Sarawak Metro staff, apprentices undergo Mandarin language training programme

KUCHING (July 29): About 80 Sarawak Metro Sdn Bhd staff and Young Talent Programme apprentices are undergoing a ‘Mandarin for Beginners’ language training programme.

Once they complete the 14-week programme, they will have the opportunity to take part in a more advanced Mandarin language programme, which will include technical engineering terminologies.

This is part of Sarawak Metro’s Socio-Economic Enhancement Development (SEED) Programme.

A press release today said the initiative is a collaboration between Sarawak Metro and its Kuching Urban Transportation System (KUTS) Project’s Systems Package 1 contractor EMG JV Sdn Bhd.

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak’s (Unimas) Professional Continuous Excellent Learning (ProCEL) Department is providing the training resources for the programme.

When officiating at the kick-off event for ‘Mandarin for Beginners’, Sarawak Metro director of Corporate Communication, SEED Programme and Bumiputera Relations Alexius Barieng explained the training programme aimed to address some of the challenges faced by Sarawak Metro’s engineers and apprentices, especially those dealing with technology providers based in China.

“The language barrier is one of the challenges faced by our team and our technology providers from China and hence we want to close that gap.

“I hope ‘Mandarin for Beginners’ will provide them the opportunity to learn basic Mandarin towards enhancing better communication and collaboration,” said Barieng during the event at Sarawak Metro’s corporate office here.