This course is designed for beginners. It places emphasis on all four skills ( listening, speaking, reading and writing ) and incorporates into our teaching materials with detailed grammar, while speaking and listening skills will be intensively trained. Our unique teaching materials will enable you to use PinYin (or Pin-Yin), the most powerful tool for self-learning, while learning the four skills with fun and confidence. You can also make, speak and understand thousands of different situational conversations. In the meantime, you will be able to read and write basic and very useful simplified Chinese characters, including sentences. Recommended Textbooks 
| Han Yu Kou Yu 2 – Elementary II 25 lessons Topic-oriented lessons most useful in daily life Plenteous exercises for pinyin correction / tones / language checkpoint English notes of language points and cultural introduction | 
| Han Yu Hui Hua 301 Ju (Part 2) – Elementary II 20 lessons The idea behind CC301 is the 301 basic conversational sentences, which are (as the authors intended) pretty quick to learn. The textbook then builds on these basic sentences via substitutions, expansions, and sample conversations. This is a short term book especially designed to improve your speaking level. You may not get why, but how. | 
| Han Yu Jiao Cheng (Book 1 Part 2) – Elementary II 15 lesson This textbook is the most popular one at universities right now. It has 6 volumes leveling from elementary to advanced, other volume takes about 60 hours. This book features in its effectively-ordered study programs which take steps for learning. Plus, with influential exercises and grammar checkpoints, probably you may find this textbook the easiest to follow. | 
| Boya Chinese (Elementary Start Part II) – Elementary II 20 Lessons Used as the core textbook at Peking University, Boya Chinese is comprised of four levels: elementary, low-intermediate, intermediate and advanced. The elementary level, suitable for beginners, features more than 1200 first-degree words from the Syllabus of Chinese Words. After completing three-volume series, students should test at level 11 of the HSK. |
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