Cd A GLOBAL LANGUAGE CENTRE THE PRESIDENTS DESK Spending the prime stage of my life abroad for 32 years and mastering more than 3 foreign languages, after I came back to my mother-land for good, the idea and necessity of imparting foreign languages to my fellow brothers and sisters erupted in my mind. With this dream I opened Cucchiaio d Argento ie. CdA Global Language Centre on19th November 2010, in Salt Lake, Kolkata. The Centre has got its affiliation from Alliance Francaise Du Bengale and Netaji Subhas Open University. Remember, the world is evolving and becoming more sophisticated. Therefore, we must also evolve and cope up with today s cultural demand. In a span of six years more than 4560 students have successfully completed their course and at present we have 600 students. Rich pool of qualified faculty members are being recruited from authentic sources after proper screening. The management of CdA are constantly trying and endeavoring to make the CdA Centre a centre per excellence. Their efforts have not gone in vain. We can proudly claim this is the best destination for foreign languages training in Kolkata. Apart from imparting foreign languages Indian regional languages are also introduced from this year. CdA Centre helps people to realize their dreams and in a way help them with good job opportunities. Welcome to the world of CdA and taste the various flavors of languages served on its platter. Minoti Mukherjee Founder Director
I wish CdA Centre a very successful and bright future. May its name be written in golden letters in the history of foreign language centre. Happy at its rapid growth, name and fame. Do introduce regional languages and add another feather to your cap. Shanka Ghosh Our Astonishing Faculty Our Faculty members serve as mentors to our students by guiding them through their linguistics studies. When we tell people that we study the role of communication in teaching and learning, the most common response is: Isn t communication just common sense? we an expert in what I teach; why do we need to worry about how we communicate? In reality, communication is a learned verbal and nonverbal skill that all of us must continually refine. When we interact with our students purposefully, we maximize the chances that our content expertise will make a positive difference in terms of their learning. We use a range of communication strategies for helping students learn. Although we would like to tell you that there is a clear list that says do this and don t do that, communicating with students is not that straightforward. Being good at it requires a high level of communication competence an awareness of what s appropriate for the situation, the skills to perform that way, and the motivation to do so. Our faculty helps students to build communication awareness so that they learn effectively. Communicating with clarity One type of communication is aimed at ensuring students attainment of academic goals related to our content (e.g., information acquisition, understanding, critical thinking). One way we accomplish these rhetorical instructional goals is by being as clear as possible. This includes strategically, clearly, and logically organizing material; communicating expectations; explaining concepts; giving examples and feedback; asking questions; and responding to students inquiries. Clarity is important teacher communication behaviour and our faculty ensures to be as clear as possible till the student gets it right. Building positive relationships A second set of communication behaviours that our faculty use to help them build positive relationships with students. Relational messages show students we care about them and help us establish closeness. They smile, make eye contact, move around the room, avoid standing behind podiums, gesture, call students by name, use personal examples, allow some off-task conversation and small talk, are appropriately funny, and encourage students to talk with them and one another. Further, good teachers confirm students. In many ways, we tell students we value them, their ideas, and their contributions. In addition to our existing faculty, we have some who have recently joined us this year, namely: Ms. Sreemoyee Ganguly - Mr. Sunil Kumar Mr. Te Hao (Clement) Tseng - Mr. Shamb Dutta Mr. Shudip Chatterjee Spanish Chinese Chinese German Spanish
AIMS & OBJECTIVES Learn Foreign Language With Specific Objectives: For Tourism For Hotel & Restaurant For Business & Corporate Courses For Technical & Scientific Purposes To Improve Writing Skills To Participate in Conversation Workshop Interpreter and Translator Professional teacher The proficiency in multiple foreign languages is a basic prerequisite for successful communication in the tourism industry, as well as for mutual understanding among students involved in the exchange programs with different universities, especially in foreign countries. In this regard, tourism and mobility play a significant role, while intercultural contacts contribute to the development of intercultural dialogue Career in 5 star hotels is the most lucrative offer. Restaurants and hotels are the booming industries. Nowadays, people donot restrict themselves to one cuisine. they love to experiment with different types of cuisines. With cross cultural and bilateral relations with other countries knowing a foreign language has become a necessity. Multinational companies regularly require interpreters and translators. Most of the gadgets and machines are from German, Japan and so on. The instructions are in the said languages, so know the language, it will be hassle free. Visit a foreign country know the language and participate in their programes and communicate and feel one with them. The language of love and reason First and foremost, learning French is the pleasure of learning a beautiful, rich, melodious language, often called the language of love. French is also an analytical language that structures thought and develops critical thinking, which is a valuable skill for discussions and negotiations.
