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The following courses are offered at Ottawa Chinese Language
Learning Centre (OCLLC). All of the courses were designed for adults
and children who have different Chinese levels, ranging from beginners
to advanced level.
Regular Courses:
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Beginners' Crash Course: Chinese 101
The Crash Course is a conversational course. It is designed to help
BEGINNERS speak and understand Mandarin as much as possible. It is
suitable for beginners, especially for travellers, businessmen,
visitors, and exchange students. Two of the most important features of
this course are as follows:
- Diversity of Topics: We will deal with a
wide range of topics and practical situations in Chinese, in order for
students to be able to make practical and situational conversations in
Mandarin.
- Intensive Training: In class, every student
will get substantial chance to speak and interact with the teacher in
Chinese.
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Conversational Chinese for Beginners
This course will teach basic yet very practical conversations, along
with essential skills to use Pin-Yin, a powerful tool for
self-teaching. It contains the simplest and the most practical lessons,
specifically designed for beginners who have either a little or no
experience in learning Chinese before. Through the lessons, students
will learn about 200 typical and situational sentence patterns, which
can be extended to thousands of different sentences with simple but
very useful words or characters for daily conversation. This course
aims at a fastest way to speak and understand Chinese (Mandarin).
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Intermediate Conversational Chinese
If you already have some very basic knowledge with Chinese
conversation, and plan to improve it to a higher level, this course is
right for you. By focusing on everyday conversational Chinese, students
will be able to speak more complicated sentences and express in Chinese
more accurately. These lessons will enable you to use PinYin with no
difficulties for self-teaching. You will learn about 300 typical and
daily patterns, which can be extended to thousands of different
sentences used in school, travel, work and business.
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Advanced Conversational Chinese
This course deals with more complicated
situational conversations. It was designed to help learn more words and
patterns, in order for students to freely express what you want in
daily life, school, travel, work and business. The lessons will enable
students to speak and understand about 400 practical and complicated
sentence patterns, which help students accurately express themselves.
This course will provide students with strong confidence to communicate
with Chinese (Mandarin) speaking people anywhere in the world.
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All-in-One Chinese for Beginners
This course was designed for beginners. It places emphasis on all four
skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) and incorporates into
our teaching materials with detailed grammar, while speaking and
listening skills will be intensively trained. Our unique teaching
materials will enable you to use PinYin (or Pin-Yin), the most powerful
tool for self-learning, while learning the four skills with fun and
confidence. You can also make, speak and understand thousands of
different situational conversations. In the meantime, you will be able
to read and write basic and very useful simplified Chinese characters,
including sentences.
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Intermediate All-in-One Chinese
This course was designed for students who have
learned about 100 - 200 Chinese characters and wish to improve their
language skills to a higher level. While putting oral Chinese (i.e.
listening and speaking) in the most important place, reading and
writing skills will also be significantly improved. Our
state-of-the-art teaching materials and styles will enable students to
grasp the top 600 most frequently used Chinese characters and hundreds
of everyday sentence patterns, which will allow students to understand
about 80% of the content (on average) in modern Chinese publications.
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Advanced All-in-One Chinese
While consolidating the four language skills
(listening, speaking, reading and writing), this course emphasizes a
wide range of application of the four skills, such as complicated
situational conversation, newspaper reading, and letter and note
writing. Through our state-of-the-art teaching materials and styles,
students can grasp the top 1,000 most frequently used Chinese
characters and hundreds of everyday sentence patterns, and understand
about 90% of the content (on average) in general Chinese publications.
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Children's Courses:
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Play N' Learn Chinese: Junior Class
Early childhood is the ideal time to learn new things, and learning a
language is a very natural development at this age. This course is
designed for children who are novice in Chinese (Mandarin) in order to give
them the best opportunity to develop their basic Chinese language
skills. In a child-friendly learning environment, students learn
standard Chinese while playing, singing and drawing. The “Play N'
Learn” approach can make every single lesson full of fun and
learning activities. With focus on oral Chinese, basic writing skills
are also taught as part of this course in order for students to get a
sense of written Chinese.
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Play N' Learn Chinese: Senior Class
This course is designed for children who are able to speak and
understand some daily Chinese. The class will be full of fun and games
and stories suitable for children. By focusing mainly on practicing and
improving oral Chinese (Mandarin), students will also have plenty of
time to improve their reading and writing skills.
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