Description
Mandarin A1.2 Beginner Course
Start date: Tuesday, October 28 2025
Days: Tuesday & Friday
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Duration: 30 Academic Hours
Want to learn Mandarin at beginner level? Join our Mandarin A1.2 Beginner Course!
This interactive Mandarin A1.2 beginner course is perfect for learners who have a basic understanding and want to start learning Mandarin in a friendly, online group setting.
What You’ll Learn
Colloquial Chinese: Mandarin A1.2 Overview
Chapter 8: Shopping (I)
- Learn how to ask for and state the price of items
- Tell shop assistants what you want and how many
- Practice bargaining using duō shǎo (how much)
- Write and recognize additional characters and signs
Chapter 9: Shopping (II)
- Learn basic colour words and make simple comparisons
- Borrow items and ask for opinions on different things
- Write and recognize more characters
Chapter 10: At the Restaurant
- Name popular Chinese dishes and order food or drinks
- Use measure words correctly
- Talk about past experiences with guo and position adverbs with de
- Write and recognize more characters
Chapter 11: Taking a Taxi and Buying Train Tickets
- Practice phrases for taking taxis and purchasing train tickets
- Specify which train to take and make comparisons
- Use de to create sophisticated noun modifiers
- Write and recognize additional characters
Chapter 12: At the Hotel
- Inquire about hotel room availability and describe your preferences
- Use ordinal numbers and measure words accurately
- Handle common complaints and recognize more characters
Chapter 13: Making Telephone Calls
- Learn telephone-specific expressions and the shì … de structure
- Express completed actions using wán … le
- Distinguish between yī and yāo when speaking
- Write and recognize more characters
Chapter 14: Socializing
- Talk about how many times you’ve done something
- Use lái/qù and directional words like lai/qu accurately
- Ask yes/no questions to confirm guesses with le
- Express new, ongoing situations and negate with yĕ
- Recognize names of places
Chapter 15: Writing Letters to a Chinese Friend
- Write simple letters and address envelopes correctly
- Talk about past continuous actions
- Form advanced sentences like “When I was in China, I…”
