Courses list

Cantonese

Conversational Cantonese for Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

This course focuses on communication. It includes 15 lessons covering topics such as shopping, meeting people, interests and leisure activities, telling the time, how to read and ask for prices, and ordering food.

Mandarin

Special Courses in PCLC

Essential Chinese Language -- Beginner and Intermediate Levels

It includes such things as greetings, invitations, making an appointment, and ordering food. It will also cover tourist phrases.

Materials fee $18.00

Chinese Language and Culture ----- Beginner

You will learn 100 useful Mandarin sentences and some basic Chinese culture.

Materials fee $10.00

Business Chinese Language and Culture ------ Beginner and Intermediate Levels

This course is suitable for people who are going to or would like to do business with Chinese people. You will learn the most important 100 sentences and culture issues in business.

Materials fee $12.00

Office Chinese Language and Culture ------ Beginner and Intermediate Levels

This course is suitable for people who are going to or would like to do business with Chinese people. It focuses on daily office communications and the use of names and titles. Materials fee $10.00

2008 Beijing Olympics Chinese Language and Culture ------ Beginner

This course is suitable for tourists, athletes and those who love traveling and sports. It focuses on tourist and sports Chinese.

Materials fee $18.00

Chinese Culture

This course includes eight parts:

The ABC of Traditional Chinese Calligraphy and Painting, Paper-Cutting for Beginners, Basic Chinese Martial Arts, Cooking Chinese Dishes, How to Sing Chinese Songs, Tourist Highlights in China and Native Produce of China .

For Kids

Chinese for kids Beginner Level 1, Level 2

A creative way to learn Chinese. It includes Chinese Pinyin (phonetic alphabetic), a child's way of daily communication at home and school. Children will also learn Chinese songs, games, writing calligraphy and characters in this course. After level 1, children will have a half-day tour to visit Chinatown, practice Chinese and experience Chinese culture.

For Adults

Conversational Chinese Intermediate Level

It focuses on the ability of the learner to use Chinese for communication. You will learn the most essential and useful part of the language in daily life.

Mandarin Chinese Language for Beginner Level 1, Beginner Level 2, Intermediate Level

You will learn some very basic Chinese by speaking, listening, writing and reading. It also includes learning Chinese pronunciation. This is the first step to take for people who do not have any Chinese language background.

Tourist Chinese for all levels

Are you planning for a tour to China? If you are, this course is especially useful for you. It covers Chinese pronunciation of everyday phrases, simple situational communication, and commonly used vocabulary, progressing step by step.

Improvement / Refresher

Chinese grammar for all levels

This course focuses on grammar. It is suitable for those people who want to speak Chinese correctly.

Advanced Chinese Listening and Speaking

This course is to help those students in advanced level to improve listening comprehension and speaking ability.

Native Chinese pronunciation

Learn native Chinese pronunciation from an experienced, native Mandarin Instructor. After this course, the students will master native Chinese pronunciation.

Chinese characters for Beginners and Intermediate Level

Do you feel it is difficult to read or memorize 1000 most useful Chinese characters? After this course, you will get the training needed to better understand how to make sense out of this writing system.

Business

Business Chinese Basic

Learn basic business Chinese sentences and terms. It includes learning the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet which is the best way to learn Chinese pronunciation. Emphasis is on basic communication in the business field, but you will also learn some rules to write characters.

Business Chinese: intermediate

This course continues where the first course left off. It focuses on daily business communication. After this course, the learners will be able to understand the essentials of Chinese business communication, including terms involving trade, investment, cooperation and management of the enterprises .

Business Chinese: advanced