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Mandarin Chinese for BeginnersDiploma Course

Ni Hao! Welcome to Mandarin Chinese for Beginners.

After English, Mandarin Chinese is the most spoken language in the world, with an estimated one billion speakers. Learning the language opens up many exciting new opportunities for business, travel and cultural enrichment – the Mandarin Chinese for Beginners Diploma Course is here to get you started.

Throughout each module of the course, you will learn key vocabulary in both simplified characters and pinyin (the official romanisation system for Mandarin Chinese), explore concepts and grammatical structures, practice what you have learned, discover useful phrases or dialogue based on real-life scenarios, and take a multiple-choice assessment to further solidify learning. Furthermore, each of the course’s 10 modules is accompanied by an audio version to ensure accurate comprehension.

Course overview:

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12 Audio Files

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What Will You Learn?

The Mandarin Chinese for Beginners Diploma Course teaches the fundamental concepts of pronunciation, as well as the basic grammar and vocabulary needed to participate in simple daily conversations. It introduces concepts that are unique to the Chinese language, which will then provide a framework you can use to express almost anything you want.

The course also contains relatable dialogues based on real-life scenarios that will equip you with many useful phrases to help you feel comfortable in social and professional interactions. Furthermore, the course has been designed to cover the needs of tourists, whether it is to ask for directions or to order food in a restaurant.

This course:

Includes a downloadable audio version of each module (10 in total + an introduction and a conclusion)
Explains how to apply the principles of Chinese pronunciation and tones to read any Chinese pinyin
Allows you to have a basic conversation in Mandarin Chinese
Explains key vocabulary in both simplified characters and pinyin
Explores concepts and grammatical structures
Provides a “Let’s Practice” subsection following each key learning point
Ensures understanding with useful phrases or dialogue based on real-life scenarios
Tests knowledge retention with multiple-choice assessments

Who Would Benefit from This Course?

Designed for those who have had little to no interaction with Mandarin Chinese, this course will take you from absolute beginner to being comfortable reading pinyin and using a variety of sentence structures to talk about yourself, as well as to ask and answer questions.

The wide range of examples, relatable expressions and real-life dialogues included in the course will boost your confidence in having basic conversations on topics such as exchanging personal information, discussing daily arrangements and food, asking about prices, chatting about your hobbies, the weather, and more.

The content in this course is based on the first level in the Hànyǔ Shuǐpíng Kǎoshì (Chinese Proficiency Test), usually referred to as HSK, which assesses the ability of a non-native speaker to use Chinese in their daily, academic and professional life.

There are a total of six levels in HSK, with HSK Level 1 being equivalent to the A1 Level in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Modules

Module 1: Ni Hao!7 Parts

Introduction
Part 1: The Basics
Part 2: Hanyu Pinyin
Part 3: Personal Pronouns
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points Exercise
Module 1 Assessment

Module 2: My Family5 Parts

Part 1: More Personal Pronouns
Part 2: X and Y
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points Exercise
Module 2 Assessment

Module 3: Numbers and Dates6 Parts

Part 1: Numbers
Part 2: My Age
Part 3: Measure Words
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points Exercise
Module 3 Assessment

Module 4: When Exactly?6 Parts

Part 1: Days
Part 2: Time
Part 3: Expressing “Existence” and “Possession”
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points Exercise
Module 4 Assessment

Module 5: Places6 Parts

Part 1: Vocabulary
Part 2: Location with “Zai”
Part 3: Asking for Directions
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points Exercise
Module 5 Assessment

Module 6: Going Shopping7 Parts

Part 1: Vocabulary
Part 2: Expressing “Wants”
Part 3: Counting Money
Part 4: Art of Bargaining – Useful Phrases
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points Exercise
Module 6 Assessment

Module 7: Interests and Hobbies6 Parts

Part 1: Vocabulary
Part 2: Likes and Dislikes
Part 3: Actions in Progress
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points Exercise
Module 7 Assessment

Module 8: At Work and in School6 Parts

Part 1: Vocabulary
Part 2: Connecting Adjectives and Nouns
Part 3: Professional Interactions
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points Exercise
Module 8 Assessment

Module 9: Ordering Food5 Parts

Part 1: Vocabulary
Part 2: Common Courtesy
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points Exercise
Module 9 Assessment

Module 10: The Weather8 Parts

Part 1: Vocabulary
Part 2: Particle 吧 (ba)
Part 3: Asking Different Questions
Part 4: The Information Age
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points Exercise
Conclusion
Module 10 Assessment

Accreditations

The Mandarin Chinese for Beginners Diploma Course will take you up to 50 hours to complete, working from home. There is no time limit for completing this course, it can be studied in your own time at your own pace.

This is a Level 3 course and will give you 50 CPD (Continued Professional Development) points.

Upon completion of your course assessments, you receive 2 certificates. A certificate from the Centre of Excellence and a CPD certificate displaying the number of CPD points earned from the course.

This course is endorsed by the Quality Licence Scheme. Therefore, upon successful completion of this course, learners can also receive a certificate of achievement from Quality Licence Scheme and a Learner Unit Summary, which lists the details of all the units the learner has completed as part of the course. (This certificate is optional and costs an additional £25).

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The Skills and Education Group also includes two nationally recognised awarding organisations; Skills and Education Group Awards and Skills and Education Group Access. Through their awarding organisations they have developed a reputation for providing high-quality qualifications and assessments for the education and skills sector. They are committed to helping employers, organisations and learners cultivate the relevant skills for learning, skills for employment, and skills for life.

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