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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.
torical 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:
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 rhe-
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 CJ13. 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