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 2022.
TIMETABLE
Courses for 2022/2023
LAN4085
Chinese Language and Culture 1 (Beginner)
(over 2 semesters)
2 x 2 hours per week. Times to be confirmed
26th September 2022 - 14th April 2023
88 classroom hours plus 212 hours independent study; 22 weeks
LAN4186
Chinese Language and Culture 1a (Beginner)
1 x 2 hours per week. Times to be confirmed
44 classroom hours plus 106 hours independent study; 22 weeks
LAN4086
(taught in semester 1)
26th September - 16th December 2022
44 classroom hours plus 106 hours independent study; 11 weeks
LAN4086B
(taught in semester 2)
23rd January - 14th April 2023
LAN4187
Chinese Language and Culture 1b (Elementary)
LAN4087
44 classroom hours plus 106 hours independent study; 11 weeks (Semester 2)
LAN5085
Chinese Language and Culture 2 (Lower Intermediate)
2 x 2 hours per week: Semester 1: Wed 10-12 pm and Fri 3-5 pm; Semester 2: Semester 2: Mon 2-4 pm and Fri 4-6 pm
LAN5186
Chinese Language and Culture 2a (Lower Intermediate)
1 x 2 hours per week: Thu 4-6 pm (Bancroft 3.24)
LAN5086
2 x 2 hours per week: Wed 10-12 pm and Fri 3-5 pm
LAN5187
Chinese Language and Culture 2b (Intermediate)
LAN5087
2 x 2 hours per week: Mon 2-4 pm and Fri 4-6 pm
LAN6186
Chinese Language and Culture 3a (Intermediate)
1 x 2 hours per week: Mon 10-12 (Bancroft 3.23)
LAN6196
Chinese Language and Culture 4a (Advanced)
1 x 2 hours per week: Tue 9-11 am (Bancroft 2.07)
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.
Tuition Fees for 2022/2023
To register for a non-credit bearing module, fill in the online application form. Apply before 6 September 2022 to benefit from the early bird discount. You will be able to change or cancel your registration if it turns out the module does not fit into your timetable. An online information session for Mandarin Chinese (in which you'll be able to check your level if you're unsure) will be offered in early September.
Registration
Please note: you will not be fully enrolled until you have paid your course fees.
Check out our timetable and dates and fees
Apply for your course
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]