"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 020 | CHN 051/052 |
CHN 101/102 | CHN 201/202 | CHN 095/096
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 020 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 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)
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)
Conversational
Chinese for Beginners |
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
Created: November 14, 1997