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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:
Crash Course: Chinese 101
The most important features of this course are as follows:
- Intensive Lessons: 3 hours a day and 2 days a week;
- Intensive Training: In class, every student will get substantial chance to speak and interact with teacher in Chinese.
- Wide Range 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 with Chinese people.
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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:
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 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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