Certificate In Business Chinese

Course introduction

Introduction

This programme combines maximum progress with maximum communicative practice. It develops fluency, confidence and accuracy while improving all the essential skills of reading, listening, speaking and writing. It’s designed to develop student's grasp of the Chinese Language in a business context. The courses focus on basic Hanyu Pinyin (Chinese phonetics), reading, speaking, listening and writing skills.

The aims of this syllabus are to enable students to develop their basic linguistic ability, in a predictable business Chinese context, to:

identify basic data, facts and instructions
produce basic, formulaic text
listen and understand short, basic, business-related Chinese conversations and announcements
understand basic, spoken and recorded business Chinese
participate in short conversations in routine contexts.

On completion of the course, the student will be able to listen to and understand simple conversations, read and understand simple articles, communicate clearly but slowly.