HSK 3: From Short Conversations to Connected Expression
Explore study, work, and culture as you practise recounting experiences and explaining situations. Move from brief exchanges to connected speaking and writing.
- HSK 3
- 22 short lessons
- About 2640 min
What you’ll learn
- Listening for detail
- Understand key information and details in Level 3 daily and social situations.
- Spoken communication
- Complete coherent and appropriate spoken exchanges across the 22 official tasks.
- Reading for detail
- Understand facts, relationships, and viewpoints in Level 3 texts about daily life, study, and society.
- Written communication
- Complete common Level 3 written tasks accurately with sentences and short texts.
Your lesson path
Each short lesson has one clear goal and builds on what you’ve learned.
- Start learning40 steps
1. Meeting New People
Ask about and describe a person's appearance, personality, contact details, and occupation when meeting, looking for, or discussing someone.
- Complete the previous lesson to unlock.45 steps
2. Handling Everyday Services
State needs, confirm information, and solve common problems when making appointments, registering, sending or collecting items, and using everyday services.
- Complete the previous lesson to unlock.47 steps
3. Expressing Yourself Politely
Use appropriate language for invitations, requests, apologies, thanks, and refusals, and explain personal wishes and feelings.
- Complete the previous lesson to unlock.46 steps
4. Food and Dining Habits
Discuss food, drinks, and eating habits, order in a restaurant, and explain tastes, quantities, and special needs.
- Complete the previous lesson to unlock.47 steps
5. Planning a Journey
Compare transport options, arrange routes and times, recount travel experiences, and understand basic traffic rules.
- Complete the previous lesson to unlock.45 steps
6. Shopping Wisely
Ask about products, compare price and quality, explain a choice, and recount a shopping experience.
- Complete the previous lesson to unlock.47 steps
7. Health and Medical Care
Describe symptoms, understand medical advice, visit someone who is ill, and discuss everyday health habits.
- Complete the previous lesson to unlock.47 steps
8. Making Free Time Count
Introduce leisure activities, invite others, arrange a time, and evaluate the experience.
- Complete the previous lesson to unlock.46 steps
9. Finding the Right Home
Describe housing and home life, ask about rental information, and compare places to live.
- Complete the previous lesson to unlock.47 steps
10. Everyday Family Life
Discuss daily habits, family relationships, and household responsibilities, and negotiate arrangements.
- Complete the previous lesson to unlock.46 steps
11. Finding Your Way to Learn
Describe courses, learning activities, and study environments, recount learning experiences, and explain difficulties and improvement plans.
- Complete the previous lesson to unlock.46 steps
12. Life on Campus
Describe a school and campus activities, ask about schedules, and share participation experiences.
- Complete the previous lesson to unlock.47 steps
13. Growing with Family Support
Discuss approaches to family education, childhood experiences, and parent-child communication, and express agreement or disagreement.
- Complete the previous lesson to unlock.47 steps
14. Working Together at the Office
Handle routine office tasks, report progress and working conditions, and coordinate tasks politely with colleagues.
- Complete the previous lesson to unlock.47 steps
15. Choosing a Career
Describe work experience, explain job requirements and advantages or disadvantages, and state a career choice.
- Complete the previous lesson to unlock.47 steps
16. Nature Through the Seasons
Describe climate, seasons, plants, animals, and scenery, and compare natural features of different places.
- Complete the previous lesson to unlock.53 steps
17. Making Places Greener
Describe local environmental problems, propose practical solutions, and explain the changes those actions can make.
- Complete the previous lesson to unlock.51 steps
18. Life in a Changing City
Discuss the benefits and problems of modern life and urban development, and express a personal view.
- Complete the previous lesson to unlock.47 steps
19. Arts and Cultural Events
Obtain and present information about performances and exhibitions, invite others, and evaluate an event.
- Complete the previous lesson to unlock.51 steps
20. Sports and Competition
Introduce sports and competition rules, recount a match, and express opinions about results and performance.
- Complete the previous lesson to unlock.49 steps
21. Chinese Food and the Table
Introduce representative Chinese foods and tableware, and explain how they are eaten, their flavors, and basic table customs.
- Complete the previous lesson to unlock.47 steps
22. China Through Traditional Festivals
Introduce traditional Chinese festivals and customs, compare regional differences, and recount personal experiences or observations.
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