Chinese Courses for Business in Harrogate

Many professionals in companies across the UK, as well as private individuals, have benefited from an Chinese Language Course with SIMON & SIMON. We have a terrific team of qualified native-speaker Chinese teachers, and with an average of 15 years' experience they will ensure you benefit from a course designed specifically around your needs, whether you are a complete beginner or an advanced learner with more specialised requirements. We consistently receive excellent feedback on our Chinese tutors from our clients, and we send our students a profile on their Chinese tutor prior to their Chinese lessons commencing, with information on the tutor's background and experience.

Maybe your only knowledge of studying languages is what you remember from school. Modern language teaching has recently changed to be much more entertaining and rewarding. Your Chinese lessons in Harrogate will be carried out almost completely in Chinese. This is the Communicative Approach and by this method you will notice progress from the initial lesson. You will soon feel confident and able to use Chinese to communicate in various business and social situations.

Both 1:1 and group formats are available for our Chinese language courses. While most of our clients offer 1:1 Chinese training, the group format can offer great value for money. If you want groups to be successful, the members must commit to the weekly meetings and we recommend keeping the number of participants below 7. Progress is faster for those who learn Chinese in Harrogate on a 1:1 basis as the lessons are individually tailored for their particular needs, strengths and weaknesses.

Chinese Course Management

One of our highly experienced, multilingual Account managers oversees each SIMON & SIMON Chinese language course. On starting your Chinese course you will receive various materials including a profile on your trainer, a Course Plan and course materials and a Progress Report on every 40 hours of your training. Breaking the Language Barrier, our quarterly newsletter, which contains weblinks to various language learning sources and a prize draw, will also be sent to you.

Chinese language courses have been run by SIMON & SIMON in many locations. Our global network of language trainers means that any major city in the UK Europe, and beyond can hold your Chinese language course. We can arrange your Chinese language lessons for your own home, but many of our clients like to run them in their offices so as to minimise travel. Residential full-time Chinese language courses are also available. Our office can discuss available locations with you.

Harrogate Chinese Course Schedules

We run our Chinese language courses in Harrogate all through the year. Many of our students, if work commitments allow, will attend more than one session weekly, and the vast majority take part in at least one 90-minute lesson weekly. We also arrange weekend Chinese courses on request. Our Chinese programs commence from 8am to 8pm Monday to Friday. Intensive 30 hour per week Chinese language courses, held on clients’ premises or at residential centres in the UK or abroad, are also available on a 6 hours per day basis, Monday through Friday.

Whatever your personal level of experience and future goals, your Chinese course will be customised for you. Before you start the course we will assess your level of Chinese and discuss in detail what you would like to focus on. You may desire simply to gain everyday Chinese skills from the level of a complete beginner, or you may have more experience in Chinese and want to improve your ability to discuss banking, finance or marketing. You may want to develop improved pronunciation and comprehension skills or improve your Chinese for use in negotiations and meetings. Whatever your goals and needs, our highly experienced Chinese language trainers will tailor your Chinese course so that your goals will be met quickly.

Chinese Language Examination Courses

If you are taking a Chinese examination, for business or other reasons, we are happy to help you with your preparations. We are very proud of the 95% pass rate of our students in language examinations. We believe this highlights the value of working with Chinese teachers in Harrogate whose experience is above average. SIMON & SIMON can also register you for your Chinese examination, administer the examination and issue you your results.

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".

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