For those foreign students who have no Chinese basis at all and want to learn Chinese from the just beginning, this course will be quite good. With complete and comprehensive basis of linguistics, we pay attention to: --Basic techniques of listening, speaking, reading and writing --Basic sentences and daily dialogues --Chinese tradition and culture By the end of 3-month study, you will have commanded about 1000 Chinese characters, 200 sentence patterns and simple expressions that can be used in your communication with Chinese.