Course Catalog
Mandarin (Chinese) I Semester 1 (Aventa)
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Details
| Course Code: AVCHINSEM1 |
Provider: Aventa Learning Note:
This course has additional technical requirements. See below for details. |
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| Subject: World Languages |
Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Credits: 0.5 (High School) | Level: Standard |
| Course Features: | - NCAA: The online provider has applied for NCAA approval. Use the NCAA code below and check the DLD NCAA Eligibility page for information on the status of the provider's courses. NCAA High School Code: 030618 NCAA Eligibility Information |
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| Terms Available: |
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| Completion Time: | Approximately 90 instructional hours per semester | ||
Note: This course is the first half of a year-long course. Students registering for this course in the fall semester will automatically be registered into the second half of the course in spring semester. View the details for the second half of the course. |
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Costs
| Course Cost: | $284.00 |
| Materials Cost: | None |
| Total Cost: | $284 |
Special Notes
State Course Code
06401
Requirements
Technology Requirements
The school or student is responsible for providing:
General Workstation/Laptop Requirements:
We strive to minimize the technical requirements for our courses. Our multimedia is almost exclusively flash-based to minimize the need for plug-ins. Other requirements include:
Browser:
- Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) is recommended for stability, but both the ESR and final release channel are supported (both Mac and Windows)
- Internet Explorer 8 or 9 (Windows) (Must not be in compatibility mode)
- Safari 4 or higher (Mac OSX)
- Google Chrome stable channel (both Mac and Windows)
- Popup Blocking Disabled
- JavaScript Enabled
OS:
- Windows XP, Vista, and 7
- Macintosh OS X 10.5, 10.6, and 10.7
RAM:
- 512MB or higher
Resolution:
- 1024 X 576 or higher
Media:
- Soundcard and Speakers/Headphones
- Microphone required for certain courses
Plugins:
- Sun Java 6 (Blackboard 9.1 does not work properly with Java 7)
- Flash Player Version 10 or higher
- QuickTime Version 7 or higher
- Real Player required for certain courses
- Jaws 11 or higher (for accessibility)
Third Party Applications:
- Google Earth 6.0
Network Requirements
The school or student is responsible for providing:
Aventa will provide a complete list of external sites that require access upon request to individual districts/schools.
Special Technology Requirements
These are course-specific requirements that go above and beyond the Provider Baseline Technical Requirements.
The school or student is responsible for providing:
Microphone and audio recording software required for completing oral assignments. If computer does not come with sound recording software, free software is available online.
Materials to be ordered via the DLD
The DLD Registrar may order the following materials via the DLD upon registering the student:
No additional materials required for this course.
Description
Standards Alignments
Syllabus / Outline
Semester 1
Introduction to Chinese
• Language
• Writing
• Pronunciation
Greetings
• Hello
• Good morning
• Bye
Numbers
• Numbers: from 1 to 10
• From 11 to 99
• From 100 to 999
• 1,000 and after
My Family
• Family members
• Birthdays
• Housework
School Life
• Classes
• Friends
• Library
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Tonasket High School Student - 06/17/08 
This course taught me a lot, but it was badly put together. The text used really bad grammar, and often gave confusing or contradictory instructions. The audio files were sometimes mixed up. However, the course covered a lot of material. Chinese is really hard to learn- there are four parts to each word that you have to remember: the sound, the tone, the character, and the Pinyin spelling. The course tended to assign around 60 or 50 new words (I counted!) in the first section of each Unit, which was a complete overload. It was impossible to learn all those characters in the few days the schedule gave for the first section, which was frustrating.