"The world is of the
opinion that those who know Chinese characters are wise and worthy, ..."
Zheng Qiao
(1104-1162), Encyclopedic Annals
FAQ's
| CHN 001/002
| CHN 051/052
| CHN 095/096
| CHN 101/102
| CHN 201/202
Information about Language Recourse Center
at UVM
CHN 001
Course Objectives: 1. To enable you to communicate
(listen, speak, read, write) accurately and appropriately in simple Chinese for
common everyday purposes such as greeting, introducing friends and relatives,
identifying people or objects, asking for one's personal information (including
name, occupation, nationality, address, phone number), expressing gratitude to
someone, sending someone your regard, making a reply to a complimentary remark,
talking about your family, your school and your studies, looking for someone,
seeing a guest off, asking the time, making an appointment, making an
invitation, making a suggestion, asking for someone’s opinion, buying
something, and offering congratulations.
2. To lay a good foundation for you
to further your studies of the Chinese language at intermediate level by
helping you (a) to master the Chinese phonetic system so as to be able to speak
Chinese with correct pronunciation and intonation, (b) to understand the basic
Chinese grammatical concepts so as to monitor your own Chinese language
production, (c) to be aware of some of aspects of Chinese culture imbedded in
the Chinese language, and (d) to know the structures of Chinese characters so
that you are able to recognize and write approximately 200 Chinese characters.
Exercises on-line:
Chinese Phonetics
Chinese Character Writing Sheets (Go to “Study files” for writing sheets with grid lines)
Digitized Recordings for PCR Book I at LRC
(Get the user ID and password from your teacher)
Text Recordings
Study files for the courses (including PDF
files for vocabulary, writing sheets with grid lines, example sentences,
dictation sentences, grammar notes, mp3 files, etc.)
CHN 002 Course
Objectives: 1. Based
on what you learned in CHN 001, CHN 002 will continue to help you to acquire
the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing), so that
you can communicate accurately and appropriately in simple Chinese for common
everyday purposes such as buying something, serving a customer, making an
invitation, making an appointment, offering congratulations, asking for one's
age, asking for opinions from others, presenting a gift, asking the way, making
a telephone call, refusing politely, shopping, entertaining a guest, asking for
information, complimenting, exchanging amenities, making a plan, asking for
permission, welcoming a guest, waiting for someone, proposing a toast (if you
are above 21 years old), confirming something, talking about ball games, seeing
someone off, traveling, and buying tickets.
2. To help you get fully ready for
the second year Chinese. We will help you (a) to speak Chinese with correct
pronunciation and intonation by practicing reading aloud and by getting to know
more about the sense group stress and the sentence tunes in Chinese, (b) to
understand more about the basic Chinese grammatical concepts so that you can
monitor your own Chinese language production better, (c) to be aware of many
aspects of Chinese culture imbedded in the Chinese language, (d) to know better
the structures of Chinese characters and their meanings so that you can
recognize and write approximately another 250 Chinese characters (in addition
to 200 learned in CHN 001), and (e) to learn how to look up a unknown Chinese
word or character in a Chinese dictionary.
Exercises on-line:
Chinese Character Writing Sheets (Go to “Study files” for writing sheets with grid lines)
Digitized Recordings for PCR Book I at LRC
(Get the user ID and password from your teacher)
Study files for the courses (including PDF
files for vocabulary, writing sheets with grid lines, example sentences, dictation
sentences, grammar notes, mp3 files, etc.)
CHN 051/CHN 052 These two course (CHN 052
is the continuation of CHN 051) are designed to help students who have
completed one year of college level training in Chinese (i.e., CHN 001 and CHN
002) to develop their knowledge of spoken and written Chinese and to assist
them in gaining a proficiency in using the knowledge in real life situation.
Listening, speaking, writing, and reading comprehension are all emphasized in
the courses. By the end of the semester, students are expected to have mastered
another 500 Chinese characters in addition to the 500 chracters learned in CHN
001 and CHN 002, have a good knowledge of the basic Chinese grammar concepts,
have acquired practical language skills that they can apply to a variety of
everyday situations.
