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Targeted at beginners, this course enables students to rapidly acquire the basic elements of the standard Chinese language (also known as Mandarin Chinese) and to communicate in a simple but effective language in China and wherever else this language is spoken.

Objective: Master the basic elements of grammar; learn everyday vocabulary (600 words) and basic characters (400); understand a simple text (audio/video) and write everyday texts.

Content: Intensive grammar exercises, with emphasis on sentence structure. Vocabulary learning through the study of everyday situations. Introduction to Chinese writing, etymological analysis of characters and rewriting exercises. Intensive work on pronunciation and listening to simple texts on phoneme and tone discrimination. Reading adapted texts and writing simple texts of 150 to 200 characters.


Bibliography

L’écriture chinoise, Viviane Alleton, Paris, PUF, 1997.
Initiation à la syntaxe chinoise, XU Dan, Paris, Asiathèque, 1996.
Grammaire de chinois pratique, Li Dejin, Cheng Meizhen, Sinolingua, 1995.
A new perspective : context, function, and structure in teaching Chinese, Li Xiao Qi et al., Presses de l’Université de Pékin, 1995.  
C'est du Chinois ! Monique Hoa, You-Feng, Paris, 2002  
Xinhua Dictionnary with English translation , Beijing , The commercial press, 2002.
China Panorama: Approaching Chinese , Lu Bisong, Beijing, Language and Culture Press, 2001.
Méthode de chinois premier niveau, Isabelle Rabut, Wu Yongyi et Liu Hong, Paris, Asiathèque, 2003.

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