In this webinar, participants learned the basics of business Mandarin terminology and the interconnection between Chinese culture and language.<\/p>\n
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Nelson Mandela once said: \u201cIf you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.\u201d<\/p>\n
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This is especially true in China, where relationships are considered essential to doing business. In this webinar, Lauren Liu, an instructor at the Toronto Mandarin School who has been teaching Mandarin for over 11 years, explained why it\u2019s important to know a few key phrases and what it means to have a Chinese name when doing business in China. Lauren has a wealth of experience teaching business and cultural training to companies like Shopify, Pepsico, and KPMG.<\/p>\n
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Laura Markle, CCBC\u2019s Atlantic Chapter Director, moderated the session and also provided her personal experience as a Canadian who studied Mandarin full-time when she lived in Beijing.<\/p>\n
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This session was free of charge for CCBC members, C$25+HST for non-members.<\/p>\n
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Webinar Series Sponsor\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The link to the video presentation is available upon request. Please contact your regional Chapter Director to request access:<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2022 Atlantic: Laura Markle<\/a><\/strong> \u2022 Beijing: Noah Fraser<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 Shanghai: Edward Dai<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n About the Speaker<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lauren Liu<\/strong> <\/p>\n Lauren (LIU Laoshi) has been teaching Chinese as a foreign language for over 10 years in the Greater Toronto Area to students of all levels and cultural backgrounds. With over 12,000 hours of in-person teaching and over 1,500 hours of online teaching (since March 2020), she finds passion in sharing not just the Chinese language with her students, but the culture and stories behind the language as a whole. She emphasizes interaction as both the means and the ultimate goal of teaching and learning, and is highly inspired and loves the cultural exchanges in her class.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n She specializes in teaching Business Chinese and is the author of the textbooks \u201cSpeak Chinese: Basic to Business\u201d (2019) and \u201cSpeak Chinese with Confidence\u201d (2021). Her students are from different sectors and industries across Canada. She works with them to customize relevant and fun lessons to meet their immediate learning needs and goals.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In her work, she aims to assist business professionals in corporate, government and non-profit organizations to bridge the language and cultural barriers, and engage in more effective and productive interactions and relationships with Chinese-speaking counterparts.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n CCBC\u2019s China Ready Series Second Edition schedule and topics* to be covered include:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n *Program and dates are subject to change\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_gallery gallery_ids=”56885,56894,56891,56888″ posts_number=”5″ show_title_and_caption=”off” show_pagination=”off” zoom_icon_color=”#e3002b” disabled_on=”off|off|off” _builder_version=”4.9.4″ pagination_font_size_tablet=”51″ pagination_line_height_tablet=”2″][\/et_pb_gallery][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Introduced in 2020, CCBC is pl […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1485,"featured_media":56888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ccbc-past-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccbc.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccbc.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccbc.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccbc.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1485"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccbc.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56856"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ccbc.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57305,"href":"https:\/\/ccbc.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56856\/revisions\/57305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccbc.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccbc.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccbc.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccbc.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ccbc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Trustiics_Logo_Final_Pos-300x100.jpg\"){kind=logo}
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\u2022 Quebec: Philippe Jeanneau<\/a><\/strong>
\u2022 Ontario: Jeff Zhang<\/a><\/strong>
\u2022 Prairies: Philippe Jeanneau<\/a><\/strong>
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