Intermediate Chinese I

PREREQUISITES: TEST SCORE GREATER OR EQUAL 3302.03, EAST-UA 202,OR EAST-UA 9202, OR CHIN-SHU 102 OR, CHIN-SHU 102S, AND CHIN-SHU 102S2

PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 202, 9202, OR EQUIVALENT. To better assist with your placement, please review this information: 1. For students who have started their language learning outside of NYU, please take the placement test before registering. (https://www.nyu.edu/cas/flpexam/login.html). 2. if you can speak in Mandarin Chinese about matters related to everyday life situations but can not read and write at the same level, you should enroll in EAST-UA 232 Intermediate Chinese for Advanced Beginners. 3. If you need a permission code to register, please contact the course instructor. If an instructor is not listed, please contact Xiaoxiao Jiao, Chinese Language Coordinator, at xxj1@nyu.edu.

Designed to consolidate the student's overall aural-oral proficiency. Focuses gradually on the written aspect of Chinese. The objectives are: to be able to obtain information from extended conversation; to both express and expound on, in relative length, feelings and opinions on common topics; to expand vocabulary and learn to decipher meaning of compound words; to develop reading comprehension of extended narrative, expository and simple argumentative passages; to solve non-complex textual problems with the aid of dictionaries; to write in relative length personal narratives, informational narratives, comparison and discussion of viewpoints with level-appropriate vocabulary and grammatical accuracy, as well as basic syntactical cohesion; to continue being acquainted with aspects of Chinese culture and society related to the course materials.