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Contemporary Chinese IV: 4.2

Chinese Plus via FutureLearn

Overview

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Complete your journey of contemporary Chinese

On this five-week course from Chinese Plus, you’ll bring everything that you’ve learned together to round off your Chinese language journey.

You’ll delve into some more cultural topics while also learning more complex Chinese vocabulary and grammar. Once you’ve successfully completed this course, you’ll be ready to engage in the language in the real world.

Explore internet life, cultural communication, and opinions on life, death, marriage in Chinese

Both age-old topics of conversation and modern-day developments are important to understand in order to engage in natural dialogues in a new language.

This course will take you through how universal subjects such as life, death, marriage, and childbirth are viewed and discussed in Chinese culture. You’ll also examine internet life, its development in China, and how it’s talked about.

Construct a complete narration in Chinese with complex details

Having built up a repertoire of Chinese vocabulary, grammatical rules, and sentence structures throughout your contemporary Chinese studies, you’ll pull together all of your newfound knowledge and skills to construct a complete and coherent narration in Chinese with rich details.

Go beyond the class to advance your language skills

Once you’ve completed this course, you’ll be ready to step into the world and start dialogues in Chinese Mandarin. But learning a language doesn’t stop there. You’ll explore how to study more autonomously beyond the course and continue to develop your Chinese language skills to truly master the language and open up a wide range of opportunities.

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.

Syllabus

  • A Dialogue Between Two Towers 双塔对话
    • Welcome to Contemporay Chinese IV: 4.2
    • Weekly Overview
    • News Report:双塔对话
    • Keywords Practice
    • Weekly Summary
  • Online, Offline: 网上网下
    • Weekly Overview
    • Dialogue: 千万别见面
    • Article: 网虫
    • Keywords Practice
    • Weekly Summary
  • Gender Equality 男女平等
    • Weekly Overview
    • Dialogue: 我做饭你洗碗
    • Article: 做女人难还是做男人难
    • Keywords Practice
    • Weekly Summary
  • DINK Family 丁克一族
    • Weekly Overview
    • Dialogue: 你怎么也回心转意了
    • Article: 丁克族的转变
    • Keywords Practice
    • Weekly Summary
  • Life and Death 生与死
    • Weekly Overview
    • Dialogue: “安乐死”还是“安乐活”
    • Article: 死的权利
    • Keywords Practice
    • Weekly Summary
    • Test & Summary

Taught by

Fasen Yuan

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