Lingo School of Knowledge

Thank you for choosing Lingo! Set up in 2004, Lingo School of Knowledge specializes in language courses for English, Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Bahasa Indonesian, Malay, German, Italian, Turkish, Spanish, Thai, Vietnamese, Arabic, Hebrew, Cantonese, Russian, Dutch, Hindi and many more for your selection.

About LingoLingo has 3 core Focus: 1. Foreign Language Instruction 2. IELTS and GMAT Preparatory 3. Corporate Soft Skills Training

Lingo School of Knowledge stands strong in our belief of providing top class programs to our customers. We will continue to set a high standard of education and support Singapore’s goal of becoming a top-notch education hub in this part of the world.

Our Mission Statement

Lingo School of Knowledge aims to set high standards in the education industry by constantly meeting our customer’s expectations, by constantly reviewing our situation and by constantly upgrading ourselves so as to continually provide quality service to all our customers.

Our Vision

• To be a leader in the field of education by offering high quality language and training programs at a competitive price.

• To get it right the first time – Every time.

• To consistently conform to Singapore’s private education’s regulation of our school and exceed the expectations of our clients.

Why Choose Lingo?

• Registered School with Ministry of Education

• Highly qualified native speaking trainers

• Fully customizable training packages

• Focus on developing skills• Dedicated and Professional

Team• Certificates upon completion

We have set three basic goals to govern the management of our Institution:

1. We aim to hire only the best.All courses and syllabus will be constantly reviewed and restructured to keep up with our ever changing environment. We will also continue to add new courses in to keep up with training requirements of tomorrow’s individuals, corporations and institutions.

2. We aim to be progressive and proactive.Our teachers and lecturers are carefully selected to ensure that their values and characters reflect that of the school. We will teach all languages using only trained native speakers so as to ensure the quality of our programs. We will recruit and retain only the best educators in their respective fields by constantly evaluating our trainer’s skill and attitude.

For the students’ optimum classroom interaction and learning, we will maintain an appropriate teacher-to-student ratio of no more than 20:1, thus providing the best opportunity for student-teacher and student-student collaboration.

3. We aim to provide a conducive learning environment.We constantly observe, assess and upgrade our physical set-up to provide a pleasant and fun learning ambience for our students at all times.

87 Beach Road, #03-01Chye Sing Building,Singapore 189695

Tel: 6253 3320Fax: 6352 2290Email: [email protected]

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now the most widely used language in the world. It is spoken as a first language by the majority populations in almost 60 sovereign states. It is the third-most-common native language in the world, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. It is widely learned as a second language and is an official language of

Hello! Welcome to Lingo!the European Union, many Commonwealth countries and the United Nations, as well as in many world organisations. Approximately 375 million people speak English as their first language. An estimated 470 million to over a billion people speak English as their second language depending on how literacy or mastery is defined and measured. English today is probably the third largest language by number of native speakers, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. However, when combining native and non-native speakers, it is probably the most commonly spoken language in the world.

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Lingo’s well-structured language programs are designed specifically for people with little or no knowledge of the language. Our highly qualified native teachers are trained to help you build a good foundation right from the start. Come learn the Lingo way!

About one-fifth of the world’s population, or over one billion people, speaks some form of Chinese as their first language.

Putonghua / Guoyu, often called “Mandarin”, is the official standard language used by the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), and Singapore (where it is called “Huayu” or simply Chinese). It is based on the Beijing dialect,

您好！欢迎到 Lingo!which is the dialect of Mandarin as spoken in Beijing. The government intends for speakers of all Chinese speech varieties to use it as a common language of communication.

Therefore it is used in government agencies, in the media, and as a language of instruction in schools.

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Japanese (日本語 Nihongo) is an East Asian language spoken by about 125 million speakers, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language. Japanese has no genealogical relationship with Chinese, but it makes extensive use of Chinese characters, or kanji (漢字), in its writing system, and a large portion of its vocabulary is borrowed from Chinese. Along with kanji, the Japanese writing

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system primarily uses two syllabic (or moraic) scripts, hiragana (ひらがな or 平仮名) and katakana (カタカナ or 片仮名).


Korean (한국어/조선말) is the official language of South Korea and North Korea as well as one of the two official languages in China’s Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture. Approximately 80 million people speak Korean worldwide. For over a millennium, Korean was written with adapted Chinese characters called hanja, complemented by phonetic systems like hyangchal, gugyeol, and idu.

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Thai, or more precisely Siamese or Central Thai, is the national and official language of Thailand and the native language of the Thai people and Thai Chinese. An estimated 20 million people speak Thai, and in addition to Siamese Thai, Thailand is home to other related Tai languages.

