In this course, students will continue developing their skills in Mandarin Chinese through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This course focuses on cultural understanding and advanced development and use of pronunciation, grammar, tones, and simplified Chinese characters. This course has a Conversation Café that allows students to speak with each other and with native or fluent language mentors as they put learned material into practice. This is the fourth course in a four-part Chinese series, which aligns to ACTFL standards.