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Learn Mandarin: How to Express Health Issues in Chinese

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NCYU) via FutureLearn

Overview

Develop your Mandarin language skills

This three-week course will help you gain intermediate Mandarin Chinese language skills to effectively communicate health issues.

Designed for learners who have already achieved level 1 according to the “Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language (TOCFL)” specification, this course will focus on discussing a variety of health topics in Chinese.

With this knowledge, you’ll be able to confidently communicate and navigate daily life in Taiwan.

Learn essential Chinese grammar and vocabulary

You’ll follow step-by-step content, interactive videos, and real-life examples designed by language experts to help you master Mandarin Chinese.

Through this exploration, you’ll learn the key grammar and vocabulary you’ll need to discuss different health issues in a variety of contexts.

Take your Chinese Mandarin skills to the next level

On the course, you’ll learn essential Chinese Mandarin to help you describe simple health symptoms and go to the pharmacy to buy medicine.

You’ll also learn how to discuss the importance of health as well as wider issues such as environmental pollution.

Learn from the experts at National Chiao Tung University

Throughout the course, you’ll be guided by the language specialists at National Chiao Tung University.

With their expertise, you’ll finish the course with the knowledge and confidence to discuss health issues in Mandarin Chinese.

This course is designed for learners who have already achieved level 1 of the “Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language (TOCFL)”, which is equivalent to CEFR-A1.

Learners at this level will have spent 120-240 course hours in Chinese speaking areas and 240-480 course hours in non-Chinese speaking areas and they possess basic grammar and about 500 high-frequency vocabulary.

Syllabus

  • Feeling and pharmacy
    • I am not feeling well.
    • The drugstore near the school
  • Symptom and hospital
    • I can’t stand the itch
    • The doctor wanted her to stay in the hospital for a few days.
  • Health issue
    • Health is really important
    • There is more and more pollution in modern life

Taught by

May Wen

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