Learning Chinese as an adult has many benefits. We have listed the top 5 reasons why adults should learn Mandarin, and in fact, there has never been a better time to start than today!
WHY Learn Chinese?
Chinese Skills Are Rare, And Can Make You An Attractive Hire.
Due to the lack of people in the Western business world who can speak both Chinese and English, or any other language, there’s a huge demand for these skills. Through learning Chinese, you can transform yourself from a low value employee into somebody who is critical to the success of a project in China, thereby making yourself a very attractive hire.
It Improves Your Professional Performance.
It is a fact that organizations who have managed to master the Chinese language and to understand China’s customs and etiquette are far more successful in reaching their fore set goals than those who failed to do so. Moreover, understanding Mandarin, its culture and etiquette makes it so much more easy and fun to become befriended with your colleagues and clients, to help to build your ‘guanxi’, benefitting both you and your company.
It Connects You To Your Chinese Colleagues And Clients.
Language influences culture, so learning Mandarin not only helps you to communicate with Chinese colleagues and clients but also helps you to understand how Chinese people think and feel. Equally important, when you at least try to learn Mandarin, you show your colleagues and clients respect. And that will definitely shorten the distance between them and you.
It Makes You Enjoy Your Life In China To The Full!
Being able to do your daily shopping, book a restaurant, talk to your neighbours, it all makes your life so much more convenient and richer. And through the language you will also learn to appreciate China’s history and culture. You will literally sense the beauty of its porcelain and poetry, its arts and calligraphy, its food culture, all of these still so present and visible in nowadays China. Understanding Mandarin enhances your daily life in China enormously!
It Improves Your Brain Power.
We all know we have to keep our brains well trained and studies have shown that Mandarin speakers use both sides of their brains, instead of just one like non-tonal languages speakers. Indeed, Chinese takes more brain power and as we all know, use it or you loose it! Learning Chinese definitely is important to keep your brain healthy and strong.
Kick Off Chinese
In 4 Workshops we make you familiar with the basics of Mandarin. Yes, we serve you your first sweet taste of Mandarin!
Workshop 1
Game of Tones
In this workshop we make you familiar with the pronunciation of Mandarin in all its aspects. We first introduce Pinyin to you, then we explain how to pronounce the different categories of letters and syllables, and last but not least we gonna practice Mandarin’s infamous tones!
Watch the video to see an example.
Workshop 2
Hack Hanzi
Chinese characters (Hanzi) are formed according to a logical and beautiful system.In this workshop our teacher will show adults various ways to learn and memorise Chinese characters. She will show you that learning characters is not only not as hard as you might think but, moreover, also good fun!
Workshop 3
Slow Motion Technique
Now that you can understand and utter some words, read some Hanzi, it is time to combine words into a proper sentence and express yourself like a native Chinese. In this workshop we will introduce to you our groundbreaking Slow Motion Technique. It indeed teaches you Chinese grammar with just ONE rule instead of dozens, and which student wouldn’t love that?
Learn more about our slow motion technique, by watching the video:
Workshop 4
Culture Check
This fascinating workshop reveals and explains the ancient roots of Chinese culture to adults who follow the course. It also shows how strongly Chinese culture still steers the behaviour, manners and etiquette of Chinese people. But the workshop doesn’t stop there. Most of all, it supplies you with indispensable do’s and don’ts for your daily life and your business career. Don’t miss it!
2 IN 1 – Conversational Chinese
To accommodate the wishes and needs of our students, we present 4 different courses to study Daily Chinese.
Intensive Chinese
30 or 20 classes per week, Mon – Fri mornings, small classes (max 8 students)
Part-Time Chinese Courses
12 or 6 classes per week, weekdays or weekends, small classes (8 students)
Private Chinese Lessons
1-on-1, flexible time and location, tailor made to your needs
Learn Chinese online
Face to face contact with teacher and classmates, i + 1 courseware (grammar, vocabulary) on screen and digital whiteboard to write down your questions
2 Plus 1 – Business Chinese
To teach Business Chinese as a basis we use our Daily Chinese courses. Yet on top of that, we add vocabulary, structures and phrases on the following Business Chinese topics.
Cultural Course
Our Cultural courses provides adults with the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of Chinese culture and habits. They answer your most urgent questions and explain the roots of Chinese culture.