With options ranging from an intensive one-to-one Punjabi course at our London training centre or an in-company Punjabi 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 Punjabi courses.
Why do a Punjabi course in London? Our Punjabi courses are highly personalised and designed to improve your Punjabi communication skills, whether your focus is social, business, financial, diplomatic or legal. Upon completion of a Punjabi course with Communicaid here in London, you will have the confidence to communicate in Punjabi with colleagues, clients and suppliers.
Location: In addition to our Punjabi courses in London, we are also able to provide Punjabi language training courses worldwide via our training centres and global partners.
Benefits of our Punjabi language course
A Communicaid Punjabi language course will provide you with the ability to:
- Communicate more confidently with Punjabi speakers or when visiting a Punjabi-speaking
region
- Demonstrate goodwill and facilitate international communication at both a personal and
organisational level
- Build rapport and strengthen relationships with Punjabi-speaking contacts through a show of
interest in the Punjabi language and culture
Who should attend our Punjabi school
A Communicaid Punjabi training course is suitable for:
- Government and non-governmental agency workers operating in a Punjabi-speaking region
who need to be able to communicate at all levels
- Anyone planning a move to a Punjabi-speaking region and wishing to attend a Punjabi course
in order to prepare in advance for their posting or assignment
- Any business professional conducting business regularly with Punjabi speakers who wish to
build rapport and strengthen relationships through developing an understanding of Punjabi
Punjabi course content
The content and format of your Punjabi language training course will depend on your profession, proficiency in Punjabi and objectives. Whether beginner, survival, intermediate or advanced, key areas covered in all our Punjabi courses include:
- Spoken fluency, including pronunciation and accent
- Listening comprehension skills,
- Reading skills
- Telephone skills in Punjabi
- Email skills in Punjabi
- Sector or industry-specific terminology
- Presentation & negotiation skills Approach
Communicaid’s Punjabi language 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 Punjabi course materials will be used throughout, with recommendations on self-study material and extra reading made at the beginning and during your Punjabi course.
We offer a variety of training formats for your Punjabi 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).
Punjabi course trainer
All Communicaid Punjabi trainers are native speakers with at least 3 years’ professional Punjabi training experience. In addition to relevant academic and linguistic qualifications and experience, many of our Punjabi trainers also possess considerable exposure and expertise in the professional world.
Your Punjabi 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 Punjabi training team.
TM
Of Pakistani nationality, TM is a native speaker of Punjabi. Among Communicaid’s clients, TM has delivered language courses for the Defence School of Languages. Prior to his arrival in the UK, TM lectured in history at Government College University in Lahore, Pakistan. TM is also currently working on his PhD dissertation at Coventry University. He is also fluent in Urdu and Hindi.
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– Facts about the Punjabi language |
Punjabi is the official language of the Indian states of Punjab and Chandigarh. It is also one of the two official languages of Haryana and Delhi. It is estimated that over 100 million people speak Punjabi. Outside of India, Punjabi is widely spoken in neighbouring Pakistan, with the numbers of Punjabi speakers in this country actually outnumbering those of Indian Punjabi speakers.
Punjabi belongs to the Indo-Ayran branch of the Indo-European family of languages and unusually for this group, it is a tonal language, which means that words posses high-low pitch patterns permanently associated with them. It is related to other Northern Indian languages such as Hindi and Gujarati although they not mutually intelligible.
There are many dialects of Punjabi and they all form part of a dialect continuum. Principal dialects of Punjabi are: Majhi, Doabi, Malwai, Powadhi, Pothohari, Lahndi and Multani. Standard Punjabi uses the Majhi variant.
Punjabi can be written in different ways depending not only on the region and dialect spoken but also the religion of the speaker. Sikhs and others from the Indian Punjab state use a form called Gurmurkhi. In Pakistan, it is common to see Shahmurki being used, which derives from a form of Persian script. Finally, Hindus tend to use the Devanagari script which is used to write several other North Indian languages.
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