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Mandarin Chinese in Motion: Essay-Writing Skills 

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Overview

Improve your knowledge of Mandarin Chinese grammar, vocabulary, and sentence structures to write confident and convincing essays.

Duration

4 weeks

Total fee

2,093

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

Mandarin Chinese in Motion: Essay-Writing Skills
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Mandarin Chinese in Motion: Essay-Writing Skills
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Highlights

  • Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
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Mandarin Chinese in Motion: Essay-Writing Skills
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Course details

Skills you will learn
More about this course
  • Are you gearing up to write your first essay in Mandarin Chinese? Dont panic!
  • This four-week crash course from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University will give you the skills, knowledge, and vocabulary you need to ace essay-writing in Chinese.
  • Before you begin practising writing, you need to refresh your knowledge of essential grammar and sentence structures.
  • You will start the course with an overview of standard word order and sentence patterns to get your brain thinking in Chinese mode.
  • After this introduction, its time to get stuck into some writing. In Weeks 3 and 4 of the course, you will write one short narrative excercise and one longer essay, giving you a chance to put your new writing skills into practice.
  • Throughout the course, you will get tailored guidance from your course leaders to ensure you have the understanding and tools you need to keep practising in your own time. You will finish the course feeling confident and ready to get stuck into your first Chinese essay.
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Mandarin Chinese in Motion: Essay-Writing Skills
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Curriculum

Write your first Chinese sentence

Welcome to the course

Basic Chinese sentence patterns

Word order

Write a breif self introduction

Write your sencond Chinese sentence

Coordinating conjunction words 1

Coordinating conjunction words 2

Write a short message!

Write your first Chinese essay

How to describe people, places and things?

Key Chinese grammar structure - modifiers

Write a narrative essay

Write your second Chinese essay

How to Express Tenses in Chinese?

Talking about the present, future and past

Write a Longer Essay - An Unforgettable Day

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