This course is offered to the international students at the Institute of Tropical Agriculture with the purpose to enhance their Chinese ability in communication with local people and to minimize inconvenience in their daily life. The ultimate goal of this course is to improve the international students’ understanding of Taiwan’s culture and society to meet the increasingly important need of international communication. This course uses ‘Far East Everyday Chinese(BookⅠ) ’ as its textbook, which was published by Far East Book Co.. Other materials, if deemed appropriate, will also be included in the course. The contents of this course are listed as follows: 1. Phonetic spelling exercise and explanation of the meaning of vocabulary; 2. Recognition and practice of commonly used sentences; and 3. Conversation practices. This course aims at teaching students the correct Chinese pronunciation through the use of its Romanized spelling. The main purpose of this course is to enhance students’ ability in listening, reading, speaking and writing. In addition to practicing the sampled sentences and other contents in the textbook, students will be grouped into pairs to practice conversation after finishing the instruction of each unit. This practice will not only enhance students’ memory but also ensure students’ ability to effectively apply the knowledge that they learn into practice. This will improve the effectiveness of students’ learning of Chinese.