Course Contents

Introduction To Chinese Languages

• Refresher lessons for those who have not studied the Foundational Mandarin course with us

• Obtain functional knowledge about standard Chinese

• Distinguish Chinese spoken and written forms

• Understand Chinese pronunciation and Pinyin romanization

• Distinguish four Chinese tones and pronounce them correctly in a single word

• Understand grammar and word order

Business Greetings and Introductions

• Greet someone and respond to a greeting in social and business settings

• Identify yourself and someone else by surname, given name and full name.

• Carry on a simple conversation with greetings and name inquiry

Contact Details

• Business forms of address, business unit, location, phone number and nationality

• Identity yourself or someone else by his/her correct position or title

• Affirm or negate someone’s identity

• Answer someone else’s phone number

• Tell your home, business and cellphone numbers in Mandarin Chinese

Exchanging Cards

• Identify your business associate/partner by title, position and rank

• Ask and tell where one works

• Ask and tell what one does in a company / corporation

• Introduce your business associate/partners to someone else

• Learn how to exchange business cards

Customised Terminology Session

• In this session you will learn how to use industry related terminologies at workplace.

• Our teacher will help to research the most relevant industry specific terminology in your field.

Describing Products

• Enquiry about price of products;

• Describe style, quality and design of products;

• Ask and tell where one visits and stays during the visit;

• Ask and tell how one goes for a business trip to China

• Ask and tell what business activities will take place during a business trip to China, etc.

Business Trips

• Use and exchange business formalities at a welcome event;

• Ask and tell about one’s journey

• Use polite expressions when meeting business partner for the first time

• Use the right grammar word

Business Meals

• Know Chinese business etiquette such as table manners, eating and drinking etiquettes;

• Propose a toast at business settings;

• Correctly use “le” for exclamation;

• Express the informal way of saying “will do something” in Chinese

Trade Fairs

• Learn how long and how often something takes place

• Describe past events with an emphasis on time, place, purpose, and with whom that event took place

• Learn about the detailed process of a business transaction

Negotiating

• Use the right idiomatic expression;

• Know ways and means of marketing one’s product(s);

• Learn how to bargain for a business transaction a business negotiation table;

• Learn how to place an order and make an offer for a business/trade transaction

• Learn ways of saying “no” to a business deal.