Chinese good luck charms. (Image courtesy of Daniel Bersak.)
Instructor(s)
Tong Chen
MIT Course Number
21G.103
As Taught In
Fall 2003
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Highlights
The study materials for this course feature animations of how to write Chinese characters. The section also includes content from the course discussion boards that is used to teach students about Chinese language and culture.
Course Description
This course is designed to consolidate the foundation built in Elementary Chinese and continue developing students skills in aural comprehension, reading, and writing.
Upon completion of the course, students should be able to speak Chinese with some fluency on basic conversational topics, achieve a basic level of reading competence within simplified and traditional characters learned plus common compounds, and be able to write short compositions.