Chinese course --It is intended to be an intensive course for foreigners who have just started to learn Chinese. This Chinese course lays emphasis on improving the ability of the learner to use Chinese for communication. It integrates the communication function with the grammatical structure and presents the most essential and useful part of the language in the linguistic environments one is usually exposed to in daily life, so as to enable the learner to master the 301 basic conversational sentences fairly quickly, to acquire the ability to carry on simple conversations with the Chinese.