Caryn Rossi

Introductory Chinese is designed to provide students with the fundamentals for learning to understand, speak, and begin to read and write Mandarin Chinese. The course focuses on developing accurate pronunciation and tones, learning to understand the spoken language in context and developing a foundation of basic sentence patterns, questions and every day vocabulary. The writing system (radicals and stroke order) is introduced and computers are used to help students develop their character recognition skills. The course is proficiency-based and the focus is on the development of aural and oral skills. Class is conducted entirely in Chinese by the third trimester.