Mandarin

The Mandarin courses are divided into three terms: Autumn, Spring and Summer. Pupils will be working towards gaining an ASSET language certificate by the end of the year.  Find out more at: http://www.assetlanguages.org.uk/
Pupils can join at any point during the year but should be aware that the class will have already completed one or two terms of study and therefore may have to do some self directed learning at home in order to catch up.
At the moment the Mandarin classes for adults are aimed purely at beginners and classes will mostly focus on oral skills with some reading and written work.

For further information please feel free to contact the course tutor, Janet Williams, via email: janet@hpwilliams.f2s.com

New learners could prepare themselves for the course by:
 
1) Learning using interactive and fun BBC Real Chinese website, especially practising the tones. http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/real_chinese/
 
2) Using the course text book and focusing on greetings, introduction, ordering food and drinks, and talking about location.  

The required course text book is: BBC Active: Talk Mandarin Chinese.
The book is available to order from: http://www.bbcactivelanguages.com/OurProducts/Chinese/ProductViewer.aspx?ISBN=9781406614008