Cantonese
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Cantonese is a variety of Chinese mainly spoken in China’s Guangdong province, Hong Kong, and Macau. There are about 80 million Cantonese speakers worldwide, including many in overseas Chinese communities. Cantonese differs significantly from Mandarin, especially in pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary, which is why it is often considered a distinct Chinese language.
We offer Cantonese courses from level A1.1 to A1.2 following the CEFR.
Not every course may be offered every semester.
Intensive courses (course levels may vary) take place during the semester break in spring and fall.
The intensive courses take place over a shorter period of time, but have more training units per week than the courses during the semester. The number of ECTS and the workload is therefore the same as for the semester-long courses.
Current dates and registration deadlines can be found on our homepage.
You can find a complete overview of our course program in TUMonline.
TUM students will have the opportunity from October 2024 to engage intensively with China and develop specific action competence alongside their main academic studies, as part of the China Expertise Program. More information on the China Expertise Program
Would you like to make contact with other TUM students or employees and at the same time improve your language skills in a flexible and practical way? At TUMtandem we will find a tandem partner for you within TUM and support your joint learning process. More information on TUMtandem
The cooperation between the Chinese Program and the partner universities Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School (Tsinghua SIGS) and National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan Tech) enables TUM students to participate in for a tandem cultural exchange program.
The aim of the program is to deepen the close cooperation between TUM and the partner universities, as well as offering students from both sides a platform for intercultural exchange and foreign language learning opportunities. We bring together TUM students of Chinese level A1.2/A2.1 and students of a partner university as language tandem partners.
Registration: TUM students first take a Chinese course at level A1.2 or A2.1 and can then contact their lecturer(s) to register for the program.
In the online course CHI-NESE you can learn Chinese with complete sentences.
Students and staff members of TUM can book a limited number of free courses which take three months.
Requirement: completion of the first 13 lessons for free.
More information: https://www.chi-nesisch.de/
The Virtual University of Bavaria (vhb) offers online courses on chinese regional studies. The courses can be a useful supplement to the Chinese courses at TUM.
Please note that the TUM Language Center cannot guarantee that ECTS will be awarded for these courses.
All courses at vhb are free of charge for TUM students and registration is done with the TUM ID.
More detailed information about the courses can be found in the course descriptions.
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