CHIN& 221 - Chinese IV

5 CR

Reviews and expands basic, first-year Chinese skills. Increases understanding of Chinese grammar, expand vocabulary, and improves productive and receptive language skills within a cultural context. Includes both traditional and simplified characters. Increases understanding of Chinese culture.

Prerequisite(s): CHIN 123 or permission of instructor.

Course Outcomes

Engage in conversations about college life.
Acquired enough vocabulary and expressions to talk about the first day of school, moving into the dormitory, eating out at restaurants, shopping, selecting courses in college, and renting a place to live.
Demonstrate understanding of existential sentences, reduplication of verbs, resultative complements, directional complements, and various other grammatical patterns.
Demonstrate understanding of Chinese word order issues beyond those introduced in the first year.
Participate in group discussions and other types of oral projects.
Recognize 300 new characters that make up at least 500 compounded new words.
Read short stories that have simple sentence structures.
Write short essays with characters, phonetic symbols or both on various topics.

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