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Influence of TLI in Chinese learning industry

• Established a standard in Chinese teaching

  TLI was founded by the "Father of Chinese Teaching", Dr. Marvin Ho. He dedicated his life in Chinese teaching and promoting of Chinese culture, and he also wrote Modern Chinese Cross-Strait Dictionary. He created the standard in Chinese learning as well as the proprietary TLI teaching materials, teaching method, and professional teacher training programs renowned in the world.

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• Specialized in one on one customized service

  TLI has strived in specializing customized language teaching service. With a student-centered approach, we have developed over 200 different types of teaching materials with over 500 volumes of texts on various topics including lifestyle, culture, business, news, technology, medicine, politics, finance, travel, public speaking, interpreting, and children's Chinese.

• Globally recognized teaching ability

  Invited by Governor Steve Cowper of Alaska, USA, TLI helped Alaska Pacific University establish its Chinese language department, and it also helped Wesleyan University, Whittier College, and University of Delhi establish their Chinese department and become partner schools; helped Yale University in Chinese teacher training and developing of Chinese teaching materials in different levels; signed an agreement with University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University on language credit exchange; co-developed Modern Chinese Cross-Strait Dictionary with Beijing Language and Culture University and hosted the Cross-Strait Chinese Language Collaborative Study Seminar together.

• Designated brand for embassies, diplomats, and Fortune 500s

  TLI has maintained several decades of relationship with embassies and representative offices all over the world, including the Foreign Service Institute(FSI), US Department of State, AIT, Embassy of the United States, Beijing, representative offices in England, Canada, France, and Germany, and embassies and representative offices in Spain, and Israel, and TLI has always been the designated language training institute for executives and professionals of corporate clients, including American Express, HP, IBM, Intel, Galeries Lafayette, LVMH, Bayer, Siemens, BP, Credit Suisse, Samsung, LG, Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Itochu, Sumitomo, Toyota, and Honda.

• Trusted by Leaders around the world

  For over 60 years, TLI has trained over 400,000 alumni, many of which have become key government officials in different countries, Chinese diplomats, senators, or leaders in fields like academic education, media, religion, etc., most notably, Former Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, Former President of the Republic of China, Ma Ying-jeou, The Pulitzer Prize winner, Nicholas Kristof, and Harvard University Professor, sinologist, historian, and founder of Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, John King Fairbank, to name a few.

• Professional Chinese Proficiency Test (CPT) Certificate

  Since 1980, international corporations have requested TLI to conduct TLI-CPT tests in TLI centers around the world; tens of thousands of students have been tested in European, American, and Asian regions.