Course Overview:

This Mandarin 4 live online course is designed to help students continue to enlarge their Mandarin vocabulary to about 1,200 words, build their Mandarin grammar structures, understand Mandarin texts with a variety of topics and themes, and have decent knowledge of some Chinese culture and history.  After this course, students should be able to start holding conversations in Mandarin smoothly, and to discuss complicated topics in paragraphs, such as daily life, work, and social and cultural-related topics. Knowledge of how to use common communication strategies and having a good understanding of

cross-cultural communication skills will be built.  The central themes of the course are Chinese traditional holidays, Chinese history, art and music, crime in China, scientific development and inventions, Chinese healthcare and medical system, Chinese gods and goddesses, and money

management and investment.