AMB033 Mandarin 3

This 2nd-year Mandarin unit caters for students' needs to expand their working knowledge of Mandarin Chinese and to further develop their macro-skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing after completing their first year elementary Mandarin units. This unit will provide learning activities to consolidate students' command of the Mandarin pronunciation and tones and Pinyin (Romanized Chinese phonetic spelling system) and to enhance their competence in speaking and understanding conversations and simple speech in everyday situations. At the same time more attention will be given to increasing students' ability to read and write texts in Chinese characters. With progressive acquisition of the Chinese language, students will be further exposed to aspects of Chinese culture.