Chinese Courses for Business in Ashford

Both professionals and non-professionals alike have seen great benefits from a SIMON & SIMON Chinese Language Course. SIMON & SIMON’s team of qualified Chinese teachers is made up of native speakers who average 15 years of experience. These teachers will make sure that a course is tailored for your specific needs so that you will benefit regardless of your language proficiency. Feedback from clients on our Chinese tutors is consistently highly positive. Our students are sent a profile containing information on their specific teacher’s experience and background before the start of their Chinese Lessons.

The way that modern languages are taught has gone through a revolution in the past few years. If you have only learned languages at school you will find that the experience now is vastly more fun and worthwhile. The Communicative Approach means that your Chinese lessons in Ashford will be almost entirely through the medium of Chinese. You will feel that you are making real progress, even in the first lesson, and will soon communicate in Chinese with confidence, in a range of social and business environments.

Chinese courses from us can be run for groups or individuals. While many of our clients offer their employees Chinese courses on a 1:1 basis, group sessions can be excellent value. Group sessions do require planning and commitment from the participants and we recommend that no more than 6 people participate in a group. As 1:1 lessons can be tailored to an individual’s needs, strengths and weaknesses, learning Chinese in Ashford on a 1:1 basis will give quicker progress.

Chinese Course Management

Every SIMON & SIMON Chinese language course has a highly experienced, multi-lingual Account Manager who oversees it. When your Chinese course starts you will be sent a profile on your trainer, materials for your course and a Course Plan as well as a Progress Report for every 40 hours of training. Breaking the Language Barrier, our quarterly newsletter that you will also receive, contains a prize draw as well as weblinks to a number of learning resources.

The Chinese language courses of SIMON & SIMON have been run in numerous locations. As we have a global network of language trainers your Chinese language course can be arranged in major cities across Europe and further afield. Most of our clients arrange for their Chinese lessons to be run in their offices so that there is less need for travel, but we can also run Chinese lessons in your home. We also run residential full-time Chinese language courses in a variety of locations which our office will be happy to inform you of.

Ashford Chinese Course Schedules

The Chinese language courses in Ashford that we run go on through the year. Each week, most of our students will attend at least one of our 90-minute lessons, but many will do more. We can easily arrange Weekend Courses for you. Chinese courses run from Monday to Friday, any time from 8am to 8pm. Intensive Chinese language courses can be arranged in residential centres abroad or in the UK, or on clients’ premises for 30 hours per week, 6 hours a day Monday to Friday.

Before you start your Chinese language course we will assess your level of Chinese and speak to you about your aims so that your Chinese language course can be customised for you. You may have never been exposed to Chinese before and wish to develop basic survival skills, or you may have some experience and wish to be able to speak more fluently in Chinese when discussing business. You may want to further your ability to use Chinese in negotiations and meetings or better your comprehension and pronunciation abilities. Whatever goals you may have, our experienced Chinese language trainers will tailor your Chinese course so that your goals can be quickly met.

Chinese Language Examination Courses

We are happy to help in your preparation for any Chinese examinations. Our students have a 95% pass rate and we think that their success shows the value of our policy of working with above-average experienced Chinese teachers in Ashford. Issuing of results certificates, registration for Chinese examinations and administration of such exams is also provided by SIMON & SIMON.

The table below is based on recognised language levels used by various academic institutions accross the European Union. A highly motivated student attending weekly sessions with their language trainer can expect to move from one level to another after 50 hours providing they also commit to a similar number of hours of self-study.

Of course, some people find learning languages easier than others, and some students will have more opportunities to practise the language in the course of their work and leisure, so these factors also need to be considered when trying to assess how long it will take to move from one level to another.

Company Funded Training

If your company is thinking of investing in language training our free consultation and demo lesson is a real opportunity to see if SIMON & SIMON is right for you - hundreds of other companies have chosen SIMON & SIMON, so we hope you will join them.

To take up this special offer, please call Cristiana Aragoni, on 020 7931 9869 - quoting "Demo Lesson" - our no-obligation consultation and demo lesson is free of charge.

Self-Funded Training

If you are interested in taking one of our courses as a private individual, then our free demo lessons are a perfect opportunity for you to meet one of our language trainers, experience the teaching methodology firsthand, and for us to assess your level and course needs - all with no obligation.

Demo lessons typically last 1 hour, and take place at our offices in central London, close to Victoria Station.

To take up this special offer, please call Cristiana Aragoni, on 020 7931 9869 - quoting "Demo Lesson" - our no-obligation consultation and demo lesson is free of charge.

Standard Chinese is a standardized form of spoken Chinese, based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin Chinese. Standard Chinese is the official language of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC, also known as Taiwan), as well as one of four official languages of Singapore. It is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. About one-fifth of the world’s population, or over one billion people, speaks some variety of Chinese as their native language. Linguists often view Chinese as a language family, though owing to China's socio-political and cultural situation, and the fact that all spoken varieties use one common written system, it is customary to refer to these generally mutually unintelligible variants as "the Chinese language".

Ashford is a town in the borough of Ashford in Kent, England. In 2005 it was voted the fourth best place to live in the United Kingdom. It lies on the Great Stour river, the M20 motorway, and the South Eastern Main Line and High Speed 1 railways. Its agricultural market is one of the most important in the county. Ashford is a relatively common English place-name: it goes back to Old English æscet, indicating a ford near a clump of ash-trees. As a market town, Ashford has for centuries been a local communications hub for surrounding villages and has stood at the centre of five railway lines, (Ashford to Ramsgate (via Canterbury West) line, Swanley to Ashford (via Maidstone East) Line, South Eastern Main Line, Kent Coast Line and the Marshlink Line) since the 19th century and with the opening of the International Passenger Station is now an important European communications centre, with new lines running between London and the Channel Tunnel (via High Speed 1).