#ap chinese

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LES GOOOOO AP CHINESE LETS SEE IF I GET A 5 YALL

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Hey so your desc says you take ap mandarin? My high school offers ap and ib, idk if yours does but I’m going to ask anyways, which would you recommend? I’m leaning towards ib because I think it will be more application but idk if the ap covers more material or not

IB 100% you'll learn more, and more relevant to the world words, specially grammar (I think because I watched IB videos to learn how to write better). AP Chinese will leave you well-versed in culture points and some history though.

Also, check into the college you want to go to for their college credit/class placement based on language level. See if they accept IB/AP, if so, what score? That could be another way you make your choice.

For me, I had to take AP Chinese twice, once I self studied it, and second as an actual class online. I got a 4 on the exam during the COVID year where it was only speaking. It really helped me write faster and learn more vocab, but by the end I felt I was cutting corners because I knew the AP format well enough to answer correctly with less effort.

Anyone else have experience with IB Mandarin?

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Good luck to everyone taking the AP Chinese, AP Japanese, and AP Physics 1 Test tomorrow! You’re going to do great! Deep breaths you got this <3 <3 <3

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when College Board asks me about stuff I never learned but I'm in the middle of the exam and need to suck it up and finish

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[academiix]

One of the hardest parts of AP Chinese is the speaking portion! There is a wide variety of topics that it could cover. Here are some topics that you can prepare for!

Western vs Chinese

-  Western vs Chinese habitual differences (i.e. holidays, names, family structure, greetings, gender roles, time management, etc)

- Western vs Chinese clothing

- Western vs Chinese foods

- Chinese vs Western names 

- Chinese vs oil painting

Culture

- What to do when going to a Chinese person’s home for dinner

- Four great inventions - compass, gunpowder, paper, printing

- 2 idiom stories (i.e. 叶公好龙、拔苗助长、守株待兔、刻舟求剑)

- A riddle

- A poem (i.e. 鹅鹅鹅、静夜思考、etc）

- Beijing opera

- Characteristics of Chinese characters

- Confucius

- Zheng He

- A Chinese short story/tale

- Martial arts

- Paper cutting

- Chinese chess

- The Great Wall

Food

- Describe a food (i.e. fried duck, dumplings, etc)

- Story about a food

- Regional Chinese foods

Holidays

- Chinese New Year / 春节

- Lantern festival / 元宵节

- Mid-Autumn festival / 中秋节

- Dragon Boat Festival / 端午节/龙舟节

- Double ninth festival / 重阳节

- Qing Ming festival / 清明节

Other

- Travel Plans

- Current Events

- Your idol

- Common signs (road signs or labels) in Chinese

- Introduction of your school

- What you would do in Beijing

- extracurricular activities

- Volunteering activities

- Ethics (i.e. benefits and consequences of using phones, the internet, phones, etc)

- Favorite movie

Other things to do for fun:

- Watch a Chinese movie. I recommend: Red Cliff, Back to 20, The Witness, Mr. Six)

- Listen to Chinese songs. I recommend artists like Jay Chou, JJ Lin (his song Twilight is soooo good), Jane Zhang, and newer idols like LuHan and ZTAO. 

- Watch a Chinese drama. I’m currently watching Fighter of the Destiny/择天记 but there are a tonn out there!

- Watch a Chinese variety show. I recommend 奔跑吧 (Running Man China), 极限挑战 (Go Fighting), 快乐大本营 (Happy Camp), 非诚勿扰 (If You are the One), Where are we going, Dad? (爸爸去哪儿). 

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