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Join instructor Kashif Asdi in this engaging course designed to deepen your understanding of Chinese culture by exploring five major festivals: Chinese New Year, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, and Mid-Autumn Festival. Ideal for second-language learners and those wishing to reconnect with their heritage, you will learn essential terminology, practice pronunciation and intonation, and engage in dialogues related to festive celebrations. Discover the rich history and customs of these events while improving your Mandarin through various interactive activities.
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ChineseFestival.com Jing-Huey Lin CI 5362 Instructor: Kashif Asdi How to increase knowledge of Chinese culture by learning and practicing basic dialogs
Introduction • Chinese New Year (Jan 1st, Lunar Calendar) • Lantern Festival (Jan 15th, Lunar Calendar) • Dragon Boat Festival(May 5th, Lunar Calendar) • Chinese Valentine’s Day(July 7th, Lunar Calendar) • Mid-Autumn Festival(August 15th, Lunar Calendar)
Audience: • Persons who use Chinese as a second language and know basic phonetic transcription of Mandarin, • American born Chinese want to know more about Chinese culture, • Persons who are amateurs of Chinese language and Chinese culture.
Goals: • Understand 5important festivals of Chinese culture. • Use at least 50 terms related to those special occasions. • Learn the basic social conversation and precise pronunciation, intonation
Learning Activities: • Readthe brief history, origin and customs • Watchon-line movies • Learnthe vocabularies and terms • Practice short sentences and dialogs • Do various exercises and quizzes
Future: what am I going to do? • Discover more teaching material in Chinese learning. • Increase more interactive function in my project. Ex: quizzes • Learn advanced web editing techniques.