Beginners Chinese 1 The Open University UK

Overview

Through 3–4 study hours per unit you’ll learn the essentials of reading, writing, speaking and listening in Chinese through a variety of online activities. You will cover subjects including learning to say a simple ‘hello’ and talking about jobs. By the end of the course, you’ll have developed the skills needed to speak and understand simple Chinese in everyday contexts. A perfect online short course for absolute beginners!

This Beginners Chinese 1 course from The Open University UK 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

• use the romanised alphabetical system Hanyu pinyin, which is used to indicate the pronunciation of Mandarin Chinese

• learn the strokes, the stroke order, and the basic structures of Chinese characters

• recognise 50–100 of the most frequently used words in pinyin or/and characters and be able to Word-process or handwrite them.

This course is designed to help you achieve a level of language proficiency equivalent to level A1 of the Council of Europe Common European Framework of Reference for languages (CEFR).