Whatever your reason, you will find a friendly welcome at the Institute, and classes which will quickly help to improve your language skills.
They can be taken for credit or not-for-credit. Modules with 44 taught classsroom hours are worth 15 credits, those with 88 taught classroom hours are worth 30 credits. Check your level.
Registration is now open for Chinese Mandarin courses starting in September 2023.
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Courses for 2023/2024
Chinese Language and Culture 1a (one weekly session over 2 semesters)
Chinese Language and Culture 1a (two weekly sessions, semester 1 only)
Chinese Language and Culture 1a (two weekly sessions, semester 2 only)
Chinese Language and Culture 1 (two weekly sessions over 2 semesters)
Chinese Language and Culture 1b (one weekly session over 2 semesters)
Chinese Language and Culture 1b (two weekly sessions, semester 2 only)
Chinese Language and Culture 2a (two weekly sessions, semester 1 only)
Chinese Language and Culture 2 (two weekly sessions over 2 semesters)
Chinese Language and Culture 2b (one weekly session over 2 semesters)
Chinese Language and Culture 2b (two weekly sessions, semester 2 only)
Chinese Language and Culture 3a (one weekly session over 2 semesters)
Chinese Language and Culture 3a (two weekly sessions, semester 1 only)
Chinese Language and Culture 3 (two weekly sessions over 2 semesters)
Chinese Language and Culture 3b (two weekly sessions, semester 2 only)
Chinese Language and Culture 4a (one weekly session over 2 semesters)
Please note that in some cases there may be changes to days/times or venue prior to the start of teaching. Any changes will be updated on this website.
Bespoke Chinese Language and Culture courses
The Confucius Institute is happy to work with you to develop courses that suit your needs, and to offer them at a time, and over a period, that works for you.
We can offer Chinese for Specific Purposes, such as Chinese for Visiting Academics, and offer courses as intensive, semi-intensive, or extensive programmes.
Please contact The Confucius Institute for more information.
You can now register for classes for 2023/24. Teaching starts in the week of the 25th of September 2023. Applications for Semester 1 and full year modules will stay open until Friday 6 October, but please send your application by Friday the 22nd so you can attend from Week 1. Please note that if you apply close to the first class you may not receive a response in advance, but you are advised to still attend class and let the teacher know that your registration is pending. Semester 1 runs from week commencing 25 September 2023 to week ending 15 December 2023, with a Study Week (no lessons) in the week of 6-10 November 2023.
If you’re a Queen Mary student, you can take a language module for credit if this fits with your programme regulations and is approved by your home school.
If you would like to study a language alongside your degree programme, or you are not a Queen Mary student, you can register for the non-credit bearing version of a module. Registration is now open via our online application form. If you take a language not for credit, you need to pay the tuition fee (early bird rate if you apply before Wednesday 6th of September, 9 am), or apply to your home School for funding.
For non-credit bearing languages modules in 2023/24:
Fees for QMUL students who take the module as an extracurricular module (not for credit), for staff, and for members of the public:
Year-long standard module (two semesters, 22 weeks, 2 hrs per week): £355
One-semester intensive module (11 weeks, 4 hrs per week): £355
Year-long intensive module (two semesters, 22 weeks, 4 hrs per week): £710
Please note: you will not be fully enrolled until you have paid your course fees.
The course will consist of the following units:
1 Personal Information
2 Food and Drink
3 Finding your way- Travel and tourism
4 Accommodation
5 The working day and leisure
6 Describing
7 Shopping
8 Expressing likes and dislikes
9 The future
SPEAKING:
LISTENING:
READING:
WRITING:
1 Work and Career
2 Transport
3 Health
4 Problems
5 The past
6 Autobiographies
SPEAKING.
LISTENING
READING
WRITING
1 Professional and business introductions
2 Work and Career
3 The future and the conditional
4 Advice, prohibitions
5 Description in the past
6 Narrating
7 Opinions
SPEAKING
1 Revision
2 Narrating: the news
3 Instructions
4 Advice
5 Likes and dislikes
6 Wishes
7 Doubt and Possibility
1. Take part in and initiate free conversation and discussion with fluency and accuracy on a variety of more abstract topics.
2. Use a wide range of vocabulary and structures to express opinions and feelings.
3. Speak fluently and accurately with good pronunciation in various registers.
1. Understand a wide range of concrete and abstract language and a variety of accents.
2. Understand, summarize and report on concrete and abstract subjects expressing opinions and feelings.
1. Understand long texts which express opinions, ideas and feelings (opinion articles, extracts from books etc.)
2. Read independently a variety of texts.
1. Write about concrete and abstract subjects arguing different points of view and expressing feelings.
2. Write more accurately and using a variety of structures.
Suggested topics:
1 Receiving visitors from the TL countries
2 Study abroad
3 Jobs
4 The Media. Advertising
5 The environment
Suggested topics
1 A professional visit abroad
2 Meetings and negotiations
3 Transport
4 The world of communications.
5 Urban infrastructure.
6 Business profile
7 Manufacturing and change
Mandarin Chinese level IVa. 150 hours of study, of which 44 hours are classroom based and 106 are guided independent study. Syllabus of Mandarin Chinese IVa [PDF 479KB]