Omeida Chinese Academy

The working environment is very friendly here, which allows you to optimize your creativity and passion about your work. You don't need to worry about the relation between colleagues but focus on the work and you will get support from your colleagues.

The opportunity to learn Chinese indulged my fondness for learning languages, and Chinese was unlike any language I had studied before in many ways. Some of my family also speak Chinese natively and so this was a meaningful and important step in appreciating this part of myself and language is a crucial avenue to understanding any foreign culture. Going abroad also came at an important time in my life, in between graduating from university and starting work, and I am unsure as to when the next time I can travel for such a long period of time will be. Finally, China has long been on my list and was really the last significant country in East Asia left unvisited, so it did not take much convincing at all when a good friend approached me with the idea.

Honestly, when I left my last job and joined Omeida, I was just hoping to improve my spoken English. I majored in English and worked for about three years in a company using English every day (most of the time translating documents), but still could not understand or speak out when meeting the auditors from foreign organizations.