Course description
Whether is an intensive one-to-one Malay course at our London training centre you are looking for or an in-company Malay course at your offices, Communicaid can provide you and your organisation with a language course that meets your needs. With training centres in London, Paris, Frankfurt and New York providing countrywide coverage and partner organisations worldwide, Communicaid is uniquely placed to be your local, national and international training partner for Malay courses.
Why a Malay course in London? Our Malay courses are highly personalised and designed to improve your Malay communication skills, whether your focus is social, business, financial, diplomatic or legal. Upon completion of a Malay course with Communicaid here in London, you will have the confidence to communicate in Malay with colleagues, clients and suppliers.
Location: In addition to our Malay courses in London, we are also able to provide Malay language training courses worldwide via our training centres and global partners.
Benefits
A Communicaid Malay course will provide you with the ability to:
- Interact with more confidence when visiting a Malay-speaking region or dealing
with Malay speakers
- Build rapport and strengthen relationships with Malay-speaking colleagues hrough
a show of interest in Malay language and culture
- Demonstrate goodwill and facilitate international communication at both a personal and
organisational level
Who should attend
A Communicaid Malay course is suitable for:
- Anyone planning to relocate to a Malaysia, Brunei or Singapore and wishing to attend a
Malay course in order to prepare in advance for their assignment
- Business professionals conducting business regularly with Malay-speaking
contacts who wish to build rapport and strengthen relationships by attending a Malay course
- Government and non-governmental agency representatives working in a Malay-speaking
region who need to be able to communicate at all levels
Course content
The content and format of your Malay course will depend on your profession, proficiency in Malay and objectives. Whether beginner, survival, intermediate or advanced, key areas covered in all our Malaysian courses include:
- Speaking skills development
- Listening comprehension skills
- Reading comprehension skills
- Telephone skills in Malay
- Email skills in Malay
- Sector-specific terminology
- Presentation & negotiation skills
Approach
Communicaid’s Malay courses are available seven days a week, 365 days a year. Training takes place between 08:00 and 20:00 although courses are also available outside of these hours upon request.
Suitable tailored and published Malay course materials will be used throughout, with recommendations on self-study material and extra reading made at the beginning and during your Malay course.
We offer a variety of training formats for your Malay course – from intensive, weeklong courses to extensive, modular lessons. Appropriate formats will be discussed during your diagnostic consultancy (please click here to read more about our approach).
Malay course trainer
All Communicaid Malay trainers are native speakers with at least 3 years’ professional Malay training experience. In addition to relevant academic and linguistic qualifications and experience, many of our Malay trainers also possess considerable exposure and expertise in the professional world.
Your Malay trainer will be assigned to you following the results of your diagnostic consultancy according to your objectives and areas of focus. Detailed below is a sample profile of a member of our Malay training team.
Bahasa Malaysia– Facts about the Malay language
Malay, or Bahasa Melayu or Bahasa Malaysia, as it is known to Malay speakers, is the official language of Malaysia and Brunei. It also shares official status in Singapore. Speakers of Malay can be found also in regions in southern Thailand and southern Philippines as well as parts of Indonesia. It is also spoken in East Timor. It is estimated that between 20 and 40 million people speak Malay as a first language worldwide.
Malay belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian group of languages which stems from the Austronesian family of languages. It is closely related to Bahasa Indonesia that was originally a variant of Malay adopted by the Indonesian government. The two languages are mutually intelligible; the main differences between the two languages essentially being in pronunciation, spelling and vocabulary. Conversely, differences between the various Malay dialects are often not mutually intelligible. Examples of such instances include: The Kelantanese dialect that has pronunciation that is difficult for some Malaysians to understand and the language spoken by the Peranakan (Straits Chinese, a hybrid of Chinese settlers and local Malays) that is a unique mixture of Malay and the Chinese dialect of Hokkien.
Malay is written using the Latin alphabet.
