Elementary Chinese
Course code
CIC6011.CI
old course code
CIC6011
Course title in Estonian
Hiina keel algajatele
Course title in English
Elementary Chinese
ECTS credits
15.0
Assessment form
assessment
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
To develop prerequisites for the acquisition of oral and written language skills in Chinese at A1 level according to the European Language Portfolio. The course is designed to target the students who have no knowledge of Chinese.
This course provides a thorough foundation in basic Mandarin Chinese by helping students to grasp basic skills of Mandarin Chinese: listening, speaking, reading and writing, as well as the cultural context in which the language is spoken.
This course provides a thorough foundation in basic Mandarin Chinese by helping students to grasp basic skills of Mandarin Chinese: listening, speaking, reading and writing, as well as the cultural context in which the language is spoken.
Brief description of the course
Following topics are covered in this class: greetings; daily life; identifying people; asking for direction; giving advice; university study; family; likes and dislikes; making an appointment; making apology.
Grammar: word order in sentence; main strokes of characters; Yes-no questions; sentence with “是”; questions with an iterrogative pronoun; combine character strokes; questions; abbreviated question with “呢; numeral-measure words as attributives; sentence with “有” ; sentence with a nominal predicate; quesion with “..., 好吗？”; sentence with an adjectival predicate and “很”; optative verbs: 会，能，可以，应该；sentence with serial verb phrases; entence with a subject-predicate structure as predicate; alternative questions; optative verbs: “要，想，愿意”; pivotal sentences; optative verbs: “可能，会”; , etc.
Grammar: word order in sentence; main strokes of characters; Yes-no questions; sentence with “是”; questions with an iterrogative pronoun; combine character strokes; questions; abbreviated question with “呢; numeral-measure words as attributives; sentence with “有” ; sentence with a nominal predicate; quesion with “..., 好吗？”; sentence with an adjectival predicate and “很”; optative verbs: 会，能，可以，应该；sentence with serial verb phrases; entence with a subject-predicate structure as predicate; alternative questions; optative verbs: “要，想，愿意”; pivotal sentences; optative verbs: “可能，会”; , etc.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- Can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type
- Can introduce him/herself and others and can ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, people he/she knows and things he/she has.
- Can interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.
- Can pronounce initial consonants, final sounds and tones of Chinese syllables accurately
- Grasped the pronunciation, structure, meaning and writing methods of 350 basic Chinese characters
- Mastered about 1000 Chinese words
- Understands new passage in which new words are less than 3%
- Understands basic Chinese grammatical items
- Can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type
- Can introduce him/herself and others and can ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, people he/she knows and things he/she has.
- Can interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.
- Can pronounce initial consonants, final sounds and tones of Chinese syllables accurately
- Grasped the pronunciation, structure, meaning and writing methods of 350 basic Chinese characters
- Mastered about 1000 Chinese words
- Understands new passage in which new words are less than 3%
- Understands basic Chinese grammatical items
Teacher
The course is a prerequisite