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The Indonesian name for the language is Bahasa Indonesia (literally “the language of Indonesia”)

Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) is the official language of Indonesia. It is a standardized register of Malay, an Austronesian language which has been used as a lingua franca in the Indonesian archipelago for centuries. Most Indonesians also speak one of

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more than 700 indigenous languages. Indonesia is the fourth most populous nation in the world.Of its large population, the majority speak Indonesian, making it one of the most widely spoken languages in the world. Indonesian has 23 million native speakers and 140 million second language speakers, who speak it alongside their local mother tongue. It is used extensively as a first language by Indonesians in urban areas, and as a second language by those residing in more rural parts of Indonesia.



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Malay is the national language of Malaysia and Brunei, and it is one of four official languages of Singapore. It is spoken natively by 40 million people across the Malacca Strait, including the coasts of the Malay Peninsula of Malaysia and the eastern coast of Sumatra in Indonesia, and has been established as a native language of part of western coastal Sarawak and West Kalimantan in Borneo.

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The total number of speakers of the language is more than 215 million.



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Vietnamese (tiếng Việt) is the national, official language of Vietnam. It is the native language of Vietnamese people (Kinh), and of about three million Vietnamese residing elsewhere. It also is spoken as a first or second language by many ethnic minorities of Vietnam. An estimated 86 million people speak Vietnamese. As the national language, Vietnamese is spoken throughout Vietnam

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Vietnamese

by ethnic Vietnamese and by Vietnam’s many minorities. A few thousand native speakers live just across the border in China. It also is spoken in overseas Vietnamese communities.



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Tagalog is the first language of the Philippine region IV (CALABARZON and MIMAROPA), of Bulacan and of Metro Manila. Its standardized form, officially named Filipino, is the national language and one of two official languages of the Philippines, the other being English. Tagalog is also spoken natively by inhabitants living on the islands, Marinduque, Mindoro, and large areas of Palawan. It is spoken by

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approximately 64 million Filipinos, 96% of the household population. An estimated 22 million, or 28% of the total Philippine population, speak it as a native language.



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Burma, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, commonly shortened to Myanmar is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia bordered by Bangladesh, India, China, Laos and Thailand. One third of Burma’s total perimeter of 1,930 kilometres (1,200 miles) forms an uninterrupted coastline along the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. Burmese is spoken by Burma’s population of over 60 million. Myanmar is the world’s

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40th largest country and the second largest in Southeast Asia.



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Hindi (हिन्दी), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (मानक हिन्दी), is a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language. Hindustani is the native language of people living in Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and parts of Rajasthan. Hindi is one of the official languages of India.

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An estimated 490 million people speak Hindi as their native or second language. This makes Hindi approximately the sixth-most-widely spoken in the world.



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Approximately 406 million people speak Spanish as a native language, making it second only to Mandarin in terms of its number of native speakers worldwide. It also has 60 million speakers as a second language, and 20 million students as a foreign language. Spanish is one of the six official languages of the United Nations, and is used as an official language by the European Union and Mercosur.

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French is estimated as having 110 million speak French as their first language and another 190 million as their second language speakers.

French is an official language in 29 countries. It is an official language of all United Nations agencies and a large number of international organizations. According to France’s Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs,

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77 million in Europe speak French natively. Outside of France, the highest numbers of French speakers are found in Canada (25% of the population, of whom most live in Quebec), Belgium (45% of the population), Switzerland (20% of the population) and Luxembourg. In 2013, the Ministry identified French as the second most spoken language in Europe, after German and before English.



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German (Deutsch) is spoken natively by approximately 100 million people and another 200 million as a second language, making it one of the world’s major languages. It is also the most widely spoken first language in the European Union. With the inclusion of the second-language speakers, the number of German speakers is about 200 million. German is primarily spoken in Germany (where it is the first

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language for more than 95% of the population), Austria (89%), Switzerland (65%), the majority of Luxembourg, and Liechtenstein - the latter being the only state with German as the sole official and spoken language.

German is also one of the three official languages of Belgium, alongside Dutch and French. Speakers are primarily concentrated within the German-speaking Community region in eastern Belgium, and form about 1% of the country’s population.



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Italian is spoken as a native language by 59 million people in the EU (13% of the EU population), mainly in Italy, and as a second language by 14 million (3%). Including the Italian speakers in non-EU European countries (such as Switzerland and Albania) and on other continents, the total number of speakers is more than 85 million.Italian is widely taught in many schools around the world, but

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Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth’s inhabited land area. Russia is also the world’s ninth most populous nation with 143 million people as of 2012.[9] Extending across the entirety of northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans nine time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms.

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Russian

Russia’s 160 ethnic groups speak some 100 languages. Today there is an estimated 255 million Russian speakers in the world. Russian is also one of the six official languages of the UN.



