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Tsinghua Chinese: Start Talking with 1.3 Billion People
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 6 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
- Colloquial Mandarin vocabulary used in daily life
- Highly practical expressions in given Mandarin contexts
- Listening skills for communicating with Chinese native speakers
- Some basic and frequently used Chinese characters
- How to utilize the course for self-study
Prerequisite
Instructors
Xia Ding
Professor, School of Humanities
Tsinghua University
Xiaoning Wang
Associate Professor, School of Humanities
Tsinghua University
Li Lu
Associate Professor, School of Humanities
Tsinghua University
Yuan Li
Lecturer, School of Humanities
Tsinghua University
Editor
Tsinghua University is a Chinese university in Beijing, considered to be one of the most prestigious in the People's Republic of China. When it was founded in 1911, it was a preparatory school for students wishing to do postgraduate studies in American universities.
In 1925, Tsinghua developed into a university and now offers four-year undergraduate degrees (bachelor's degree) and graduate degrees (master's degree and doctorate).
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