Saturday, March 14, 2009

I survived Business Mandarin Level 1 ..YooHoo !

Yup, after 5 weeks of rushing down to 新加坡中华总商管理学院for evening classes twice a week, I have Finally completed Module 1 of Business Mandarin !为我的成就而骄傲!hehehe

On reflection, I really did enjoy myself tremendously (imagine, I did not even skip a single class and we are talking abt my most hatred subject in sch ! *gasp*) and it helped that the teacher and classmates were such a fun loving bunch so lessons flew by with all that fun and laughter in class.

I can't say that I am proficient to converse in Mandarin now but at the very least, I am a lot more confident of business terms (surprisingly I could actually recognise a lot of the terms though my writing sucks..hahaha) and have a deeper understanding of the Business Culture & Etiquette in China.


So here's the course content:

  • Meet people and Introduction (Super tongue tight man )
  • Meet client and Arrange entertainment ( 董,总,秘书长,省长etc baffles me)
  • Basic Banquet Etiquette and Convention (My Fav!!敬词,劝酒)
  • Schedule and Gift (送礼 is an art)
  • Deal with the Differences, Choose the Topic carefully
  • Recruitment
  • Presentation and Application of Numbers (十百千万亿兆)
  • Phone Call, E-mail and Official Document

Out of my class of 12 participants, almost 75% of them will probably continue with Module 2 which starts next week.

For me, though I would love to join them, I think I really need to revise and brush up on my Chinese first cos Module 2 requires a lot more writing and reading...= (

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