More Information on Foreign Service Institute Chinese Courses
The purpose of the FSI Mandarin Chinese Car Module is to provide you with the linguistic skills you need to use and take care of your car in everyday situations as well as emergencies. Before starting the Car Module, you should have at least completed the Transportation Module.
Specifics you will learn:
When you have finished this
FSI Mandarin Chinese Car Module, you should be able to:
1. Buy gasoline using the metric system to indicate quantity and costs if necessary. Understand it the at...
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The purpose of the FSI Chinese Hotel Module (HTL) is to provide you with the linguistic skills you need to be able to stay in a hotel and enjoy its services.
Specifics Of What You Will Study
When you have finished this
FSI Chinese Hotel Module (HTL) you should be able to:
1. Ask to reserve a room. Specify whether it will be a single or double, with or without air conditioning, with or without heat.
2. Ask about room rates.
3. Understand questions about whether you want a televisi...
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The purpose of the Module on Customs Surrounding Marriage, Birth and Death is to furnish you with the linguistic skills and cultural background information you need to take part in conversations about changing attitudes and practices with regard to courtship, marriage, birth, divorce, death and funerals in China, and to conduct yourself in a culturally appropriate manner when you come in contact with Chinese people at the time of one of these significant events in their lives.
Before starting the MBD module, you should have at least completed the arranging a Meeting Module. You may, of course, use this module ...
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The purpose of the FSI Chinese Post Office and Telephone Module(PST/TEL) is to provide you with the Linguistic skills you need to mail things, make phone calls and sending telegrams (or emails).
Before starting this Post office and Telephone Module you should have at least completed the Directions Module in the main course. You can use this module at any point after that.
Specifics you will cover in this course
When you have finished this
FSI Chinese Post Office and Telephone Module you shou...
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The purpose of the FSI Chinese Restaurant Module (AST) is to acquaint you with Chinese cuisine and eating customs and to provide you with the linguistic skills you need to be able to order in a restaurant or to dine at home. Before starting the Chinese Restaurant Module you should have at least completed the Money Mondule of the Chinese Basic course.
Specific Topics You Will Learn
When you have finished this
FSI Chinese Restaurant Module, you should be able to:
1. Name four foods or dishe...
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The FSI Chinese Personal Welfare Module (WLF) will provide you with the skills needed to take care of a variety of personal needs and handle yourself
in a number of possibly difficult situations.
Before starting Unit 1 of this module, you should have at least completed the Money Module (MON); and before starting Unit 3, you should have at least completed the Transportation Module (TRN).
OBJECTIVES
When you have finished this
FSI Chinese Personal Welfare Module, you will be able to:
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Standard Chinese: A Modular Approach originated In an Inter-agency conference held at the Foreign Service Institute In August 1973 to address the need generally felt in the U.S. Government language training community for improving and updating Chinese materials to reflect current usage in Beijing and in Taipei.
The conference resolved to develop materials which were flexible enough in form and content to meet the requirements of a wide range of government agencies and academic institutions. This document is a result of this conference.
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The FSI Standard Chinese Orientation Module (Volume 1 of 9) and associated resource modules provide the linguistic tools needed to begin the study of Chinese. The materials also introduce the teaching procedures used in this course.
The Orientation Module is not typical course module in several respects. First, it does not have a situational topic of its ovn, but rather leads into the situational topic of the following module - Biographic Information. Second, it teaches only a little Chinese grammar and vocabulary. Third, two of the associated resource modules (Pronunciation and Romanization, Numbers) are no...
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The FSI Chinese Biographic Information Module provides you with linguistic and cultural skills needed for a simple conversation typical of a first-meeting situation in China. These skills include those needed at the beginning of a conversation (greetings, introductions, and forms of address), in the middle of a conversation (understanding and answering questions about yourself and your immediate family), and at the end of a conversation (leave taking).
Before starting this module, you must take and pass the ORN Criterion Test. The resource modules Pronunciation and Romanization and Numbers (tapes 1-4) are also...
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The FSI Chinese Money Module (MON) will provide you with the skills needed to exchange money, make simple purchases, and discuss your purchases in Chinese.Before starting this module, you must take and pass the BIO Criterion Test. Prerequisites to units 4 and 5 of this module are audios 5 and 6, Numbers resource module and audios 3 and 4, Time and Dates resource module.
OBJECTIVES
Upon successful completion of this
FSI Chinese Money Module, the student should be able
1. Comprehend th...
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The FSI Chinese Directions Module (DLO) will provide you with the skills needed to ask for and understand directions to any place indoors or outdoors, to give simple directions, to understand and give addresses, and to describe relative locations. Before starting the module, you must take and pass the MON Criterion Test.
OBJECTIVES
Upon successful completion of this
FSI Chinese Directions Module, the student should be able to:
1. Give the English equivalent for any Chinese sentence ...
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The FSI Chinese Transportation Module (TRN) viii provide you with the skills needed to use taxis, trains, buses, and planes in China. Before starting this module, you must take and pass the DIR Criterion Test. The TRN Criterion Test will focus largely on this module, but material from ORN, BIO, MON, DIR, and associated resource modules is also included.
OBJECTIVES
Upon successful completion of this
FSI Chinese Transportation Module, the student should be able to
1. Give the English e...
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The FSI Chinese Arranging a Meeting Module (MTG) will provide you with the skills needed to arrange meetings or social gatherings, to greet people, to make introductions, and to accept or decline invitations in Chinese. Before starting this module, you must take and pass the TRN Criterion Test.
OBJECTIVES
Upon successful completion of this
FSI Chinese Arranging a Meeting Module, the student should be able to:
1. Give the English equivalent for any Chinese sentence in the MTG Target...
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The FSI Chinese Society Module (SOC) will provide you with the linguistic skills and cultural background information you need to visit a Chinese family, discuss some aspects of family life and society, to find out how someone's family fits into the pattern of traditional Chinese society, and how it reflects the changes of modern society.
Before starting this module, you must take and pass the MTG Criterion Test. In addition, it is assumed that by this point you will have already completed the optional modules Personal Welfare, Restaurant, and Hotel vocabulary from these modules is now considered taught.
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The FSI Chinese Traveling in China Module(TRV) will provide you with the linguistic skills and cultural background information you need to travel within the Chinese republic.
OBJECTIVE
Upon successful completion of this
FSI Chinese Traveling in China Module, the student should be able to:
1. Make travel plans with a travel agent.
2. Speak to locals once you have traveled to a new location.
3. Make introductions of yourself and others when meeting new people.
4. Ask ...
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The FSI Living China Module(LIC) will provide you with the linguistic skills and cultural background information you need live within China. This is an advanced module and should only be used after completing all prior material. This Module
does not contain any written texts, just the audio files fo flow along with.
OBJECTIVE
Upon successful completion of this
FSI Chinese Living in China Module, the student should be able to:
1. Make friends and converse with your Chinese ne...
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