Course Objectives:
The intent of these courses is to enable students to
accomplish the following goals:
1. To be able to express, explain, and describe facts, emotions, ideas, and
situations with appropriate vocabulary, sentence patterns, and grammar
2. To be able to participate in casual conversation with native speakers
3. To be able to write short essays in Chinese on subjects related to daily
life
4. To be able to understand some aspects of Chinese culture
5. To be prepared to study in
Exercises
on-line:
Chinese Character Writing Sheets (Go to “Study files” for writing sheets with grid lines)
Digitized Recordings for PCR Book II at
LRC (Get the user ID and password from
your teacher)
Presentation and study files for the
courses (including PDF files for vocabulary, example
sentences, dictation sentences, grammar notes, writing sheets with grid lines,
etc.)
CHN 101/CHN 102 These courses are designed
for students who have completed two years of college-level training in Chinese
(i.e., CHN 001, CHN 002, CHN 051, and CHN 052). They aim at helping students to
develop their ability to comprehend and produce paragraph-level Chinese. They
seek to enable students to understand face-to-face conversations on most
familiar topics in their daily life, give factual accounts, read materials
written in relatively formal style, and write simples essays, reports, and all
types of correspondence. Authentic reading and listening materials including
those from the Internet are used. The courses are conducted entirely in
Mandarin Chinese.
Digitized Recordings for PCR Book III at
LRC (Get the user ID and password from
your teacher)
Study files for the courses (including
e-texts and mp3 files for each lesson)
Conversational Chinese for Beginners |
CHN 095 (Fundamentals of Chinese Characters) This is an introductory course on Chinese characters. It helps
students without any Chinese language background to understand the structure
and meaning of the most commonly used Chinese characters. Students learn
229 most basic Chinese characters and components that form hundreds and
thousands of other Chinese characters and words.
Presentation and study files for the course (including PDF
files for graphics, characters, writing sheets)
CHN 095 (Conversational Chinese for
Beginners) This is an elementary Chinese
course specially designed for beginners with an emphasis on developing minimum
communicative competence in Chinese. Topics and language functions include
greeting, introducing, expressing gratitude, apologizing, making phone calls,
asking for and telling time and location, shopping, offering and making a
choice, and asking for and giving directions. Students learn about 80 basic
Chinese sentences, consisting of about 350 words and expressions and 30 grammar
points.
Online
multimedia materials for CHIN 095
CHN 096 (Conversational Chinese for
Beginners) This is continuation of CHN 095. It helps students to further develop
their communicative competence in Chinese. Students learn another 80 basic
Chinese sentences which include 450 words and expressions and 40 grammar
points. This course enables students to communicate in daily life with Chinese
speakers and study, work, and travel in Chinese without depending much on an
interpreter.
CHN 096 (Introductory Chinese for
Travelers)
This is a one-credit elementary Chinese course specially designed for
people who have no Chinese language background but will soon travel to
mp3 files for the course
Advanced Chinese
Conversation & Composition |
CHN 201 This
course is designed for students who have completed three years of college-level
training in Chinese (i.e., CHN 001/002, CHN 051/052, and CHN 101/102) to
improve speaking and writing proficiency in Chinese. Students present, explain,
and argue for their viewpoints orally and in written compositions after reading
selected original Chinese source materials on contemporary Chinese society.
Digitized Recordings for PCR Book IV at
LRC (Get the user ID and password from
your teacher)
Study files for the courses (including
e-texts and mp3 files for each lesson)
CHN 202 This is
continuation of CHN 201, and it is also designed for students who have had
three and half years of college-level training in Chinese. This course seeks to
provide students ample opportunities to sharpen their debating skills in
Chinese.
Digitized Recordings for PCR Book IV at
LRC (Get the user ID and password from
your teacher)
Study files for the courses (including
e-texts and mp3 files for each lesson)
Comments
and suggestions are welcome.
Copyright © 1997 Chinese Language Program. All rights reserved.
Created: November 14, 1997
Last revised: May 15, 2006