Chinese language: five steps to success. Part 3 - course 1800 rub. from Open education, training 8 weeks, about 5 hours per week, Date November 30, 2023.

This course is an expanded version of the well-known and popular St. Petersburg State University course “Chinese for Beginners”. For ease of completion and greater flexibility of learning, the course is divided into 5 steps, each of which will lead the student to mastery of the Chinese language at level A1-A2.

What awaits you in the course:

• vocabulary and hieroglyphics, including the order of strokes in writing hieroglyphs;
• grammar with detailed explanations and examples;
• examples of conversational phrases for learning;
• animated situational mini-dialogues, the purpose of which is to demonstrate how the studied material can be applied in speech;
• exercises of various types that students must complete independently in order to consolidate the material covered;
• various reading materials from the “This is Interesting” section will be provided in the form of text files, telling about the history of the language, the culture of China, the habits of the Chinese, etc. This section will, among other things, present a large list of additional literature for those interested in China.

The third course will cover the following grammatical topics: verbal suffix 过, resultative morphemes (additional element of result), simple element of direction, complex definitions, expressing cause-and-effect relationships, expressing the future tense using the construction 要…了, construction 是…的, colors in Chinese, intensifying construction with 一点儿也 and negation “not at all...”, ordinal numbers, interrogative pronouns in the function of negative and attributives to enhance the meaning, an additional element of degree (verbal 得), parallel constructions with relative pronouns, disjunctive construction 之一, fractions and percentages, continuing action, adversative conjunctions 可是 and 但是, subordinate clauses 虽然 …可是/但是.

8 weeks, about 5 hours per week,

Start November 30th