Expand your Chinese vocabulary and construct more natural conversations
On this five-week course from ChinesePlus, you’ll begin your advanced Chinese journey. With the basic and intermediate language knowledge as your foundation, you’ll learn new vocabulary, phrases, and paragraph structures to make your Chinese dialogue much more natural.
Explore expressing emphasis, complaints, and criticisms in Chinese Mandarin
You’ll look at how to express emphasis and negation in Chinese via dialogues and articles; being introduced to new vocabulary through audio and visual tasks.
Later in the course, you’ll build on this by learning ways to construct sentences and paragraphs that express complaints and criticism in Chinese.
Discover the Chinese language structure to tell a story in chronological order
Storytelling is a vital part of any language and many conversations revolve around the art of telling a story, whether you’re recounting a real incident or weaving a fictional story.
This course will guide you through the keywords, phrases, and sentence structures needed to tell a story in chronological order. Through listening, reading, writing, and speaking in Chinese, you’ll grow your storytelling skills, being able to understand others’ stories as well as tell your own.
Explore more cultural aspects of China such as family and relationships
With any language, there are many cultural nuances such as the way we address elders or the myths that shape metaphors. It’s important to understand the culture behind a language to fully embrace the language and avoid offending others.
You’ll finish each week of this course by exploring a different aspect of Chinese culture. These topics include the Chinese philosophy of human relationships, the 4-2-1 family pattern that has emerged in recent years, and the Chinese number superstition, among other subjects.
This course is designed for anyone interested in learning the Chinese language. To benefit from this course, you will need a solid foundation of intermediate Chinese words, expressions, and grammatical structures.
It is recommended that you complete the Contemporary Chinese 1 ExpertTrack, the Contemporary Chinese 2 ExpertTrack, and the Contemporary Chinese 3 ExpertTrack first as they will give you the foundation you need for this course.
