Lesson 1 Topics (T stands for Topic) This lesson serves to give the student an introduction to Chinese language and the tones.
T1 – Understand the nature of Chinese Language
T2 – Why Pinyin (Spelling Sound)
T3 – Learn the Four Tones
T4 – How to use Pinyin effectively
Lesson 2 Topics Lesson Two is a practicum-oriented topic as the student has to go through 30 topic videos and 53 quizzes before he/she can proceed to Lesson Three. The student is taught the traditional method of pronunciation and an alternative for those who prefer English-like pronunciation.
T1 – English Proxy Sound Method for learning initials (An Alternative to Pinyin)
T2 – Pinyin
T3 – Practice
Lesson 3 Topics From this lesson onwards, the student will start to apply what they have learnt in Lessons 1-2. Simple Chinese grammar is also taught. The student is expected to say simple sentences like “I am a American”, “I am tall” etc.
T1 – Vocabulary
T2 – Basic word order (subject-verb-object)
T3 – to be (shì)
T4 – Adjectival verb
T5 – yes-no question (ma)
T6 – yes-no question (verb-not-verb)
T7– Implied comparison
T8 – Omitting known information
T9 – Dialogue Practices
List of Chinese Characters The student will also receive the list of Chinese Characters used in the BCMIP1 and BCMIP2 courses. You can view a snapshot here. The audio files for dialogue practice will also be provided.
Lesson 1 Topics Student will learn how to introduce himself/herself in this lesson. He/she will also learn how to pronounce numbers from one to ninety-nine.
T1 – Vocabulary
T2 – Classifiers
T3 – Demonstrative Pronouns (this, that)
T4 – Numbers I (one to ninety-nine)
T5 – Possession (de)
T6 – Tag Questions
T7 – Naming in Mandarin/How to introduce yourself
T8 - Dialogue Practices
Course Interim Quiz
Lesson 2 Topics The topics include model verb 'can' and common adverb 'dōu". He/she will complete the lesson on numbers and know how to apply them in real life.
T1 – Vocabulary
T2 – Numbers II (Hundred bǎi, Thousand qiān, Ten Thousand wàn)
T3 – Zero (Líng)
T4 – How many?
T5 – Modal Verb ‘Can’
T6 – Common Adverb dōu (all/both)
T7 – Choice Questions (hái.shi)
T8 – Follow-up questions with ne
T9 - Dialogue Practices
Lesson 3 Topics This topic is important as it focuses on money and prices which every foreigner will need to use them in daily life when they are living in China. We will also look at numerical expressions like bàn, duō etc.
T1 – Vocabulary
T2 – Money and Prices
T3 – Unit price
T4 – Half (bàn)
T5 – Something plus (duō)
T6 – Each /Every (měi)
T7 – “Only” (zhǐ)
T8 – Must (děi, negation - bùbì)
T9 – Change in situation using le
T10 - Dialogue Practices
Lesson 4 Topics This is another essential lesson as the student will get acquainted with the calendar expressions.
T1 – Vocabulary
T2 – Year, Seasons
T3 – Months
T4 – Days of the Month and Time Ordering
T5 – Days of the Week
T6 – Parts of the day
T7 – Last, This and Next
T8 – Ordinal Numbers
T9 - Dialogue Practices
Lesson 5 Topics We will wrap up the course by looking at time expressions and colours.
T1 – Vocabulary
T2 – Clock Time
T3 – Common Time Expressions
T4 – Completion Marker le
T5 – Past/Present/Future
T6 – Before/During/After of an action/event
T7 – Verbal Duplication
T8 – Colours
T9 - Dialogue Practices
Lesson 6 Topics This is a summary lesson to highlight the important points in the course. The student will finish the course once he/she completes the Course Final Quiz.
Summary of Key Points of this course
Tips for self-learners who want to proceed further
Course Final Quiz
Lesson 1 Student will learn the below topics:
An introduction to the history of Chinese characters
11 basic Chinese strokes
How to count no. of strokes
Lesson 2 This lesson will allow the students to understand the structures of Chinese characters via a building-block approach for easier memorisation.
An introduction to Chinese characters
Understand the written rules
Learn the 13 structures for Chinese characters
Lesson 3 Students will be taught Chinese radical to aid memorisation and also how to use it as the search key in a dictionary:.
Radicals are taught in this lesson.
Learn how to use radicals to find out the meanings and pronunciations of Chinese character using a hardcopy dictionary.
An online dictionary is also taught to help students to harness useful features that are missing in the hardcopy dictionary.
Lesson 4 Student will learn the below topics:
Learn how Chinese characters were created. Such understanding will help the student to focus on certain characteristics of Chinese characters to aid memorisation.
Student will learn there are six types of Chinese characters.
Lesson 5 The topics are:
Studying some common radicals to understand how students can leverage this aspect for their learning. The method is to teach the students to use radical as a visualisation tool which will be easier to understand and thus there is no need to do rote learning.
One approach in this lesson is for the student to refer to oracle bone script of the radical which is pictorial and therefore facilitates learning.
Another approach is for the student to use his/her imagination to adapt the radical for better memorisation.