This intensive pragmatic Chinese business language course aims to help business personnel, executives and managers who need to speak or use Mandarin for business purposes. In particular, it is tailor made for those who are venturing into the Chinese market and need to equip themselves with necessary Chinese proficiency skills to handle business situations.
Learning Methodology: Language is learnt through listening and speaking to others. We adopt Listening-based Multisensory Synchro-Learning Approach (L-MSL) developed by 121 Chinese Lessons. This is an interactive-learning approach which emphases listening-based synchronisation of listening, speaking, reading and writing practice in repetition for a fast, easy and effective master of a foreign language. Through this scientific based method, participants are expected to learn new vocabulary and sentence structures through conversational practices and fun activities.
Content and Structure: The course contents will focus on communicative skills and practical business elements to prepare participants for real business interactions. The programme will consist of the following three parts – Business Mandarin Gateway, Business Mandarin Essentials and Language Exchange Forum.
Private one-to-one tutorials will also be available for participants to have lessons on their own preferred timetable, or to tailor to their specific business areas.
1. Business Mandarin Gateway
Description: This is a conversational business Mandarin course for complete beginners. It aims to improve the listening comprehension and speaking abilities of students in an intensive interactive atmosphere. The course will be taught by professional language teachers from mainland China. Participants study in a small group consisting of no more than 10 people. They will study pronunciation and how to conduct the most basic conversations in daily life and business activities, such as self-introduction, organisation introduction, making phone calls, business schedules, etc. The course will serve as a stepping stone to progress to the next intermediate level of Business Mandarin Essentials course.
Duration: 60 hours (20 sessions, 3 hours per session)
Learning Outcome: to have a solid foundation in Hanyu Pinyin and Mandarin pronunciation; able to understand and construct simple phrases on familiar topics, and handle short exchanges and basic conversations, as well as understand and write simple Chinese.
2. Business Mandarin Essentials
Description: This is an intensive intermediate level of Chinese business language course designed to help business professionals to acquire the essential business communication skills and cultural knowledge for conducting business with Chinese community, particularly in China. The course will be delivered by professional language teachers from mainland China. Participants study in a small group consisting of no more than 10 people. They will learn to communicate in a range of business topics that are essential for working in China, such as business correspondence, arranging meetings, visiting a company, business etiquette, product introduction, sales promotions and business negotiation, etc.
Duration: 60 hours (20 sessions, 3 hours per session)
Learning Outcome: to have a good understanding of business Chinese communication style with necessary oral and basic written communication skills for many business situations in China; acquired basic language skills to cope with conversations in Chinese in everyday situations. Participants are also expected to be able to compose simple business emails, conducting business meetings and give presentations in Chinese with ease and confidence.
3. Language Exchange Forum
Description: Live language exchange is the most practical and effective way for any language learning. This Chinese-English Language Exchange Forum is an integral part of Business Mandarin Training programme, which not only offers an exclusive learning opportunity for cracking down communication barriers in foreign language, it also creates opportunities for culture exchange through lively communications and interactions with native Mandarin speakers.
Duration: 3 hours guided One-to-One language exchange at weekends
Study Group
- English group (English native speakers)
- Chinese group (Chinese native speakers)
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