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New summer course: practical Chinese

"Start Talking" (pre-intermediate)

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About this course

Themed "Start Talking", this course focuses on training practical speaking, listening and improving pronounciation accruacy. The teaching style is highly engaging and interactive, consolidating your basics for any future learning.

Who is this for?

  • Anyone who has mastered about 200 to 300 words. Open to university students or working professionals
  • LSE CIBL students who have completed Beginner 2 or 3 (12-week short course)
  • LSE Language Centre students who have completed Beginner/Level 1 (LN711)

Key facts

key facts
Level

Pre-intermediate
Duration 

10 weeks
Start date

22 May 2019
Payment deadline

13 May 2019
Day

Wednesday
Time

18:30 - 20:30
Programme fee

£300 (all non-LSE applicants) / £175 (LSE students)
Location

LSE campus (room to be released)

Course objectives
  • To enable you to use your basic vocabulary
  • To improve your listening and speaking (especially speaking fluency)
  • To improve your pronunciation accuracy
  • To consolidate your basics and prepare you for future learning

How to apply (non-LSE applicants)

  • Follow the rest of the online instructions to complete the process

  • Forward the automatically generated payment confirmation form together with your course code “19SBEG” as your email subject  to confucius.business@lse.ac.uk

How to apply (LSE students)

  • Forward the automatically generated payment confirmation form together with your course code “19SBEG” as your email subject  to confucius.business@lse.ac.uk

Reference book

Reference textbook: "Mastering Chinese" by Catherine Hua Xiang, 2010, Palgrave Macmillan (with two CDs, ISBN 9781352001365)

*You will have printed handouts each week based on the content of each session. It is not mandatory to purchase these textbooks but you are welcome to for your own reference.

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