useful Chinese phrases.

To further help you communicate in Chinese, you’ll also develop your understanding of Chinese grammar, including how to use the adverb of degree, the adverb of time, and different sentence structures.

This course is designed for anyone with experience in basic Chinese. It is recommended that you have completed the HSK 1: Chinese Language for Beginners ExpertTrack or that you have at least 30 hours of Chinese language experience.

Syllabus

  • September is the best time to visit Beijing
    • A trip to Beijing
    • What sport do you like
    • We should buy some new chairs
    • There is a cat under the table
    • Pinyin and Characters
    • Week 1 Summary
  • I get up at six every day
    • What time do you get up
    • Did you take your medicine
    • How tall is he
    • He has been busy lately
    • Pinyin and Characters
    • Week 2 Summary
  • The red one on the left is mine
    • Is this watch yours
    • Let me see, it's the milkman
    • The small one beside it is my daughter's room
    • Have you seen my cup
    • Pinyin and Characters
    • Week 3 Summary
  • He recommended me for this job
    • Happy birthday
    • Someone called you this morning
    • I was 11 when I played football for the first time
    • How long have you been working here
    • Pinyin and Characters
    • Week 4 Summary
  • Take this one
    • Let's go to a restaurant for dinner
    • What do you think of this garment
    • Are you thinking about yesterday's test
    • Too much coffee is bad for our health
    • Pinyin and Characters
    • Week 5 Summary

Taught by

Xiaochen Zhang

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