Chinese Proficiency (HSK) Course 3C

Who is the HSK3C course suitable for?

The HSK3C course is designed for individuals who have already completed our HSK3B course or have a minimum of 120 hours of Chinese learning experience. After completing this course, your Chinese vocabulary will expand to 600 words. By the end of the course, learners will also be equipped with the ability to participate in the HSK Level 3 exam.

What textbook is used in this course?

The textbook used in this course is "HSK Standard Course 3" and over the ten-week sessions, we will cover the content of Lessons 15 to 20.

What will you gain from the HSK3C course?

Communication skills

At the end of the HSK3C course, you'll be able to:

carry out more complex conversations in daily life and talk about more complex experiences
talk about complex feelings and emotions and express views and ideas more fluently and authentically
use Chinese to give reminders, make more complex requests, and make arrangements

Language knowledge

Chinese Character

You'll gain more knowledge about the formation of Chinese Characters. You'll learn about Pictophonetic Characters, which make up the largest percentage of all characters. In addition, this course will select the learned Chinese characters as morphemes, and generate new words from these learned words without changing the morpheme meaning. This will cultivate your ability to understand words with morpheme meaning and construct new words.

Chinese complements

You'll further study Chinese complements and learn about complex complements of state and extension of the complements of direction. In addition, this course will teach more unique sentence patterns in Chinese such as the “Ba” sentences, and the “Bei” sentences.

Chinese sayings

This course will teach 10 common Chinese sayings. Most of the characters and words involved in these sayings are learned in the HSK1, HSK2, and HSK3(A) courses. By learning these Chinese sayings, learners will be able to use Chinese more authentically.

Culture experience

During this course, you will:

gain the cultural knowledge contained in Chinese sayings
gain cultural knowledge about what food Chinese people eat on their birthdays, and taboo gifts in China
experience Chinese food culture and gift-giving culture by watching videos and in-class participation

For more information on this course, please contact llahub@newcastle.ac.uk or enquire here