國際中文（廣東話）課程及中國文化課程

CHIN9501 - 9508: 國際中文（普通話）課程
CHIN9511 - 9512: 國際中文（廣東話）課程
CHIN21-22: 中國文化課

Mandarin Orientation

學生心聲

國際中文（普通話）課程簡介 (CHIN9501-08)

申請程序（適用於曾成功修讀CHIN9501-08的學生）

1. 如果您曾經在香港大學成功修讀任何一門CHIN9501-08課程，完成以下申請程序，您的申請將被接受。

(i) 盡早通過SIS註冊；（遲交申請將會降低錄取優先順序）；

(ii) 如果您希望獲得批准，您必須：(a) 於 9 月 1 日（星期二）親自出席課程簡介會。若你星期二沒有中文課，請透過 Zoom 參加該簡介會。相關時段及 Zoom 會議資料將上載至 Moodle 及／或由任課老師通知；(b) 於簡介會期間，向任課老師提交《中文語言能力聲明表》表格的紙本；或填妥該表格後，於指定辦公室提交予老師（具體時間及地點將由任課老師公布）。

(iii) 完成步驟（i）及（ii）後，你將於 9 月 3 日或 4 日課堂結束後收到申請「通過」的確認電郵。在你於 9 月 3 日或 4 日的課堂上完成最後步驟之前，你的申請狀態將維持為「待定」。任何在 9 月 4 日前未完成步驟 (i) 至 (iii) 的申請都將被標記為「不獲批准」。（**如果您在 9 月 3 日或 4 日期間身處香港境外，無法上課，請聯絡您已註冊班別的導師，以查詢特別安排。否則，你的申請將不予受理。）

申請程序（適用於新註冊學生）

2. 如果您是新註冊學生（即從未在香港大學修讀過任何 CHIN9501-9508 課程的全日制本科生和交換生）並希望於第一學期申請修讀 CHIN9501–07，請完成以下申請程序：

(i) 盡早通過SIS註冊；（遲交申請將會降低錄取優先順序）；

(ii) 請於指定時間*親自完成分班測試，包括筆試及口試；並於 9 月 1 日（星期二）親自出席課程簡介會。若你星期二沒有中文課，請透過 Zoom 參加該簡介會。相關時段及 Zoom 會議資料將上載至 Moodle 及／或由任課老師通知。

* 所有已透過 SIS 登記的新生（包括沒有任何中文基礎的學生）將於 2026 年 8 月 26 日或之前透過香港大學電郵及／或 Moodle 獲通知筆試的地點及時間，並於 2026 年 8 月 31 日或之前獲通知口試的地點及時間。請定期查閱你的港大門戶網站。

(iii) 在指定時間親自完成步驟（i）和（ii）後：

📩 如果課程適合您，我們將通過HKU門戶或Moodle郵件發送消息給您。然而，如果您希望獲得批准，您必須在 9 月 3 日或 4 日親自參加您註冊的課程。任何在 9 月 4 日前未完成步驟 (i) 至 (iii) 的申請都將被標記為「不獲批准」。或者，

📩 如果您註冊的課程不適合您的水平，導師會盡早或通過電子郵件通知您最適合您的課程，最遲不會晚於 9 月 3 日。系統開放後，您須於SIS上註冊新課程，並按照時間表參加課程。如果你未收到教師或電郵通知，或未能於 9 月 3 日前在網上注册新課程，請於 9 月 3 日或 4 日出席你應注册的新班別。（你可透過以下連結查閱時間表：國際生課程 | 漢語中心）。

如果您希望獲得批准，則必須在9 月 3 日或 4 日出席。任何在 9 月 4 日前未完成步驟 (i) 至 (iii) 的申請都將被標記為「不獲批准」。

** 請注意：

（a）我們將無法回復任何個人查詢，如申請結果、申請過程狀態、不批准的原因或不

批准後要求重審的詢問。

（b）除非在指定日期前完成上述程序，否則申請將不予考慮。

（c）為了提高您的錄取優先順序，如果您已經具有中文（包括粵語及漢字）基礎，請

不要註冊 CHIN9501。

（d）如果你因合理原因於 9 月 1 日至 4 日期間不在香港，請聯絡您在線註冊的課程導師，並盡早於8月20日之前通過電子郵件提交相關支持文件。否則，您的申請將不被考慮。

