Prerequisites
Your knowledge should correspond to levels B1 to B2 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
Goals
Upon completion of the course, you should have improved your speaking skills and become more confident in expressing yourself on familiar everyday topics.
Course Content
In our conversation courses, you will work with role-playing, dialogues, and discussions. The other participants are an important resource in your language studies. Language is a means of communication! Therefore, it is important to have opportunities to communicate with others. You will expand your vocabulary and also receive help with challenging grammar sections.
Course Structure
The instruction is conducted in Mandarin Chinese with English as the support language, focusing on oral communication in the target language, Mandarin Chinese. We base our lessons on practical situations and work with pair and group exercises, listening comprehension exercises, and conversation. You are expected to be active during the lessons and have ample opportunities to influence the course content and structure. Expect a few hours of homework between class sessions. Maximum 10 participants.
Teacher
Your teacher has Mandarin as their first language and is an experience Chinese as a second language teacher.
Course Materials
The course uses modern course literature that focuses on reading, listening, writing and speaking. You will receive further information about the course literature with the start notice you will receive one week ahead of start. The course literature is not included in the fee.
Dates
The course runs for 7 weeks and starts on Saturday, April 12th with a 1,5-hour lesson online each week. The last online class takes place on May 31st.
Note! No lesson in week 16 because of the Easter holiday.
Important Booking Information
The last day to register is one week before the course starts. Although it is possible to register after this date, we need a minimum number of participants to run the course. So make sure to register a week before the start date to ensure the course takes place. Payment is required at the time of booking. If you have a foreign bank card, please contact the language department to request an invoice instead.
Questions?
Do you need a different setup? Contact our language department:
sprak.umea@folkuniversitetet.se
Kursledare
Jennifer Feng Gao
Learning Chinese is not just learning the language, but also how Chinese people think, live, and love.
I am Jennifer from Beijing. As a Mandarin Chinese teacher, I very much enjoy answering all kinds of questions from my students about China. It is fun to talk about the language, culture, food, history, geography, or just anything strange or funny. All those questions make the students better understand China, Chinese people, as well as the language.
I started to work as a full-time teacher in 2015, and before I moved to Sweden, I had taught over 150 students from more than 30 countries. And now I also enjoy teaching my mother language in a new country, and to share the great Chinese culture here in Sweden.
My university major was law. Photography is the hobby I love the most. I also play the Chinese instrument pipa. I believe that all the things you learned would help you to find a new way to think of your life, probably a new language too!
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