Adult JinSi 成人靜思班

Structure of the Teaching Materials - Let's Learn Mandarin Textbook:  

i. Textbooks: Volume 1 includes 10 lessons.

1. Volume 1 contains 223 new words and 34 grammars.

2. Text: displays dialogue in traditional character version with phonetic symbols. English texts and the texts in simplified characters are in the appendix.

3. Vocabulary: includes phonetic symbols, the categories, and English translation. Volume 1 covers 200 words of level 1 and a small part of level 2; Volume 2 covers words of level 2 and a small part of level 3.

4. Grammar: The two volumes cover the grammar of level 1 and level 2. Each lesson contains 3 to 4 grammars.

5. Classroom activities: Each lesson includes 4 to 5 items such as characters, words, recognizing, writing, and task-based activities. 

6. Each lesson in Volume 1 includes pronunciation exercises to help learners familiarize with phonetic symbols and accurate pronunciation. 

7. Culture Notes: Volume 1 contains 3 Chinese culture notes related to the language. The first one is "Kinship Titles" placed after Lesson 3. The second one is "How Do People Greet Each Other in Taiwan" placed after Lesson 6. The third one is "Six Etymological Principles of Chinese Character" placed after Lesson 10.

8. Classroom Expression are in the front. The Vocabulary Index and the Comparative Table of Mandarin Phonetic Symbols and Hanyu Pinyin are in the appendix.

 ii. Workbooks: Volume 1 includes 10 lessons.

1. Each lesson includes 3 parts of listening exercises, such as differentiating tones, recognizing the characters/words, and sentences.

2. Reading comprehension includes text comprehension, word rearrangement and sentence comprehension.

3. Writing exercises include character writing and translating.

2024 Fall semester begins on August 4, 2024 and ends on December 1, 2024.

2025 Spring semester begins on January 5, 2025 and ends on May 11, 2025.