For your professional career
- China is a one of the world’s biggest economic powers, second only to the United States. The Chinese market is fast developing, with a current economic annual growth rate superior to 7%. China is fast becoming an essential key figure in the world economy.
- Demand for experienced professionals speaking Chinese is ever increasing. A base level of Chinese will open many opportunities. Learning Chinese as a foreign language is a passport to your future.
For cultural interest and personal development
- Chinese classes will allow you to take steps into understanding both Chinese language and culture. It is also another way of thinking, a new philosophy to discover, an entirely new way to see the world. The study of Chinese is also a way to hone visual memory.
- Chinese is no so difficult as some would have you believe! Welcome to a language free from verb declination, or of gender or quantity indicators for nouns.
- The writing system in Chinese and the pronunciation of sets of vowel sounds form the basis of learning Chinese. Written Chinese, complex and beautiful to the unfamiliar eye, is greatly simplified through an etymological breakdown of the visual characters.