（e）申請第一學期課程的學生如果在 2026 年 9月 2日（星期三）之後完成現場筆試和口試，則不能保證獲得席位。

時間表

2025-2026學年下學期

加課/退課期間，報名人數不足之班級被取消。

教科書購買：

CHIN9501-02：《中文初階》

在百周年校園逸夫苑地下香港大學出版社書店購買。

CHIN9503-06: 請點擊此處獲取相關信息。

Cantonese Orientation

國際中文（廣東話）課程及中國文化課程簡介

申請程序 (CHIN9511-22)

學生必須通過特定的篩選程序以獲錄取修讀相關科目的資格。學生應該：

(i) 盡早透過SIS（學生資訊系統）註冊相關科目（遲交申請者，錄取優先順序較低）；及

(ii) 在第一堂課遞交填寫完的中文語言能力聲明 (僅適用於申請CHIN9511、9512和9521的學生)或中文語言與文化能力聲明（適用於報名CHIN9522的學生）；及

(iii) 如有需要，在第一堂課進行分級測試。

（注意：如未完成上述程式，相關申請將不獲考慮。）

教科書購買：

CHIN9511：《大家嘅廣東話》（粤拼版）

在三聯書店（香港）購買：西環卑路乍街8號西寶城 111號舖（港鐵香港大學站C2出口）。

Culture Course Orientation

CHIN9522 課程簡介

CHIN9522 Exploration of Major Cultural Themes across Chinese History (6 credits)

1. CHIN9501 Chinese as a Foreign Language I (6 credits) (old course title: CHIN1501)

This intensive course is intended for international undergraduate students, exchange and visiting students who have no prior knowledge of Chinese language. It aims to build a solid foundation for students wishing to go on to more advanced levels of language study and in-depth study of Chinese culture and society. It familiarizes students with the phonetic system of Putonghua, i.e. Hanyu Pinyin System. Students will learn pronunciation, tones, and basic patterns so as to speak short sentences and carry basic

conversations on the familiar topics accurately and clearly. Students with no prior knowledge of Chinese characters must master 100 commonly used simplified Chinese characters (Hanzi, 汉字)*. The course emphasizes overall development in all four language skills in addition to Chinese word processing.

*Note: Chinese characters will not be specifically taught in class but will be an integrated part of the course. Students with no prior knowledge of Chinese characters must study 100 commonly used simplified Chinese characters on their own by following the learning plan and e-learning materials via the links posted on Moodle.

Assessment: 100% coursework

CHIN9501 Course Outline

3. CHIN9503 Chinese as a Foreign Language III (6 credits) (old course title: CHIN2501)

This intensive course is intended for foreign learners who have completed CHIN9502 or have attained an equivalent level of competency. It aims to increase students’ communicative and linguistic competence in listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating. It also provides in-depth study of Chinese culture and modern Chinese society. So CHIN9503 give students a solid foundation of communication ability to go to higher levels in Chinese studying. Students will learn these techniques through analyzing short passages and presentations for features of successful communication and practicing these through a variety of activities, including in-class discussions, presentations, role playing, peer and teacher feedback on both speaking practice and written assignments.

Prerequisite: “CHIN9502 Chinese as a foreign language II” or equivalent

CHIN9503 Course Outline

2. CHIN9502 Chinese as a Foreign Language II (6 credits) (old course title: CHIN1502)

This intensive course is intended for foreign learners who have completed CHIN9501 or who can demonstrate equivalent competence in the placement test. A greater emphasis will be placed on oral drills and listening comprehension. Upon the completion of the course, students should be able to write an essay of 300 characters.

Students will also be exposed to various aspects of Chinese culture and history in learning the origins of Chinese characters and idioms.

