The course consists of five lectures. Each lecture consists two classes:”Grammar and Vocabulary””Dialogue and Practice”. Inclass of “Grammar and Vocabulary”,you will learn some new words and grammar;then in of class ”Dialogue and Practice”, you will practice relevant conversations. The first lecture is mainly focused on Pinyin, helping zero-level learners quickly grasp the composition of Pinyin, and read new words and sentences easily. The last four lectures focus on function, using Task-based language teaching, focusing on the necessary vocabulary life communicative items in the primary Chinese teaching stage,including “introduction, family and nationality, date and time, make an inquiry”. By studying this course, the learns may conduct daily conversations around the topics like greeting and introduction, family and nationality, date and time, make an inquiry, etc. , and acquire some preliminary knowledge of the contemporary Chinese culture.