
Learn advanced Mandarin Chinese in one month through an immersive college curriculum, featuring teacher-student interaction, vocabulary, grammar, and debate on social topics with interactive exercises.
This lecture teaches and practices the vocabulary and grammar of lesson 29 dialogue 1.
Imitate as closely as possible my pronunciation as you read after me
and memorize the sound, meaning and usage of vocabulary (not written
form yet), (you may pause the slide to ensure you memorize them) so that
in the very next page you can do oral exercises with these learned
vocabularies out of memory. Make sure do each oral exercise on your own
before I provide the correcting answer.
This lecture is on text practice: I will at first explain the text sentence by sentence, and then you will read the text after me twice, sentence by sentence, to ensure the accuracy of your pronunciation, for the third time just listen to my reading and answer question about the text (better not look at the text), and then listen to my correcting answer.
This is an acting video of lesson 29 dialogue 1. Enjoy, practice
listening comprehension with it, and you can also repeat after the
sentences.
Same approach of instruction and practice as the corresponding sections of description in lesson 29 dialogue 1.
Explore whether college students should take part-time jobs, weighing tuition, living expenses, and parental income, and learn how work can affect grades, scholarships, and loan considerations.
Explore how Chinese and American approaches to children's education shape parental expectations, time management, and pressure, with examples of study abroad and family dynamics in the text.
Engage with lesson 30 dialogue 1 acting video from college Mandarin Chinese on your own advanced level 1 to practice Mandarin dialogue through a guided acting scenario.
Compare Chinese emphasis on practical majors and job prospects with American focus on personal hobbies, social skills, and independent living, highlighting free choice.
Practice advanced Mandarin with lesson 30 dialogue 2 acting video, featuring a culture committee meeting scene in Shanghai and a traditional family show to develop speaking and comprehension.
Cover 30 vocabulary and grammar points, highlighting Chinese geography terms like the Yangtze River and Yellow River, coastal and inland contrasts, and start-to verb usage.
Explain Chinese geography and natural scenery, highlighting population concentrated in southeastern coastal areas, Han majority with minorities, and key provinces such as Sichuan, Shanghai, Beijing, and Yangtze and Yellow rivers.
Learn Mandarin vocabulary and grammar with geography-based practice, naming cities like Harbin, Tianjin, Guangdong, and Sichuan, and explore festivals and cultural customs.
Explore China geography and population trends, from east coastal density to western deserts, and examine economic growth, Harbin ice festival, special economic zones, and the asian tigers.
Master Chinese New Year vocabulary and grammar, including fortune couplets, festive greetings, and the reason-for-action structure with reduplication for emphasis.
Practice Mandarin text analysis of China, examining urbanization, private car use, pollution, housing changes, consumer culture, and the shift from state to private enterprise.
practice dialogue in mandarin through an acting video, focusing on tonal variation and expressive phrases from lesson 32 of advanced level 1.
Explore vocabulary and grammar for traditional culture and Chinese festivals, including the spring festival, lunar calendar dates, red envelope, dragon boat festival, mooncake, and greetings.
Explore major traditional Chinese festivals and the lunar calendar through text practice, featuring the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, and related vocabulary like hongbao.
Watch an acting video dialogue that explores high quality education, community needs, and cross-border negotiator dynamics through door-to-door outreach to audiences.
Explore how China has greatly changed, from wider streets and more private cars to environmental pollution, demolished old houses, and a shift from state to private enterprises amid rising unemployment.
Practice modern Mandarin Chinese through a text on China's changes, urban life, and the shift from state to private enterprises, with topics like private cars, housing, pollution, and income disparity.
Practice lesson 33 dialogue 1 through an acting video to build Mandarin speaking and listening skills at your own advanced level 1.
Practice Mandarin vocabulary and grammar by describing pictures and translating phrases, exploring tradition and modernity in architecture, food, and tourism.
Continue learning vocabulary and grammar in lesson 33, focusing on two-part phrases and emphasis. Practice translating sample sentences and exploring conditional structures like if it were not for.
practice mandarin through lesson 33 dialogue 2 acting video, focusing on dialogue delivery, acting technique, and translation guidance to model language use in advanced level 1.
Practice Mandarin vocabulary and grammar from lesson 34 through vocal repetition, picture description, and real-life usage of actions like 'make someone do something' and health terms.
Master vocabulary and grammar for health and lifestyle topics in Mandarin, covering exercise, nutrition, sleep, metabolism, disease prevention, and related translations and tests.
Explore essential vocabulary and grammar for health topics, including exercising daily, eating healthy, resting, and avoiding fast food to stay healthy, slim, and youthful.
Practice mandarin dialogue in lesson 34 by watching the acting video, enhancing performance and comprehension within the College Mandarin Chinese on your own advanced level 1 course.
College Mandarin Chinese on Your Own Advanced level 1 is a sequel to my three previously published, highly ranked courses: College Mandarin Chinese on Your Own Beginning Level and Intermediate Level 1 and 2. The beginning level of this sequence is ranked no. 1 in student review and sales in Chinese language category on Udemy, the largest paid online platform in the world. This course is the first half of advanced level Chinese, and allows you to learn in just one month a full semester's college Chinese curriculum at advanced level based on the same range of vocabulary, grammar, and discussion topics. As the other three courses, its design simulates to a great extent the teacher-student interaction in the classroom, such as found in oral exercises of answering questions, reading after the teacher, describing pictures, translation and grammar drill, etc. By using hundreds of entertaining pictures that immediately tests your application of learned language information after every slide, this course brings teaching, reviewing, testing and application of language into a quick succession simulating the cognitive mode of immersive learning of language. Therefore, it combines the benefits of classroom teaching, Rosetta Stone Chinese and online learning while avoiding their shortcomings. As the fourth sequel of language learning sequence (altogether five courses), it allows you to learn the discursive language of discussion and debate on social topics: such as whether college students should do part-time jobs, the comparison of children's education in China and in America, comparison of Chinese and American festivals, Chinese geography and tourist spots, the huge change of Chinese society since reform and open door policy, health, diet and physical exercises in China, etc. Through this course, you will learn advanced vocabulary and grammar for discussing popular social topics in China. The instructor is again me, Professor Hong Zeng, an awarding-winning professor of Chinese for 16 years at prestigious American liberal arts colleges and national universities. After this course, you will be fully ready to study advanced Chinese 2, the last course in this language sequence.