TRANSLATORS & INTERPRETERS Call CdA Centre the best translators and interpreters are at your door to do the work in a lucid clear way, without any hassles, at a reasonable price. The right translations and interpretations can help enhance an individual in comprehending, managing and in clearing the doubts, to face the international and domestic language barriers. Associates: Interpreters/Translators
Mr Damiano Francovigh Consul General of Italy s visit to CdA Global Language Centre, Salt Lake A glorious day in the history of CdA Global Language Centre. The Consul General of Italy, Mr. Damiano Francovigh has visited the CdA Centre on Tuesday 28 June 2016 at 2pm. He was given a red carpet welcome. President Ms. Minoti Mukherjee gave him a warm welcome with a bouquet of exotic flowers and a souvenir. Most of the faculties, few students and staffs were present. A warm welcome speech greeted him as soon as he entered the room. It was an interactive session between our Indian students learning Italian language, the students conversed with him in fluent Italian language, moreover, Italian couple who are learning Bengali lessons here at CdA Centre, too, talked to him and given a short speech in Bengali. It was magficent cross cultural exchange and an enjoyable filled day. The Consul General was happy. He assured that he would try to help and support in every possible means if possible. On his way back, he made time to visit the other branch of CdA Centre at CJ- 13. He was impressed with the growth of CdA Centre- it s endeavour to provide the quality and the best services to both our country men and foreigners. CdA Centre is serving as a bridge to gap the cultural and linguistic differences.
Our New Branch We are proud to announce that we now have a new branch at CJ-13, Salt Lake, Kolkata. This adds four large classrooms, a board room and a hall dedicated for our foreign language film festival. Charity by Cd A Centre at various places
Our Faculty Our Strength Shankar Mukherjee (German Faculty) The class on the first day is full and the teacher is over the moon. Thirty cheerful faces look up to the teacher with lot of expectation and their enthusiasm and radiance are perceptible. We are almost there, in Germany, the thirty feel. A few alphabets to be learnt, may be with some new pronunciations, a few expressions to be mastered to know which day of the week it is or where does a new friend come from or whether she likes coffee or tea and the German language is in your grip. Whether she is a housewife or a singer, he is a corporate executive or an engineering student or they are retired bankers...the aspirations of the thirty students of the German language class are the same. The teacher has to evolve a method of teaching, whereby he has to meet the different requirements of the society. He starts with the German alphabets with their peculiar sounds, the dipthong, the umlaut and the syllables and the students are excited. The mood is playful and their cell phones play their recorded voices again and again. The articles of the nouns, however, are a strange mix and remembering them is always a problem. Sir, why a young girl has to be of neuter gender and the table and the bed, although they are made of the same wood, have to have two different genders?, they ask. Enter the four different cases and the articles start changing at random without any rhyme or reason! Out of sheer disgust, 20% of the students leave the class. The road becomes more zig zag after that and there are mountains to climb. The Modalverbs spoil the mood completely, the prepositions are ridiculous and Past and Perfekt tenses, honestly, tax one s brain unnecessarily. Why should learning be so complicated?, contemplate the wise guys in the class and they decide not to come any more. By the time the adjectives are taught to be put correctly before the nouns, the teacher finds the class half full. The exam dates are announced; the students have to read, write, speak and hear. Only the ten most brave hearts out of the initial thirty take the examination and the brave teacher finally smiles that he has got some results to show after all. Sudip Chatterjee Spanish is the official language of 22 countries. It provides you a gateway to know the people, culture, literature, cuisine of many countries. It is considered as one of the most phonetic languages of the world. It is right now the second most spoken languages of the world after Chinese.
Our Pride Our Students The teaching methodology was quite impressive and the teacher was dedicated towards completion of my course. It was a good learning experience. Regards, Shams Reza (Arabic A1-92%) Had a wonderful time at CdA Centre. Arabic language seemed so easy due to the teaching pattern. Thanks to the Teacher and CdA Centre. CdA Centre is the temple for learning. Tania Biswas (Arabic A1-94%) Thanks to CdA Centre, the ultimate destination for learning foreign languages. CdA helped me to continue with my work simultaneously with my Arabic lessons due to its flexibility of timing. The teacher also helped me to achieve my goal. Monalisa Saha (Arabic -94%) I am ever grateful to CdA Centre for giving me the scope to learn Chinese in the easiest way by providing an excellent teacher whose effort helped me to score such good marks. CdA Centre s dedication and sincerity has earned it the topmost position amongst the languages centre. Aakash Agarwal (Chinese A1-98%)
Cd A GL BAL LANGUAGE CENTRE ( Cucchiaio d Argento ) Address : BJ 11 Sector II Salt Lake City Kolkata 700091 Tel: 23340177 / 40703104 Cell: 98310 77005 / 98310 37005 EMail: cdacentre@gmail.com / cucchiaioargento@gmail.com www.cdacentre.com JULY 2016