Getting started with Chinese 2

Have you always wanted to speak Mandarin Chinese? Have you even started learning a few basic words and expressions? If so, this follow-up to Getting started with Chinese 1, or your own equivalent knowledge of the language, will give you more essentials of reading, writing, speaking and listening through a variety of online activities. A perfect online short course to develop further the skills needed to speak and understand simple Mandarin Chinese in everyday contexts!This OpenLearn course is an extract from the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures short course, LGXC002 Beginners Chinese 2: 开始吧 kāishĭ ba! After completing this free course, you may wish to register for the full course to continue your learning!

• Introduction
• Introduction
• Open Centre for Languages and Cultures
• Acknowledgements
• Week1Week 1: I learn Chinese in the evening
• Introduction
• 1 How to refer to different languages
• 2 Daily activities
• 3 Time expressions
• 4 Names of countries, people and language
• 5 What would you say?
• 6 Build a language notebook
• 7 Practising and consolidating
• 8 Typing Chinese characters
• 9 Word formation
• 10 This week’s quiz
• 11 Summary of Week 1
• Acknowledgements
• Week2Week 2: What are you going to do tomorrow evening?
• Introduction
• 1 I watch TV on Monday morning
• 2 I am going to London tomorrow
• 3 Asking questions with ‘what’ and ‘where’
• 4 Use of dōu 都 (both/all)
• 5 dōu 都: asking about habitual actions
• 6 Emphatic dōu 都 in statements
• 7 Location, location, location
• 8 Choice questions with háishi 还是
• 9 What would you say?
• 10 Build a language notebook
• 11 Practising and consolidating
• 12 Head components
• 13 This week’s quiz
• 14 Summary of Week 2
• Acknowledgements