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Chinois de maître en Chine

4 juillet 2007 par des histoires de succès d'affaires de la Chine

Chinois de maître en ChineUne des tendances inhérentes à la croissance économique Chine, est le fait que de plus en plus les gens prennent les cours chinois de langue. La meilleure manière de faire cela ? Allez en Chine et parlez à Sally Zhang. Elle travaille comme directrice de programme à l'organisation chinoise d'éducation de langue dans Pékin. Commodément placé au milieu du centre des affaires de Pékin.

Pékin est à la maison à la plupart de ses étudiants. « À ce moment, nous enseignons le chinois à 82 étudiants. La plupart du temps les occidentaux, mais peuplent également venir du Japon et de Corée. La quantité d'étudiants sans interruption croissante mettent en boîte à un degré soit expliquée, par le nombre solidement croissant de compagnies étrangères en Chine. Il y a quelques années, il y avait seulement la banque chinoise, de nos jours j'ai cinq étudiants qui travaillent pour les banques étrangères opérant en Chine. Ces professionnels financiers doivent pouvoir lire des journaux et des documents en anglais aussi bien que dans le Chinois. Heureusement pour eux, ils fonctionnent aux compagnies où l'anglais est, en ce moment à l'heure, le langage le plus commun. »

Difficultés
Soyez cela comme il peut, la capacité de parler quelques mots de Chinois est encore inévitable. Mais pourquoi la langue chinoise il est-il si difficile maîtriser pour nous ? « Cette langue emploie des prononciations compliquées. Une prononciation différente a une signification différente. Je pense qui est la partie la plus provocante. Il est difficile d'apprendre les caractères chinois aussi bien. Un bout ? Essayez de se rappeler ceci : un caractère a les courses de base. After you remember the basic strokes, it becomes easier to learn and write the more complicated characters.”

Practice
“There are of course many ways to learn Chinese. Some teachers will push you very hard and after one day they will want you to learn sentences. I do not think this is the right way. If the pronunciation is not good, you will have a lot of problems later on. When you want to learn business Chinese, it is important that you cover some basics first. You need to learn and grasp the elementary grammar, before you can move forward to learning the business Chinese. The only difference is in the words, the grammar is the same.” Is that what Sally’s Chinese classes are all about?

Personal advice
“Personally I like to learn other languages. Therefore, our teachers must be able to speak at least one foreign language. If you are able to speak other languages as well, you have the ability to identify the differences. For example, if you come from Japan and you keep on making the same mistake over and over again, I can help you out better if I know your language. Because by knowing your language, I would understand why you make this mistake. Some of our teachers speak German and others speak English. The use of English is very limited in our classes though. I think that when you are, for example, from the Netherlands and your Chinese lessons are in English, you have to translate sentences twice. That is very difficult. That is why I use English only in the beginning of the course. The sooner you start talking Chinese in class, the faster you will master it.”

Go there
“Further, you need to go to China to seriously practice your tones and pronunciation. The best place to learn, would in my opinion be Beijing. In this city, the Mandarin is ‘accent-free’ and not too much people speak English. This way you are pushed to speak Chinese everywhere, all the time. Before you know it, your Chinese will be at such a level, that you do not need your pocket dictionary anymore!”

Chinese Language Education language programs are designed to provide an enjoyable and effective curriculum by combining core Chinese language classes with guided real-life language practice. Their goal is to ensure students to learn the practical Chinese language skills necessary to discuss topics from all aspects of daily life, both personal and professional. For more information, go to: http://www.chinaledu.com/


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