Certificate and Diploma in Communicative Chinese

The Diploma in Communicative Chinese at SOAS Language Centre in London is created to prep students without any previous knowledge of Chinese to live as well as function in a Chinese-speaking environment.

The programme is based on the communicative technique to teaching Chinese and establishes the skills of paying attention, speaking, reviewing as well as writing in a balanced way. Students will also learn how to activate grammatical designs and get a large range of vocabulary which they could make use of to share their meanings precisely as well as appropriately. The programme is regularly adjusted to pupils' learning demands and so the pattern of finding out activities varies from session to session.

A student awarded the Certificate will have the ability to communicate efficiently in Chinese in a restricted range of situations and also be able to review and write fundamental Chinese easily. S/he will certainly have a great command of the language utilized in survival situations, social chats, day-to-day purchases, discussions of current events as well as in different occupational contexts.

A student granted the Diploma will have the ability to connect properly in Chinese in a vast array of professional and also social circumstances and be able to check out as well as create Chinese of considerable complexity, ranging across a wide variety of topics. S/he will have an assured command of the grammar and also vocabulary of the language as well as be able to participate confidently in conversations that cover more innovative subjects and/or involve combined registers.