Mandarin Chinese Course: Beginners Level 1

Our Chinese Mandarin courses will bring you the language and culture of the people of China. We have designed our language courses focusing on the students who wish to learn the Chinese language and communicate with the people in China effectively.

Learning to speak the most popular Asian language, Chinese Mandarin, is surprisingly easier than learning European languages. This Asian language has no subject or verb agreements, no plurals, no tenses, a simple numbering system and many more features that make teaching and learning Mandarin Chinese in a short period easy. Understandably, writing Chinese Mandarin characters seem intimidating at first. However, learning the design system in small group classes and with a native Mandarin speaker teacher will make what appears to be a difficult skill easy.

Enrol in our online Mandarin Chinese language courses for beginners and start your fascinating journey of learning this simplified Chinese language in Sydney.

Please note, our Mandarin Chinese courses are delivered online via Zoom.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this Mandarin Chinese beginners course, you should have enhanced your career prospects by:

• Understand the difference between the Pinyin System & Written (Chinese characters) System

• Hear and pronounce the different tones used in Mandarin Chinese

• Communicate using basic sentence structure and questions, including greeting people, introducing yourself and others, names, country of origin, “how are you?”, etc.

• Understand two main negative adverbs

• Know how to indicate a possessive relationship to show ownership and belonging

• Learn new words in Chinese

• Understand the most used measure words and how they work

• Say the numbers, including phone numbers and age

• Say the time, days of the week and months of the year

• Understand and practise the difference between formal and familiar speech

• Learn primary Chinese characters, basic Chinese vocabulary and sentence structures

• Gain knowledge about the Chinese culture