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  • Getting started with Chinese 2
  • Introduction
    • Introduction
    • Open Centre for Languages and Cultures
  • Week 1: I learn Chinese in the evening
    • Introduction
    • 1 How to refer to different languages
    • 2 Daily activities
    • 3 Time expressions
    • 4 Names of countries, people and language
    • 5 What would you say?
    • 6 Build a language notebook
    • 7 Practising and consolidating
    • 8 Typing Chinese characters
    • 9 Word formation
    • 10 This week’s quiz
    • 11 Summary of Week 1
  • Week 2: What are you going to do tomorrow evening?
    • Introduction
    • 1 I watch TV on Monday morning
    • 2 I am going to London tomorrow
    • 3 Asking questions with ‘what’ and ‘where’
    • 4 Use of dōu 都 (both/all)
    • 5 dōu 都: asking about habitual actions
    • 6 Emphatic dōu 都 in statements
    • 7 Location, location, location
    • 8 Choice questions with háishi 还是
    • 9 What would you say?
    • 10 Build a language notebook
    • 11 Practising and consolidating
    • 12 Head components
    • 13 This week’s quiz
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This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University badged course LXC002 - Beginners Chinese 2: 开始吧 kāishĭ ba! [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] . Visit the OpenLearn’s hub for language content where you will be able to build on your newly found language skills.

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