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Language Door offers small interactive Chinese classes! Please check the schedule.
For the beginning and
intermediate classes, we use "Ultimate
Chinese Basic-Intermediate" by Living Language. There is also an optional eight cassette package that accompanies the
book. For the advanced classes, we
provide handouts at no charge.
Beginning A (chapters 1-4)
Topics - Greetings, what do you do?, the family,
and nationalities.
Grammar and usage - Pronunciation, tones, words and syllables, word order,
names and titles, adjectival verbs, "to be", pronouns and possessives,
particles, direct and indirect objects, negation, question words, phrases of
location, numbers, negation, adverbial phrases of time, etc.
Beginning B (chapters 5-9)
Topics - Time, dumplings, houses, taking a taxi,
and asking for directions.
Grammar and usage - More numbers, telling time, before and after, days of
the week, dates, asking age, measure words, comparisons, giving directions,
politeness terms, etc.
Beginning C (chapters 10-14)
Topics - Chinese characters, shopping, at a
hotel, sight-seeing, and at a restaurant.
Grammar and usage - Describing an action, estimating numbers, more measure
words, money and prices, the particle "le", relative clauses, completed
action, ordering food, resultative verbs of completion, etc.
Beginning D (chapters 15-19)
Topics - There's been a robbery!, a wedding, the
telephone, at the bank, and at the post office.
Grammar and usage - Resultative verbs of direction, resultative verbs of
perception, reduplication of measure words, current actions, interest,
ratios, "to be wrong", "to give", methods of mailing, "to be able to", etc.
Intermediate A (chapters 20-24)
Topics - Sports, an appointment, habits, music,
and spring festival.
Grammar and usage - Again, additional particle "le", various idiomatic
expressions, potential resultative verbs, easy and difficult, talking about
years, "every", summary of resultative verbs, etc.
Intermediate B (chapters 25-29)
Topics - Computers, museums, at the airport,
giving gifts, and the concept of face.
Grammar and usage - "Why" and "because", "to know", various conjunctions,
describing an action, verb reduplication, exclamations, causative sentences,
negative suggestions, etc.
Intermediate C (chapters 30-34)
Topics - Visiting a doctor, medicine, holidays,
the body, and climate.
Grammar and usage - Passive sentences, various expressions and
constructions, multiple negatives, "more and more", compass points, etc.
Intermediate D (chapters 35-40)
Topics - Clothes, a trip to the park, giving
descriptions, education, talking about the future, and a banquet.
Grammar and usage - Resultative verbs with long descriptive phrases, more
expressions and idiomatic usage, reduplication of measure words, review of
the uses of "le", adding to a noun or adjective to make an adverb,
indicating future, etc.
Advanced Classes
Topics - Discussion of articles, issues,
literature, etc.
Grammar and usage - As appropriate related to conversation topics.
If you would like to discuss material covered in these levels, contact us
Feedback from Our Students
"So far, so good. Regina is very patient with our progress.
The printed dialogue sheet is a nice welcome change to exercise the lesson's new vocabulary,"
Vince.
"Having fun," Mark.
Language Description
Mandarin Chinese, spoken by approximately
885,000,000 people as their first language in the world (primarily in
China), is a subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages (e.g.
Thai). Chinese has a number of variants, such as XIAMEN (AMOY), LEIZHOU
(LEI HUA, LI HUA), CHAO-SHAN, etc. Some linguists regard them as
different languages while others believe that these are just dialects of
Chinese. Similar to the other Sino-Tibetan languages, Mandarin Chinese
is tonal, having four distinctive tones.
Further Information
For further information about Los Angeles Mandarin Chinese classes,
San Diego Mandarin Chinese classes, San Fernando Valley Mandarin Chinese classes or Orange
County Mandarin Chinese classes, please follow the links on the navigation bar on the right. Thank you!
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