Elementary Chinese 2

Overview

This elementary level course builds on your language development, including learning to describe the past, talk about feelings and opinions, and form superlatives such as ‘most’. You should have either completed Elementary Chinese 1 (LGXC004) or have learned Chinese up to the required level elsewhere. The Elementary Chinese 2 online course at The Open University UK has no formal assessment, but you will test your knowledge by completing a quiz at the end of each unit. All the audio materials are accompanied by transcripts. The quiz questions and answers, glossary of the key vocabulary, as well as most audio clips, are downloadable.

This course teaches Mandarin Chinese and simplified characters.

After successfully completing this short course, you will receive a digital badge. This can be shared on social media, added to email signatures or act as a certificate.

You will learn

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• communicate with speakers of Chinese in a limited range of predictable and simple contexts relating to everyday situations
• understand and use simple Chinese grammatical structures (for example, questions and statements), and common terms for everyday objects and events
• recognise and use basic Chinese phrases in formal and informal styles of communication and use polite forms of address and greetings
• write in Pinyin and/or character forms frequently used expressions relevant to the topics covered
• show basic intercultural communicative competence, including an awareness of Chinese-speaking cultures and societies.