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The course is designed for businessmen who know little or no Chinese
to begin with, but in the hope that they could learn practical
and basic Chinese knowledge and skills in the business world,
and that they could only take lessons in off hours. In this course,
such communication skills will be taught as follows:
| 1. Ability to use appropriate
expressions on polite social occasion of reception, greeting,
introduction, apology and congratulations. |
| 2. Ability to use appropriate
expressions for shopping, traveling, telephoning and appointment
making. |
| 3. Ability to use appropriate
expressions for commercial activities such as giving a brief
account of a company and its product, getting or giving
comment or statement. |
| 4. Ability to use appropriate
expressions in consulting, negotiation, bargaining, writing
or revising a plan, discussing a way to cooperate, making
a comment on a subject in addition to analyzing and sorting
out problems. |
| Furthermore, the knowledge
of Chinese culture, custom, social status, as well as business
custom and rules will also be taught systematically. Upon
completion of the course, students should have a command
of about 1,200 new words and 200 sentence patterns, and
the ability of conducting basic communication with Chinese
people in the business world. |
Schedule for Group Class
| Preliminary Business
1 |
40 hours |
| Preliminary Business
2 |
50 hours |
| Preliminary Business
3 |
60 hours |
The course is designed for students who have achieved beginner
or intermediate level. The contents consist of company organization,
company equipments, arranging schedule, meeting, presentation
of work plan, discussing business development, advertisement,
complain and explanations, hiring and firing employees, training,
enterprise culture, and business letter, etc. upon of completion
of the course, students should have a command of about 1,600 new
words, and the ability of dealing with daily work with fluent
Chinese and arranging business activities without too much difficulty.
Schedule for Group Class
| Intermediate 1 |
60 hours |
| Intermediate 2 |
60 hours |
| Intermediate 3 |
60 hours |
The course is designed for students who have achieved intermediate
level and can recognize Chinese characters. In the class, the
tutor will conduct group discussion in some hot and sensitive
topics covering contemporary China and the world’s economic life,
such as, “savings and consumption”, “exhibition industry”, “marketing
strategy”, “rising sun industry”, “economical and social development”,
which involves students in an authentic context to learn concrete
business terms and phrases. Meanwhile, students will acquire deeper
understanding of Chinese society, economy and people’s life. Upon
of completion of the course, students should have a command of
about 1,000 new words, with great improvement of reading and comprehension
of economical articles.
| Schedule for
Group Class |
| Advanced Business
1 |
50 hours |
| Advanced Business
2 |
50 hours |
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