New summer course: practical Chinese

"Start Working in Chinese" (intermediate)

Speaking

About this course

Themed "Start Working in Chinese", this course focuses on enhancing your speaking, listening, reading and writing in the business or workplace context. The teaching style is highly engaging and interactive, consolidating your basics for any future learning.

Who is this for?

  • Any learners who have mastered about 600 to 800 words and are able to recognise/read about 800 characters or more. Good for either university students or professionals and business people who have completed elementary level Mandarin
  • LSE CIBL students who have completed Pre-intermediate 2 or 3  (12-week short course).
  • LSE Language Centre students have completed Level 5 (LN719).

Key facts

key facts

Level

Intermediate

Duration 

10 weeks

Start date

21 May 2019

End date

23 July 2019

Payment deadline

13 May 2019

Day

Tuesday

Time

18:30 - 20:30

Programme fee

£350 (all non-LSE applicants) / £175 (LSE students)

Location

LSE campus (room to be released)

Course objectives

  • To enable you to communicate in Mandarin in the workplace and business context
  • To improve your listening and speaking, as well as reading and writing
  • To improve your speaking fluency and quality
  • To expose you to workplace/business communications
  • To equip you with expressions appropriate in relatively formal business/workplace environment
  • To consolidate your basic skills and vocabulary to better your future learning

Key topics

  • Receiving and seeing off an important visitor
  • Giving a short welcoming speech
  • Responding to a formal welcoming talk
  • Attending a work banquet
  • Joining a new company/team and welcoming a new member

How to apply (non-LSE applicants)

  • Follow this link to the LSE e-shop
  • Follow the rest of the online instructions to complete the process
  • Forward the automatically generated payment confirmation form together with your course code “19SBEG” as your email subject  to confucius.business@lse.ac.uk.

How to apply (LSE students)

Reference book

Reference textbook: "Better Chinese, Better Business vol 1." by Hong Zhou, Weiling Wang, 2011, Foreign Language Press.

*You will have printed handouts each week based on the content of each session. It is not mandatory to purchase these textbooks but you are welcome to for your own reference.