Chinese language: five steps to success. Part 4 - 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 fourth course will cover the following grammatical topics: adverbs 就 and 才, a simple element of direction, clarifying the question with 是不是, 不但…. 而且... “not only... but also...”, adverbs 又 and 再, 又 ...又..., rhetorical question, additional element of possibility, difference between elements of degree, result and possibility, verbal suffix 着, sentences of existence, 每 each, prepositional construction 从А起, comparison with 比, identity, increasing feature 越…越…, construction with the preposition 离, comparisons with verbs.