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Dutch (About this sound Nederlands (help•info)) is a West Germanic language and the native language of most of the population of the Netherlands, and about sixty percent of the populations of Belgium and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second language

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Arabic (ةيبرعلا) or يبرع/ is a name for what are ىبرعtraditionally considered the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century. This includes both the literary language and varieties of Arabic spoken in a wide arc of territory, stretching across the Middle East, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa. Arabic is spoken by as many as 422 million

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Arabic

people in the Arab world, making it one of the half dozen most populous languages in the world with Egyptian Arabic having 54 million native speakers —still greater than any other Semitic language. Arabic also is a liturgical language of 1.6 billion Muslim speakers. It is one of six official languages of the United Nations.



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Cantonese (广州话 or 廣州話), is a language that originated in the vicinity of Canton (i.e., Guangzhou and Hong Kong) in southern China, and is often regarded as the prestige dialect of Yue. It is also largely spoken by overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia (Malaysia and Singapore), Canada, Brazil, Peru, Cuba, Panama, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and the United States where it is the third most common language in the country.

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Turkish is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with over 63 million native speakers. Speakers are located predominantly in Turkey, with smaller groups in Germany, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Greece, and other parts of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia.

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Hebrew is regarded as the language of the Hebrews/Israelites and their ancestors. In the 19th century, it was revived as a spoken and literary language, and, according to Ethnologue, is now the language of 9 million people worldwide, of whom 7 million are from Israel. The United States has the second largest Hebrew speaking population, with about 221,593 fluent speakers, mostly from Israel.

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There is a vaRiety of languages offered in the school. The teacher tries her best and does recap prior to the start of each lesson. She extends her help reading.

--- Lina Tan



WELCOME TO LINGO IELTS PREPARATORY

What is IELTS?

IELTS stands for the International English Language Testing System. It is the world’s most used system to measure one’s level of English and is recognized by over 9000 organizations worldwide. It is mainly taken by people who seek are International education, Immigration and professional accreditation.

Early IELTS preparation is crucial to scoring well in IELTS. At Lingo, we teach you the exam structure and help you understand how the exams are conducted and graded. Lingo’s IELTS Preparatory focuses on the 4 core skills of the IELTS exam:

IELTS is offered in 2 different test formats (Academic and General Training). Students are graded on a scale of 1 to 9 in the 4 skills and a summary of the 4 skills will contribute to your overall score. The exam lasts for 2 hour 45 minutes and exam scores are released within 2 weeks and is valid for a period of 2 years.

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SpeakingWriting


IELTS Program

Select your program INTRO ORIGINAL INTENSIVE EXCLUSIVE

Recommend For First Timers People with current work or school commitments

People who wish to come 4 times a

week

People who wants personal

One-to-one Instruction

Training Schedule Fixed Fixed Fixed Flexible

Class Size Group Class of no more than 15

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Group Class of no more than 15

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Twice a week 12 sessions of 3

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hours each

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Number of Terms 1 4 4 N.A

2-Band Score Improvement Guarantee

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Pre-assessment score

of 4.0 and above)

Minimum Course Entrance Requirements

None Pre-assessment score of 4.0

Pre-assessment score of 4.0

Pre-assessment score of 4.0

Original Imported Course Materials“Worth S$60 per term”

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Includes Pre and Post Assessment Test “Worth S$248”

✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

University Entrance Advise“Priceless”

✓ ✓ ✓ ✓



“Goto Sensei not only teach us the language but he teach us the culture of Japan.”

--- Muhd Syafiq Bin Shaifuddin


Prices includes Material Fees of S$60 and 2 Assessment (pre course and post course) exams worth S$248.

For first timers and people who want a refresher program after a long break from taking the IELTS exam. Designed to prepare you for the IETLS exam by working on your fundamental skills in the 4 required areas of the IELTS exam: Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing. Besides working on your core skills, the trainer will also be going through the IELTS exam format, exam strategies and exam tips to give you the added advantage.

This course is a prelude to our

S$980 for 36 hours IELTS Original program which carries the 2 band improvement guarantee or sit in free in any group class until you improve

Prices includes registration fees of S$30 and all materials. No Hidden Costs!

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTSThere is no minimum requirements on the Pre-assessment exam to enter this program. This module is meant for first timers and refreshers.

NEED HELP SELECTING?Still unsure of which program to take or need more information? Do contact us at 62533320 or email us at [email protected] and our friendly course consultants will be more than willing to guide you.

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Built for people who wish to improve their IELTS grades. There are a total of 4 terms in this program and students will go through in detail foundation and core skills needed to achieve their desired IELTS score. Our dedicated team of instructors will bring you through the 4 core areas of the IELTS exam: Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing and build up your very own profile of strengths and weaknesses to help you improve and best your

S$980 for 36 hours

current IELTS score.

