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

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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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.

After completing Level 2, students should be able to converse with greater ease about topics including sports, meeting people, family members, etc. Chinese characters including strokes, stroke order and radicals will be introduced. Students will practice on character writing and character recognition.

Upon completion of this course, students can expect to read text based on the recognition of characters. They will comprehend more complex sentences. Students will make dialogues on the topics including age, shopping, etc. Grammar learned in this level includes: verb + object; tag questions, prepositional phrases, etc.

In the advanced level, students will be given more time to make daily conversation based on the text. The students will be able to talk about learning Chinese, seeing a doctor, making appointments, etc. Grammar includes: measure words, to have, expressions of desire and necessity, adverbial modifiers, etc.