Topics include: personal identification; describing home and family life; education and work; leisure, holidays, and travel; courteous expressions and their appropriate use; interacting in social and work environments; giving opinions, agreeing and disagreeing; expressing comparison and similarity; polite requests and offers; expressing satisfaction and dissatisfaction, as well as giving reasons; describing location and surroundings; talking about the weather; talking about environmental protection; making encouraging and positive remarks; describing personal attributes and qualities; entertainment; emergency situations; special Chinese occasions; and Chinese etiquette.
By the end of the course, you will be able to communicate confidently in Mandarin, using the appropriate level of language, for most social and work related aspects of your daily life.
