Learn chinese with this complete Chinese course of level 1 of the Chinese Language Certificate HSK.
Prerequisite skills: none, course for complete beginners.
Objectives:
- Understand and use familiar and everyday expressions and very simple statements that aim to meet concrete needs
- Knowing how to introduce yourself or someone
- To be able to ask questions about a person and answer the same type of questions
- Communicate in a simple way if the person speaks slowly and clearly and is cooperative
Average learning duration: 50 hours
Structure: divided into 10 lessons, this Chinese course will let you learn 150 words of HSK level 1 vocabulary (over 211 words with variants) and the basics of Chinese pronunciation and grammar. From lesson 4, each lesson includes a full HSK test simulation adapted to the lesson level to gradually train you to the real test.
Assessment method: at the end of the course, two HSK simulation tests (listening and reading) randomly take up all the questions of the level HSK 1 course. These simulations are timed according to the time allotted in the real HSK exams. With a bank of 280 different questions, these simulations allow you to train on different tests each time.
Price: free for simple consultation, 39€ with exercises and dynamic tests (duration of registration: 1 year).
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Enrollment
Price: 39€
Enrollement duration: 12 months
Course content
Language competences: to acquire the basics of Chinese pronunciation and writing; learn how to greet, thank, ask if someone is fine.
New words: 11
New Chinese characters: 10
Grammar: simple sentence, yes or no questions; adjectival verb; particle 呢
Language competences: to learn how to greet politely, ask forgiveness, say thank you, please, etc.
New Chinese characters: 16 Total at this level: 24
Grammar: Plural, adverb 也, please 请
Language competences: to know how to introduce yourself (surname, first name, nice to meet you, etc.)
New Chinese characters: 21 Total at this level: 47
Grammar: the verb ‘to be’ 是; Open-ended questions; The Affirmative-negative questions; 姓 and 叫; Structural particle 的.
Language competences: how to ask questions, how to answer when asked about nationality, where one lives, if one can speak a foreign language; how to convey the idea of totality.
New Chinese characters: 21 Total at this level: 68
Grammar: interrogative word 哪; the adverb 都; 在 and the adverbial phrase of place; the verb 会.
Language competences: counting in Chinese; asking for date and age.
New Chinese characters: 21 Total at this level: 89
Grammar: natural numbers, date and age, 的 and the subordinate clause.
Language competences: telling the time; use of simple directional complements; to make a call; to locate in time (punctual time and complements of time).
New Chinese characters: 22 Total at this level: 111
Grammar: the modal particle 了, the time, punctual time and duration, simple directionals, verb-object (separable verbs), 能 and 一点儿.
Language competences: talking about family and work; to know how to use classifiers (measure words).
New Chinese characters: 20 Total at this level: 131
Grammar: classifiers; demonstratives; the conjunction 和; the verbs 想 and 有, omission of particle 的.
Language competences: To be able to say what we own, to describe and to locate.
New Chinese characters: 19 Total at this level: 150
Grammar: classifiers 杯 and 本; location words.
Language competences: talking about shopping, transport and weather.
New Chinese characters: 20 Total at this level: 170
Grammar: two ways to translate "how much?" ; transport and adverbial complement of means; the enumeration comma; the probability.
Language competences: likes and dislikes, complex sentence, emphasizing with the 是…的 structure, to be in the process of,...
New Chinese characters: 17 Total at this level: 187
Grammar: the structure for emphasizing; the object-verb; various structures for expressing "in the process of".
HSK test simulations draw at random all Level 1 questions within the same time limit as set in actual HSK tests (15 minutes for listening comprehension and 17 minutes for reading comprehension)
In the real HSK test, the recordings of each question are played twice and follow each other without pause. For more realism, I invite you to listen to each recording twice.
In this section you will find 5 additional texts written with the characters of the level 1 program, but with other combinations to form new words and expressions that are not in the HSK program.
These texts are written in a deliberately authentic style, with very Chinese expressions that go beyond the HSK program.
To obtain the Certificate of Completion, you must meet all of the following conditions:
- obtain a final course grade equal to or greater than 16/20 (80%)
- pass the final listening test
- pass the final reading test