A Surprising Enquiry

Language-related business seems to be whatOrientrue is destinied. When we were approached by one of our consultingbusiness clients for recommendation of a qualified Chinese language tuitor, wesimply took it as a joke until we received a call for our schedule of offerlater on. As we offered our business consultation based on communicationtechniques to optimize business information flow, we do have to cater for thelanguage aspects our clients, but direct teaching a language were beyond ourinitial business plan. Why our client wanted us to recommend a Chinese tutor?The reason lay in quite some expatriates working with our client failed tospeak any Chinese after spending quite some allowance on Chinese tuition.

SurprisingFindings

While we studied the materials from theirtutors and learned how they were taught, we,with support from severallinguists, gradually found out quite some pitfalls in Chinese learning withoutinspired guidance. Such pitfalls can be appalling to everyone, even a nativeChinese speakers. Let's look at the examples:

If you are using a western phonetic system,you can put a consonant and a vowel together simply by reading it faster, butthis is not the case for quite of Chinese phonetic system (Piyin). If you knowsome Pinyin, try the following without cheating yourself: "wo shi" (Iam) or "zhi shi" (Knowledge).

If you are using the part of speech to helpyou to organize a sentence, you can be guided by the immediate analysisprincples as structural grammarist pointed, but it works to quite some limitwhen you do it with Chinese. Try "We are in a park." "I amhappy."You will surely be puzzle if "in" and "happy"are verbs in Chinese.

Visual Grammar

After years of research, we have developeda set of linguistic tools to facilitate the learning of Chinese, English, andother languages. The application of these rules has been proven successful.With visualization tools, Visual Grammar imbues the grammatic rules withoutrecourse to abstract concepts at the starting point.

Multidisplinary Programs

At the beginning of the last decade, ourconsulting team embarked on research to incorporate linguistics, psychology,and sociology with the hope of creating a more effective consulting model. Thisidea was further developed into several applications in both the businesscommunication field and the linguistic development approach to personaldevelopment. With our unique approach, we have been integrating knowledge andskills from various fields to develop multidisciplinary programs. Our programscater to different target groups, ranging from Chinese learners to Englishlearners and from young kids to adults, encompassing academia and businesses.