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The
following courses are offered at Ottawa Chinese Language Learning
Centre (OCLLC). All of the courses are designed for adults and
children who
have different Chinese levels, ranging from beginners to advanced
learners.
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| Courses for Adults |
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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Conversational
Chinese, Intermediate Level
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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Conversational
Chinese, Advanced Level
This course deals with more complicated situational
conversations. It is
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 is 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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All-in-One Chinese, Intermediate Level
This
course is 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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All-in-One Chinese, Advanced Level
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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| Courses for Children |
Junior Class
This course is for the children who have either a little or no ability
to speak and understand Chinese (Mandarin). While providing fun
atmosphere in the class, we will create a large number of opportunities
for every student to speak standard Chinese, help enhance their
abilities of Chinese listening, speaking, reading and writing by
teaching with fun and easy-to-learn materials, games and videos.
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Senior Class
This course was designed for children who are able to speak and understand some daily Chinese. The class will be full of fun and practical
materials, games and movies. By focusing mainly on practicing and
improving oral Chinese (Mandarin), students will also have plenty of
time to improve their reading and writing skills and Pin-Yin. |
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