Olesya
Target language: Chinese
Available materials: textbooks Задоенко (“начальный курс, часть 2, часть 3), Boya Chinese 2; apps –
trainchinese, pleco; youtube: Easy Mandarin series
Wants: to watch TV shows, play Genshin Impact, read contemporary novels
Needs: pass the exams
Learning experience:
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writing a2
speaking a1
listening a1
reading a2
goals:
writing: learn HSK 4 hieroglyphs
speaking: to be able to talk to native speakers when travelling (survival Chinese, finding a way, shopping,
immediate surroundings)
listening: to understand spoken speech on the topics of the course
reading: to be able to read light novels, simple articles about culture, history
Curriculum
Date
Topics
December
Revision before the exam
Main topics: Shopping, My House, Travelling, Chinese Cuisine
Grammar points: Qualitative adjectives
and their comparative forms, Nouns and
counting words, Prepositions,
Subjectless Sentences; Numbers;
Interrogative and Imperative Sentences
February
Writing: HSK 2 hieroglyphs
Road to B1
Main topics: Feelings and People’s
Personalities; expressing emotions
Grammar points: Compound Verbs,
Motion verbs; Function words; Adverbs
March
April
Main topics: sports and active lifestyle;
industrialization in China
Grammar points: Object (direction of
movement; final destination, general
distance); Negation in sentences
Main topics: Family and traditional
values in China;
Grammar points: Compound sentences
(reasoning); Verbs of motion; Directions;
Modal verbs
May
Main topics: Health and Body; Going to
the Hospital
Grammar points: Expressing future;
passive voice; features of colloquial vs
written speech