Chinese school training courses in Boston, MA (public, in-house or online)

This course is an introduction to modern Mandarin pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and writing using Chinese characters and romanization. Emphasis is on conversation. Approximately 400 characters and half of the basic grammar are learned. Pinyin romanization and simplified characters are used.

All of our courses are carefully structured and designed to cover a wide range of topic areas, grammatical structures and skills. A Cactus Foreign Language Course includes the following elements:
Developing and improving your spoken language
Building your communicative confidence so you can talk with native speakers.
Developing your listening and comprehension skills to improve understanding.
Learning and reviewing the grammatical structures of the language
Focusing on langua...

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Introduces spoken Cantonese and aims to provide beginning students with a practical command of the language. Students learn to read some characters, but the emphases of this course are proper pronunciation and the development of conversational proficiency. Among the topics introduced are tonal recognition and pronunciation, simple sentence structure, interrogatives, counting and telling time. Upon completion of this course students should be able to introduce themselves, exchange greetings and c...

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Upon completion of this course, students can expect to be able to discuss a broader range of topics with greater precision and confidence. Building upon the basic foundation provided in Level One, more advanced topics are introduced including the use of comparatives and the future tense. Students can expect to improve dramatically their vocabulary through participation in structured oral activities.

Upon completion of this course, students can expect to converse in simple sentences as well as to read and write basic words. This course emphasizes oral expression and phonetics. Four tones and pronunciation will be practiced repeatedly. The Pin-Yin spelling system will be introduced and drills will help students master the correct intonation. Topics include: greetings, identifications, names and nationalities.