Contemporary Chinese II: 2.1

Build your Chinese vocabulary and compose simple sentences in Mandarin

When learning a new language, it can be extremely helpful to add cultural context as you learn, building more of your knowledge of the environment and culture around the language alongside the language skills themselves.

On this six-week course from ChinesePlus, you’ll learn new vocabulary and sentence structures to discuss topics such as the weather, past events, locations, and health. You’ll also build your general knowledge of Chinese culture to put your new skills into context.

Discover the structures for discussing past and present experiences in Chinese

As you progress through this course, you’ll master a number of new Chinese particles to describe past experiences and actions. Using the function words 过 (guo) and 了 (le), you’ll begin to compose simple sentences about changes in situations.

Develop more complex sentences using prepositions and adverbs

Once you have the basic skills to discuss a topic in another language, you then need to learn the different grammatical rules to form more complex and natural conversations.

This course will guide you through building complex sentences by using prepositions, adverbs, and clauses to expand your Chinese proficiency. You’ll practice both writing and speaking in Chinese in order to take your Chinese fluency to the next level.

Explore different aspects of Chinese culture

At the end of each week of this course, once you’ve added to your Chinese language skills, you will learn about a new aspect of Chinese culture to build out your general knowledge. This will help you to hold more natural conversations with native speakers.

Throughout the course, you’ll learn about a number of topics that will reinforce your language skills, from tourist attractions and the Chinese zodiac to common Chinese greetings and useful Chinese idioms.

This course is designed for anyone interested in learning the Chinese language. To benefit from this course, you will need an understanding of basic Chinese phonetics.

It is recommended that you complete the Contemporary Chinese 1 ExpertTrack first as it will give you the foundation you need for this course.

• Have you ever climbed the Great Wall?
• Welcome to Contemporay Chinese II: 2.1
• Weekly Overview
• I’ve raised birds before.
• You must be very familiar with Beijing by now?
• Language Points
• Weekly Summary
• Is everyone here?
• Weekly Overview
• She went to the hospital.
• What did you eat for breakfast this morning?
• Language Points
• Weekly Summary
• When did they arrive?
• Weekly Overview
• They took the train here.
• When did you borrow this book?
• Language Points
• Weekly Summary
• You’re dressed so beautifully today.
• Weekly Overview
• She sings very well.
• Mark is speaking Chinese especially fluently today.
• Language Points
• Weekly Summary
• The weather in my hometown is better than here.
• Weekly Overview
• It’s not so hot in my hometown.
• Is the weather in your hometown the same as here?
• Language Points
• Weekly Summary
• My hometown is in the northeast.
• Weekly Overview
• There’s a mountain on the north side of my house and a river on the south side.
• Is your home far from the sea?
• Language Points
• Weekly Summary
• Test & Summary