Prerequisite: “CHIN9501 Chinese as a foreign language I” or equivalent
Assessment: 100% coursework

CHIN9502 Course Outline

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4. CHIN9504 Chinese as a Foreign Language IV (6 credits) (old course title: CHIN2502)

This intensive course is intended for foreign learners who have completed CHIN9503 or have attained an equivalent level of competency. It aims to increase students’ communicative and linguistic competence in listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating. It also provides in-depth study of Chinese culture, geography of China, Chinese history and modern Chinese society. So CHIN9504 give students a solid foundation of communication ability to go to higher levels in Chinese studying. Students will learn these techniques through analyzing short passages and presentations for features of successful communication and practicing these through a variety of activities, including in-class discussions, presentations, role playing, peer and teacher feedback on both speaking practice and written assignments.

Prerequisite: “CHIN9503 Chinese as a foreign language III” or equivalent

CHIN9504 Course Outline

5. CHIN9505 Chinese as a Foreign Language V (6 credits) (old course title: CHIN3501)

This intensive course is intended for international undergraduate students, exchange and visiting students who have completed CHIN9504 or have attained equivalent competence in the language. It aims at enhancing students’ communicative competence, i.e. listening, speaking, reading and writing. Students will be exposed to Chinese society and culture through a variety of topical discussions and different audiovisual media including films (movies)and Vlog.

Students are required to write compositions of 350-400 Chinese characters, and use short phrases/words/sentence structures learnt in class to further strengthen their knowledge of the Chinese language and culture. This course will help intermediate-high language learners broaden and deepen their grammar and vocabulary knowledge, fill the gap between spoken sound and written word, and strengthen their practical Mandarin language skills.

Prerequisite: “CHIN9504 Chinese as a foreign language IV” or equivalent

CHIN9505 Course Outline

6. CHIN9506 Chinese as a Foreign Language VI (6 credits) (old course title: CHIN3502)

This intensive course is intended for foreign learners who have completed CHIN9505 or have attained an equivalent level of competency. It aims to increase students’ communicative and linguistic competence in listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translating. It also provides in-depth study of Chinese culture and society.

Students will learn these through a variety of activities including in-class discussions and conversations, completion of tasks and assignments, peer and teacher feedback on both speaking practice and written assignments.

Prerequisite: “CHIN9505 Chinese as a foreign language V” or equivalent
Assessment: 100% coursework

CHIN9506 Course Outline

7. CHIN9507 Chinese as a Foreign Language VII (6 credits) (old course title: CHIN4501/ CHIN3503) (To be Offered in the 1st semester, 2025-26 ONLY)

This intensive course is intended for international undergraduate students, exchange and visiting students who have attained equivalent competence to HSK level 6 or New HSK level 4. It aims at enhancing students’ communicative competence, specifically targeting at speaking, reading and writing. Students will be exposed to Chinese society and culture through a greater variety of topical discussions and different audiovisual media include films (movies), television, and Vlog. Students are required to write essays of 800 or more Chinese characters, and use short phrases/words/sentence structures learnt in class to further strengthen their knowledge of the Chinese language and culture. This course will help advanced language learners enhance their lexical and syntactic knowledge, as well as improve their writing and presentation skills through live practice and feedback through training.

Prerequisite: “CHIN9506 Chinese as a foreign language VI” or equivalent
Assessment: 100% coursework

CHIN9507 Course Outline

8. CHIN9508 Chinese as a Foreign Language VIII (6 credits) (old course title: CHIN4502/ CHIN3504) (To be Offered in the 2nd semester, 2025-26 ONLY)

This intensive course is for those foreign students who have completed CHIN9507 or CHIN9506, or attained equivalent competence to Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) Level 4-5. The Students will be exposed to some hot topics on Chinese society and culture through the study of the textbook and Chinese news articles. Students will write a topical report and express opinions on some selected social and media topics to strengthen comprehension and writing abilities. Presentation and in-class discussion are designed for students to improve speaking and listening skills. This course will teach 300 new phrases on top of about 2000 characters accumulated in previous levels, with the focus on Chinese news words.

