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Mandarin Essentials for Beginners

Offered By: MandarinX via edX

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Mandarin Courses Business Communication Courses Chinese Characters Courses Pinyin Courses

Course Description

Overview

Diversify your skill set by learning to speak and recognize commonly used Chinese characters and practical phrases with a Professional Certificate in Mandarin Essentials for Beginners from MandarinX. Increase access to numerous business opportunities by learning the second most widely spoken language in the world.

Created by a top-tier, research based team at MandarinX, this certificate program helps you obtain the language skills you need through the use of the romanization system of writing called Pinyin and enables you to recognize traditional and simplified Chinese characters.

This online course contains the fundamentals you need to get started learning and speaking basic Mandarin with confidence.

Today’s market is filled with scattered information which doesn’t facilitate a comprehensive or solid foundation; this program was created to provide knowledge through a communicative approach that is motivating and engaging.

By the end of this online program, you’ll have familiarized yourself with the essentials of Mandarin Chinese including sentence structure and phrases that are applicable in real-world scenarios.


Syllabus

Courses under this program:
Course 1: Mandarin Chinese Essentials

This course is your first crucial step to learning Mandarin Chinese. Learn essential skills for communicating in Chineseincluding tones, pinyin, grammar, characters, and basic structures all within the context of a business environment.



Course 2: Mandarin Chinese Level 1

Mandarin Chinese is rapidly becoming one of the top languages to learn, especially for business. Learnbasic language skills for business scenarios in Mandarin-speaking countries.




Courses

  • 11 reviews

    6 weeks, 4-10 hours a week, 4-10 hours a week

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    Chinese is, without a doubt, the most spoken language on the planet.

    Learning Chinese will help your company or organization break into the biggest market on the planet. Being able to properly and correctly introduce yourself in Chinese will help you open the door to a whole new world.

    Mandarin Chinese Level 1will introduce you to the basic language skills you will need to eat, live, and get around in Mandarin speaking countries, building your confidence to communicate effectively with colleagues, clients and friends in Chinese.

    If you enroll in the verified track, you will be able to participate in the Webinar lectured by Dr. Estella Y. Chen, who will lead the discussion with a wide variety of popular topics to accompany you to the world of chinese business culture and trend.

    What's more, in the verified track, we'll give you three pronunciation lessons that will help you communicate more smoothly and effectively in a business environment.

    Since this is a language course, we recommend taking this course with a friend or group of friends. Practicing with others by speaking the language will help you learn it more effectively.

    Additionally, Mandarin is a tonal language, which means that in order to truly master it, you will need to say the words out loud! Join the community of over 900 million native Mandarin speakers and start learning today!

  • 0 reviews

    5 weeks, 4-10 hours a week, 4-10 hours a week

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    Chinese is a critical language for all global organizations. Mandarin Chinese Essentials features a thorough basic Chinese virtual learning experience at your pace!

    Switching from Latin alphabet or other phonogram languages to Chinese can be intimidating and frustrating. This prerequisite course breaks down all basic characteristics of Chinese language, ensuring you have a solid foundation to be a competent speaker in a business environment.

    We will introduce one rule with practices and related dialogues through videos that includepractical businessconversations.

    We provide solid learning system that is essential for beginners to differentiate and construct sentences, and then use them in workplace and business scenarios.

    If you enroll in the verified track, you will be able to participate in the Webinar lectured by Dr. Estella Y. Chen, who will lead thediscussionwitha wide variety ofpopulartopicstoaccompanyyou to the world of chinese business culture and trend.

    What's more, in the verified track, we'll give you three pronunciation lessons that will help youcommunicate more smoothly and effectively ina business environment.

    No previous knowledge needed. We start from the beginning!

    This course was developed with the assistance of Dr. Haohsiang Liao, Director of the Chinese Language Program at MIT.


Taught by

Estella Chen

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