This course serves as the basic course for interantional students of Chiense beginners in short-term programme in SCNU. The content of this course intends to help international students access to basic daily Chinese social communication by focusing on the speaking and communicative skills while also highlighting the fundamental Chinese character recognition and the handwriting skills. The topics are relevant to the basic needs in real life of social communication ranging from greetings, family, time, foods, shopping, hobbies, directions, weather and transportation. In the course, learning-through-life-experience and context-teaching approach are incorporates into the classroom teaching.