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This level is for learners who can manage everyday exchanges and now want to speak at greater length, follow natural speech and read more independently. Lessons move beyond set phrases towards explaining, describing, comparing and giving opinions, so that you can take part in conversations rather than simply respond. You work through the grammar that makes Mandarin sound fluent: the aspect markers 了, 过 and 着, complements of result, direction and degree, the 把 and 被 constructions, comparisons, and the connecting words that link ideas into longer sentences. Your vocabulary widens to cover work, travel, health, media and current events. For listening, we move from teaching dialogues to natural-speed material such as podcasts, interviews and film clips, in the accent you have chosen and, increasingly, in others. Reading progresses from messages and short notices to graded readers and straightforward articles, and you begin writing short emails and paragraphs, typed and by hand. You set the emphasis. Some students concentrate on conversation for work or travel, others on reading and writing for study, and others prepare for the intermediate levels of the HSK or TOCFL. By the end of this level, you will be able to hold conversations on familiar and some unfamiliar topics, tell a story, explain a problem and argue a point of view. You will follow the main points of everyday speech and media, read straightforward texts with occasional help from a dictionary, and recognise around [1,200] characters. The level corresponds roughly to CEFR B1–B2.