Besides working on your core skills, the trainer will also be going through the IELTS exam format, exam strategies and exam tips to give you the added advantage. If you follow through our program and instructions, we guarantee a 2 band improvement in your IELTS score or you are free to sit into any of our group classes for free until you break your barrier. We are that confident!


ORIGINAL


MINIMUM REQUIREMENTSThere is a minimum score on our Pre-assessment exam that you will have to attain before you are allowed to enter this program. Should you not be able to hit 4.5, you will be advised to attend our INTRO package and build up your foundation before retaking your admission exam.

2 BAND IMPROVEMENT GUARANTEELingo’s programs are designed to help you excel in the IELTS exam and we guarantee that your IELTS score will increase by at least 2 bands if you attend classes and complete your assignments and instructions. Should you not attain the 2 band improvement after the program, you will be invited to attend one group class FREE OF CHARGE until you break the 2 band target.

LINGO Guarantee Results!

QUALIFIED AND EXPERIENED IELTS INSTRUCTORSRegistered with the Ministry of Education, all our teachers meet the necessary qualification to bring you through our programs.

Our carefully selected instructors have proven track records and testimonials, patient and understanding enough to know that no 2 students are alike, but all need the same care and attention to excel and succeed.

SMALL GROUP CLASSOur classes are kept at a maximum of 15 students and no more to keep the class size small and manageable. We want to give each and every individual enough care and attention to help you succeed.

IMPORTED COURSE MATERIALSOur course designers have chosen from an extensive list of course structures and text materials and selected the latest and most upated textbooks and teaching methodology to help you perform.

NEED HELP SELECTING?

Still unsure of which program to take or need more information? Do contact us at 62533320 or email us at [email protected] and our friendly course consultants will be more than willing to guide you.




Have time and want to focus on your ITELS exam? Want more instruction before the exam? Similar to the ORIGINAL program, INTENSIVE is built for people who are able to afford more training hours with us. There are still 4 terms in this program but as you spend more hours a week on the program, you can complete the program 2 times faster. This program will go through in detail foundation and core skills needed to achieve their desired IELTS score.

Our dedicated team of instructors

S$980 for 36 hours will bring you through the 4 core areas of the IELTS exam: Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing and build up your very own profile of strengths and weaknesses to help you improve and best your current IELTS score.

Besides working on your core skills, the trainer will also be going through the IELTS exam format, exam strategies and exam tips to give you the added advantage. If you follow through our program and instructions, we guarantee a 2 band improvement in your IELTS score or you are free to sit into any of our group classes for free until you break your barrier. We are that confident!


INTENSIVE


MINIMUM REQUIREMENTSThere is a minimum score on our Pre-assessment exam that you will have to attain before you are allowed to enter this program. Should you not be able to hit 4.5, you will be advised to attend our INTRO package and build up your foundation before retaking your admission exam.



QUALIFIED AND EXPERIENED IELTS INSTRUCTORSRegistered with the Ministry of Education, all our teachers meet the necessary qualification to bring you through our programs.

Our carefully selected instructors have proven track records and testimonials, patient and understanding enough to know that no 2 students are alike, but all need the same care and attention to excel and succeed.








Get your personal IELTS instructor and we will work with you on an exclusive basis on your weaker areas.

• After your Pre-course assessment test, our instructor will sit down with you and go through your strengths and weaknesses and come up with a curriculum to focus in on areas that will help you hit that 2 band increase.

• All the materials that are taught in ORIGINAL and INTENSIVE will be instructed during your

S$2000 for 20 hoursprivate lesson as well.

• Besides working on your core skills, the trainer will also be going through the IELTS exam format, exam strategies and exam tips to give you the added advantage.

• The PERSONAL program is also taught by our dedicated team of qualified teachers registered with our Ministry of Education. No compromise will be made to ensure that you get the best available instruction from this program.

• Should you decide to extend the hours, you are free to do so.

• If after taking our PERSONAL program you do not see the 2 band grade improvement, you will be invited to sit through an ORIGINAL or INTENSIVE class, giving you the assurance and guarantee that LINGO cares!

PERSONAL


MINIMUM REQUIREMENTSThere is no minimum score on our Pre-assessment exam that you will have to attain before you are allowed to enter the PERSONAL program.



QUALIFIED AND EXPERIENED IELTS INSTRUCTORSRegistered with the Ministry of Education, all our teachers meet the necessary qualification to bring you through our programs. Our carefully selected instructors have proven track records and testimonials, patient and understanding enough to know that no 2 students are alike, but

all need the same care and attention to excel and succeed.





87 Beach Road, #03-01

Chye Sing Building,

Singapore 189695

Tel: 6253 3320

Fax: 6352 2290

Email: [email protected]

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