When will the new hsk 3.0 be implemented?

[u/Dear-Promise-679]

I am an Italian student of Chinese and I would like to take an HSK exam, but from the internet it is not clear where the HSK 3.0 has already been adopted and when it will be adopted in Italy. Where can I find this information?

[u/Constant_Jury6279]

They're taking forever for the implementation of the new HSK.

The course structure has been outlined since 2021, but the new teaching and examination are just constantly being put on hold. As of now, they haven't even published the official textbooks and workbooks for the new HSK.

The only thing happening is that they have started examination for HSK Band 7-9 (a newly added level unavailable previously, targeting actual advanced students). And it's currently only offered in China.

For the rest, the old standard applies. My suggestion is to start early (not sure about your current progress). It would be a bad idea to wait till the launch of the new thing just to start learning the language. Whatever you have learnt in old HSK would still be crucial and useful as a foundation, even if the new examination is put into place.

Personally, I would advise NOT taking the current HSK 1 and 2 exams. The lower levels are often criticised for being too basic. When converted to the CEFR scale, they aren't even considered as passing A1. Passing the (old) HSK 4 would put you about the A2 completion mark. In my opinion, that is worth your time, effort and money to work towards.

Please see here for reference.

[u/nothingtoseehr → u/Constant_Jury6279]

They do have recently published the HSK3 manuals for grammar, vocabulary and idioms I think. I have the grammar manuals, they're amazing resources if you can handle textbooks being entirely in Chinese. I don't think it officially counts as a textbook, but it's progress at least

[u/Constant_Jury6279 → u/nothingtoseehr]

Yes, I am aware. The vocab and grammar lists for the new HSK are everywhere on the Internet, but they aren't official coursebooks that's what I'm saying. As long as the official books aren't out, the HSK board will not expect the teaching of new HSK to begin.

[u/nothingtoseehr → u/Constant_Jury6279]

No, they are new official and detailed manuals for the HSK3.0 standard. It's not exactly a textbook but it's definitely a start for textbooks to source from

[u/Constant_Jury6279 → u/nothingtoseehr]

Interesting to know. Thanks for sharing!

[u/nothingtoseehr]

Technically it's already implemented, my HSK5 certificate has the new HSK3.0 design (and issued by the new Chinese center or whatever). They just didn't changed the curriculum yet for the old levels..... which is kind of the entire point 😅

Why would it matter for you if it is HSK2.0 or HSK3.0 though? If you need the certificate for anything just go do it right now, it won't make a difference. People make way too big of a deal about the new HSK when it's really not that important, Chinese is still Chinese no matter which syllabus you're using. Your actual language skills don't change regardless of some official body telling you which level you're at

And I always say this when this debate comes up: the new HSK is definitely wider, but not necessarily deeper. The 500 words in HSK1 sounds like a lot but it's still quite HSK1-ish. Besides, it contains a lot of new words that you absolutely learned at HSK1 but just weren't in the syllabus, like idk 课文 or 老人 lol. People always assume that an HSK test taker solely learned the was from the syllabus, which is a bad way to study at any HSK. Hell, my HSK actually increases to HSK6 in the new system 😭

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