Mandarin Chinese in Motion: Essay-Writing Skills

Learn Mandarin with National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Are you gearing up to write your first essay in Mandarin Chinese? Don’t panic!

This four-week crash course from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University will give you the skills, knowledge, and vocabulary you need to ace essay-writing in Chinese.

Hone your Chinese grammar, vocabulary, and sentence structures

Before you begin practising writing, you need to refresh your knowledge of essential grammar and sentence structures.

You’ll start the course with an overview of standard word order and sentence patterns to get your brain thinking in Chinese mode.

Get hands-on writing practice and guidance from native speakers

After this introduction, it’s time to get stuck into some writing. In Weeks 3 and 4 of the course, you’ll write one short narrative excercise and one longer essay, giving you a chance to put your new writing skills into practice.

Throughout the course, you’ll get tailored guidance from your course leaders to ensure you have the understanding and tools you need to keep practising in your own time. You’ll finish the course feeling confident and ready to get stuck into your first Chinese essay.

This course is designed for anyone hoping to improve their vocabulary and writing skills in Mandarin Chinese.

To get the most out of the course, learners should already have spent a minimum of 100 hours learning Mandarin.

• Write your first Chinese sentence
• Welcome to the course
• Basic Chinese sentence patterns
• Word order
• Write a breif self introduction
• Write your sencond Chinese sentence
• Coordinating conjunction words 1
• Coordinating conjunction words 2
• Write a short message!
• Write your first Chinese essay
• How to describe people, places and things?
• Key Chinese grammar structure - modifiers
• Write a narrative essay
• Write your second Chinese essay
• How to Express Tenses in Chinese?
• Talking about the present, future and past
• Write a Longer Essay - An Unforgettable Day