New Concept Mandarin (NCM) is a German owned company established in Hong Kong in 2000 by linguistic experts and University Professors from Australia and China. The NCM teaching methodology is based on University research in Western countries and China into how Western people most effectively learn Mandarin. NCM has training centers in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Guangzhou, Suzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai, Beijing, the Philippines and Singapore. NCM combines its proven classroom training methods with CD-Rom and Online courses to maximize learning results.

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English may be the most commonly used second language across the world today but by 2050, Putonghua (or Mandarin) could become the favourite vernacular of the 15-24-year age group. No less than the prestigious Science magazine has said so in a 2004 study. inteviewed by China Daily

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Skilled teachers are the key to language acquisition, writes Lisa Stones

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime" -- Chinese proverb

"Consider a language ... language serves to describe combinations of coloured squares on a surface. The squares form a complex like a chessboard. There are red, green, white and black squares. The words of the language are 'red', 'green', 'white', 'black', and a sentence is a series of these words. They describe an arrangement of squares in an order."