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Learning Chinese offers a gateway to cultures and histories spanning millennia and continents, and prepares students to participate in MIT-China programs and our IAP-in-Shenzhen class. Chinese Studies at MIT offers two distinct tracks: Regular and Streamlined.
The MIT-China Program combines student coursework on China and the Chinese language with hands-on applications in industry, research, and educational technology. Undergraduate and graduate students intern in companies and universities spanning mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
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This subject is the first semester of four that forms an introduction to modern standard Chinese, commonly called Mandarin, the language with the largest number of native speakers in the world. It is the official language of Mainland China and Taiwan, and one of the official languages of Singapore.
In August 2020, Dr Haohsiang Liao launched MITx: Chinese Language in Culture, Level 1, a novice-level MOOC course offered by Massachusetts Institute of Technology on edX. This is the first Chinese language MOOC offered by a north American university on edX as well as the first foreign language MOOC on MITx open to the broader public.
Tong Chen is a Lecturer in Chinese, teaching from introductory through advanced levels in the Regular language track, including regularly leading 21G.105 Chinese V (Regular): Discovering Chinese Cultures and Societies.
Kang Zhou is a lecturer in Chinese. He regularly teaches at all levels of the Regular curriculum track and the lower-intermediate level of the Streamlined curriculum track. Zhou also developed and leads 21G.111 Chinese Calligraphy, offered in IAP.
