25 Basic Mandarin Chinese Sentences (Grammatical) Structure  (Flex - Full Semester Course)

This 12-week course is a semester long class, taught by a native speaker. This is a flexible scheduled course that will allow your learner to work on his/her own time while receiving regular weekly feedback from me.

We will focus on learning how to use the basic common sentence patterns to speak Mandarin in an effective and correct way. This will give students the ability to start asking / responding questions as a native speaker.  Since we are focusing on creating sentences, learners can either look up the dictionary or use English when creating sentences. This way, learners will not get frustrated from the vocabulary terms that they don't know. For example: learners can either say “Wǒ zhù zài táiwān.” or “Wǒ zhù zài Taiwan” (I live in Taiwan.)
Learners with more Mandarin experience or proficiency are encouraged to learn the "Optional Learning" part. I am happy to assign more practice projects to learners who are interested in the "Optional Learning". 

Students will learn a total of 25 fundamental sentence patterns/grammatical structures. Topics of 12 weeks are: Hello, Family, Classmates, Breakfast, Winter and Summer, Birthday, Let’s Draw a Picture, After Class, Where, Grandparents, Going to School and Are You at Home. 

Each Sunday, a new lesson will be released which will include:
•	A prerecorded video by me.
•	New Sentence patterns
•	I will explain the meaning, providing examples, video(s) and/or game(s) to help students learn them. 

Every Tuesday and Thursday, learners will submit their video/voice recording or writing to the classroom. I will review them and provide suggestions and answers weekly. Learners are welcome to post any questions they may have at any time. 

Additional materials:
•	I will provide conversational sentences for each week. This will help the students to better understand when/how we can use the sentence pattern(s).
•	A list of new vocabulary words (optional Learning).  Learners with more Mandarin experience or proficiency are encouraged to learn the "Optional Learning" part. 

Being a native speaker, I have found that in teaching Mandarin the most efficient and most natural approach is a partial language immersion model. The students will hear me speak a lot of Mandarin and will have fun repeating phrases after me. We will initially focus on comprehension and then move to reading, and sentence patterns (first grammatical concepts). Your learner will not notice how much he or she is learning while having fun!!