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| CRN | Type | Section | Time | Days | Location | Instructor |
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| 43325 | lecture- discussion | Q | 10:00 AM - 11:20 AM | TR | room 225A Talbot Laboratory | Packard, J |
| Discovery course. |
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| 3 hours The Chinese Language, 3 hours. This course is not a language course, but is an introduction to what the Chinese language is like. We will talk about where the Chinese language came from, including how Chinese character writing was invented and what it's like now. We will explore differences among Chinese dialects spoken in different parts of China (such as Cantonese, Mandarin and Taiwanese), including their relationships with the local cuisines. We will discuss what it means when someone says "Chinese is a tone language", and whether this helps answer questions like "How do people sing songs in Chinese?" Other topics we will cover include how different speakers speak different kinds of Chinese, Chinese language and the brain, strategies for reading Chinese menus, differences between traditional and simplified Chinese characters, how children in China learn to speak, read, and write Chinese, and how adults learn to speak Chinese as a second language. First Year Discovery Program Course. Registration restricted to freshmen. Students should enroll in only one Discovery course. |
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