Foundation Course 

Our foundation course is suitable for anyone who is a complete beginner and wants to start learning Chinese.

This will be a great starting point for complete beginners and a great refresher for those who are rusty and looking to brush up on their Chinese basics before going into a high level course.

You will learn:

• Basic Chinese vocabulary

• General Chinese expressions

• Pronunciation (Pinyin and tones)

• Basic Chinese reading and writing

• Useful communication techniques

• Chinese culture, social and business etiquette

and more!

You will receive:

• Learning materials and worksheets

• A completion certificate

• Free consultation hours (book in advance)

• Free transfer to another class (same level or different level)

• Snacks and water in class

  and more!

More class details see below.

Course Objectives

Students Learn about:

• The Chinese PinYin System (vowels, consonants etc.)

• The four (five) tones in Chinese

• The modal particles in Chinese (e.g. a, la, ya, ne…)

• The Chinese pictographs

• The strokes and the stroke order

• Radicals and components

• Parts of speech

• Basic word order and sentence structures

• Sentence types

• Interrogative construction

• Punctuations

  and more…

Students Learn to:

• read and write PinYin for Chinese characters

• distinguish different vowels, consonants, and tones (and pronounce Chinese like a pro)

• understand the use of modal particles

• use modal particles in sentences

• read and write Chinese pictographs

• write Chinese characters through the correct stroke order

• recognise different sentence types

• construct statements and questions

• use punctuations correctly

  and more…

Sample Lesson structure

Lesson

Teacher does:

Overview of the lesson (written on board)

1. Self-introduction in both Chinese and English

2. Breakdown of the self-introduction and introduce simple sentence structures

3. Introduction of the PinYin system and tones

4. Introduction of Chinese pictographs

5. Introduction of strokes and stroke order

6. Introduction of radicals and components

7. Introduction of sentence types and sentence structures

…

Students will:

1. Listen to the teacher’s Chinese self-introduction and try to guess the English meaning

2. Use the simple sentence structures to construct a basic self-introduction in Chinese

3. Use their new knowledge of the PinYin system and tones to improve their pronunciation in their self-introduction

4. Find the pictographs used in the teacher’s self-introduction

5. Learn to write these pictographs using the correct strokes and stroke order

6. Use their new knowledge of radical and components to write the other characters in the self-introduction

7. Learn a sentence structure and start to use it to create new sentences.

…

(Attend a lesson to find out more!)