Prerequisite: “CHIN9507 Chinese as a foreign language VII” or equivalent
Assessment: 100% coursework

CHIN9508 Course Outline

9. CHIN9511 Cantonese as a Foreign Language I (6 credits) (old course title: CLDC0001/ CHIN1511)

This intensive course is intended for foreign learners who have no prior knowledge of Cantonese. The course introduces students to present-day Cantonese, with an emphasis on learning correct pronunciation through the Jyutping phonetic romanization transcription system and basic structure. It aims to develop fundamental oral communication skills through a variety of situational conversations in a highly interactive classroom.

Assessment: 100% coursework

CHIN9511 Course Outline

10. CHIN9512 Cantonese as a Foreign Language II

(6 credits)

This intensive course is designed for international undergraduate students, exchange and visiting students (Non‐Heritage Learners) who have completed CHIN9511 or who can demonstrate equivalent competence in the placement test. It aims at strengthening students’ mastery of the phonetic romanization transcription, the Jyutping system, and at enhancing their competence in expressing themselves in the language. A greater emphasis will be placed on oral drills and listening comprehension. More practical sentence patterns and a large range of useful words and expressions related to various aspects of life will be introduced as well.

Prerequisite: “CHIN9511 Cantonese as a foreign language I” or equivalent
Assessment: 100% coursework

CHIN9512 Course Outline

12. CHIN9521 The Fundamentals of Chinese Characters
(6 credits) (old course title: CHIN1521)

This intensive course is intended for international students whose mother tongue is not Chinese. It is designed to introduce the origins and evolution of Chinese characters. The formation and the structure of Chinese characters will be emphasized to help students to break the puzzles of Chinese written form. This course also familiarizes students with the distinctive features of the Chinese characters as a means to introduce them to the unique characteristics of the Chinese language and culture. Students will be equipped with the writing skills to copy any Chinese characters in correct stroke-order and will be familiar with the commonly used components of combined characters after this course. The course will teach up to 220 Chinese characters and about 350 compound words. Students are taught how to use Chinese dictionaries in order to continue learning Chinese characters by themselves.

Assessment: 100% coursework

CHIN9521 Course Outline

13. CHIN9522 Exploration of Major Cultural Themes across Chinese History (6 credits) (old course title: CHIN1522) (To be Offered in the 1st semester, 2025-26 ONLY)

A history and culture course that familiarizes students with China and its past, approached from non-traditional perspectives. The course introduces international students to Chinese history, schools of thoughts, cultural themes and achievements in Chinese civilization; highlights differences and similarities between Chinese and other cultures; stimulates students’ interest in deeper understanding of China, its people, its history and its culture in the global context. Students are required to make presentations on assigned topics.

Assessment: 100% coursework

CHIN9522 Course Outline

11. CHIN9513 Cantonese as a Foreign Language III

(6 credits)

This intensive course is designed for international undergraduate students, exchange students and visiting students (non-heritage learners) who have completed CHIN9512 or who can demonstrate equivalent competence through the placement test. It aims at consolidating students’ mastery of the Jyutping phonetic romanization transcription, and at enhancing their ability to express themselves fluently in Cantonese and accurately write messages in Jyutping. The course will concentrate on growth in oral communication and listening comprehension abilities through a wide variety of communication-based assessments and assignments such as Cantonese speaking Tests and oral presentations. Practical sentence patterns and vocabulary will also be introduced.

Prerequisite: “CHIN9512 Cantonese as a foreign language II” or equivalent
Assessment: 100% coursework

CHIN9513 Course Outline

國際中文（廣東話）課程及中國文化課程 CHIN9501 - 9508: 國際中文（普通話）課程 CHIN9511 - 9512: 國際中文（廣東話）課程 CHIN21-22: 中國文化課

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申請程序 (CHIN9511-22)

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國際中文（廣東話）課程及中國文化課程

CHIN9501 - 9508: 國際中文（普通話）課程
CHIN9511 - 9512: 國際中文（廣東話）課程
CHIN21-22: 中國文化課