Indian Institute of Technology Ropar

Office of Continuing Education and Outreach Activities

BASIC ORAL CHINESE CONVERSATION PROGRAM

June 9th - August 10th, 2022

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

IIT Ropar has launched a Taiwan Education Center on its campus, in a bid to promote education and cultural relations between India and Taiwan. The center will also promote Mandarin (Chinese) language among Indian students and faculty to facilitate better understanding and cooperation between higher educational institutions of Taiwan and India. Therefore, in order to achieve the above goal, IIT Ropar in collaboration with Taiwan Education Centre has designed a ‘Basic Oral Chinese Conversation’ program.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

PROGRAM DETAILS

INSTRUCTOR

Jiafeng Xiao

  • Verified Expatriate Chinese Teacher of the Ministry of Education, Republic of China (Taiwan).
  • Chinese Teacher of Blantyre City, Malawi (04. 2016 – 10. 2020)
  • Mandarin Teacher in Kunshan University, Tainan City in Taiwan. (02. 2021 – 06.2021)
  • Mandarin Teacher in Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. (10.2021 - Now)

Who is this course for?

For those who are interested in speaking Mandarin. No prior knowledge of Mandarin is required. In this course, we aim to introduce you to the basic spoken Chinese and necessary characters in which most of the texts are written.

We will demonstrate how to speak day-to-day life simple sentences and learn to have basic conversations. After learning modern conversations, we will learn simple conversations for shopping and self introduction. Also, we will learn basic grammar and sentence rules. Interactive sessions will involve Culture, Poems and Songs.

PROGRAM FEES

Sr. No. Category Fees
A IIT Ropar Student/Employee/Ward 2000 + 18% GST (i.e., 2360)
2 Externals (Non IIT Ropar) 4000 + 18% GST (i.e., 4720)

PROGRAM OUTLINE

  • Introduction to Course content and Chinese: grammar rules, pronunciation, written forms and 4 tones

  • Consonant b, p, m, f, d, t, n, l, g, k, h; vowel a, o, e, ê, I, u, ü; tones with pronunciation

  • Lesson 1 – Personal pronoun and number 0 - 100

  • Lesson 1 – Greeting sentences and self Introduction: Name, nationality and “be” grammar
  • Lesson 1 – “too” grammar, negative tense and tone 1 practice

  • Lesson 2 – Family, “have” grammar and tone 1 practice

  • Lesson 2 – Relatives, “only” grammar and tone 4 practice

  • Lesson 3 – Grammar of “both of”and pronunciation of j, q, x

  • Lesson 3 – Tone 4 practice, grammar of “S + verb” and “S + place + verb”

  • Lesson 3 – Time and Tone 3 Practice

  • Lesson 4 – Tone 3 practice and grammar of “S + adjective”

  • Lesson 4 – Grammar of “like + noun” and pronunciation of zh, chi, sh, r

  • Lesson 4 – Grammar of “Do you have + noun” and pronunciation of z, c, s

  • Lesson 5 – Tone 2 practice, grammar of “this” and “that”

  • Lesson 5 – Tone 2 practice and grammar of “live in”

  • Lesson 5 – Grammar of “I go to”, “I go to place to do”

  • Lesson 6 – Grammar of “like to do” and “like to do something at somewhere / on some time”

  • Lesson 6 – Grammar of “and” and “and also”

  • Lesson 6 - Grammar of “S + time + place + do + noun”

  • Lesson 7 – Calendar and age

  • Lesson 7 - Grammar of “want” and “want to go to Somewhere to do something”

  • Lesson 8 – Review of time, grammar of “S + time + with people + to do something”

  • Lesson 8 – Grammar of “can” and “must”

  • Lesson 8 – How much / How many

  • Lesson 9 – Grammar of “Where”

  • Lesson 9 – Grammar of “How often”

  • Final Review – Writing and speak a self introduction on your own

CERTIFICATE


For evaluation, final examination will be held physically at IIT Ropar and those who pass it will be given “Completion Certificate”.
All others who participate Online will only be given “Participation Certificate”

REGISTER


To register yourself, deposit the registration fees in the bank account given below, and fill this Google Form:
Name- Continuing Education and Outreach Activities
Account Number- 38909055196
IFSC Code-SBIN0013181
Google Form

CONTACT


For More Details, Please contact

Office of Continuing Education and Outreach Activities
Indian Institute of Technology Ropar
Rupnagar - 140001, Punjab

E-mail ID office-ceora-1@iitrpr.ac.in

Tel. No. 91-1881-231120

"The Institute reserves the right to cancel the certificate program, without specifying any reason."