110-035 Standard Chinese 1A

Some knowledge of a Chinese dialect. New students may not enrol unless they have attended an interview and/or placement test in the week preceding the first week of semester.

Students must be concurrently enrolled in 110-120 Standard Spoken Chinese 1A.

This subject is an accelerated course for students who speak a dialect of Chinese but who cannot read or write Chinese characters or speak Mandarin. By the conclusion of this subject students should have reached approximately the same level as 110-025 Introductory Chinese 1B. They should be able to speak with acceptable standard pronunciation and read and write at least 600 characters, and write essays.

Class participation, a 2-hour examination, a 20-minute listening/comprehension test, a 5-minute oral test, and weekly assignments and written tests totalling 1000 words.

• Yan Defeng et al, Meeting China (Chu Ji Ben). Beijing University Press, 1997.