TLI - The Mandarin School understands that you need to speak Mandarin accurately for your business to be successful - and you need to learn it in a condensed period of time.
Our school is unique in Toronto.
We are the only branch of TLI in Canada – we use their proprietary curriculum, materials and teaching methodology. TLI - The Mandarin School in Toronto teaches Mainland Standard Chinese pronunciation and grammar. In Toronto, our clients include executives and entrepreneurs from the financial, travel & hospitality, management consulting, accounting, pharmaceutical, retail, medical, government and trade industries.
We specialize in meeting western adults’ unique needs in learning Mandarin Chinese. As such, our language programs eschew an academic approach and focuses on the bottom line: by using our highly effective teaching methodology (developed and refined over 50 years) students can be speaking Mandarin with confidence within a matter of months.
TLI - The Mandarin School's founder, Carla Kearns, is proud to partner with TLI to provide the best possible Mandarin Chinese curriculum for the students of TLI - The Mandarin School.
TLI has developed a unique methodology and training materials for teaching the Mandarin Chinese language. At TLI-The Mandarin School in Toronto, we teach Mainland China standard putonghua; using pinyin and simplified characters. Here's why our language programs are effective (click here for China - North America business intercultural training programs):
You have unique needs learning to speak Mandarin as an adult. Our proprietary Mandarin Chinese curriculum and teaching methodology was designed and refined to address those needs. Students at TLI-The Mandarin School progress through a systematic curriculum that constantly reinforces what you've learned and build upon that foundation, as opposed to teaching by rote memorization.
Your time is valuable and you need results. Linguists say that it takes an English speaker 2,000 hours to be come fluent and literate in Mandarin Chinese using traditional methods. Over the 53 years that TLI has developed and refined its world-renown Mandarin teaching curriculum, we have demonstrated that our students become literate and fluent in approximately 900 hours. No matter whether you are studying for fluency, or simply conversational Mandarin in social situations, you will achieve your goals faster. Additionally, our up-to-date textbooks focus on today’s practical needs of communication and feature simplified characters and pinyin (Mainland China standard).
Learning to communicate in Mandarin requires individual feedback from an experienced teacher. The tonal nature of Mandarin Chinese makes it virtually impossible to learn to speak Mandarin in a large class environment or from CDs. To effectively speak, students require specific feedback on where, and how, they need to improve. Our very small Mandarin group class sizes and highly experienced, native Mandarin-speaking instructors ensure each individual steadily improves.
You are in good company. In Canada, TLI-The Mandarin School has taught executives and staff teams to speak Mandarin from The Hudson’s Bay Company, The Home Depot, The Canada China Business Council, TD Financial Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers, The Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership Cooperation, Scotia Bank, Canadian Tire, Maple Leaf Foods and CBC; as well as numerous trade, investing, small business organizations and senior provincial government officials. Additionally, TLI-The Mandarin School keeps its clients connected with China-related business reports and events.
We focus on your needs. Whether it is teaching on site at your company, accommodating your irregular travel schedule, providing you with individual feedback to improve your Mandarin, or giving you a wide range of options to study during the day - our clients' needs are top priority for us.
Read what our graduates say about our programs.
Taipei Language Institute (TLI) was founded in 1956. Today, TLI is recognized as a leader and pioneer in the industry of language instruction, with dozens of branches across the world, including Toronto, San Francisco, Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Suzhou, Dalian and Guangzhou. Over the last 53 years, more than 200 000 students across the world have trained with TLI in fields of business, politics, academic life, journalism, trade, law and finance.
184 Pearl St
Suite 201
Toronto, Ontario ON M5H
Canada
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