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Overview

This is an introductory course in Modern Standard Chinese language (Mandarin) for non-background speakers. The course will start with basic components of Chinese language: the pinyin, and characters. It will teach you how the Chinese language works both grammatically and in socio-cultural contexts so that you start to develop your… For more content click the Read More button below.

Additional Enrolment Constraints

All students must take the language placement that can be found here - https://hal.arts.unsw.edu.au/students/courses/language-placements. School consent is required to enrol and you will not be able to enrol yourself without completing the language placement.
All students must take the language placement that can be found here - https://hal.arts.unsw.edu.au/students/courses/language-placements. School consent is required to enrol and you will not be able to enrol yourself without completing the language placement.

Course Attributes

General Education

Introductory Course

Delivery

In-person -

Multimodal - Standard (usually weekly or fortnightly)

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Fees

TypeAmount
Commonwealth Supported Students (if applicable)$556
Domestic Students$5280
International Students$5280

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