Getting started with Chinese 3

Have you previously learned some basic Mandarin Chinese and now want to go a step further? This third introductory course in the Getting started with Chinese series will help you consolidate your language skills and provide you with some essential vocabulary and expressions to improve your Mandarin Chinese in everyday situations. You will practice speaking, listening, writing and reading through a variety of online activities that will allow you to enjoy the full experience of immersing into the Chinese language and culture.This OpenLearn course is an extract from the beginning of the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures short course, LGXC003 Beginners Chinese 3: 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: Long-time no see, you have become taller!
• Introduction
• 1 Preparation
• 2 Adjectives – building your vocabulary
• 3 Useful greetings
• 4 ‘Topic + comment’ sentences
• 5 Using le 了 to indicate change of state
• 6 文化 Culture: the Chinese concept of beauty
• 7 What would you say?
• 8 Character combination and word formation
• 9 Build a language notebook
• 10 This week’s quiz
• 11 Practising and consolidating
• 12 Practising and expanding: character head components 月 and 心
• 13 Summary of Week 1
• Acknowledgements
• Week2Week 2: My dad is older than my mum
• Introduction
• 1 Revision
• 2 Changing adjectives into noun phrases
• 3 Comparisons with bǐ 比
• 4 Four-character idioms and expressions
• 5 Modifying comparisons
• 6 What would you say?
• 7 Character combination and word formation
• 8 This week’s quiz
• 9 Practising and consolidating
• 10 Practising and expanding: thinking of register
• 11 Summary of Week 2
• Acknowledgements