MANILA, Philippines - The Manila Doctors College is offering short-term foreign language courses like Mandarin, Nihonggo, Spanish, Italian and French designed to cater to the conversational and writing skills needed in an individual’s line of work. Sessions are held at the newly-installed state-of-the-art speech laboratory to facilitate a highly communicative class. The primary features of the program are the unique design of the curriculum being offered to suit the needs of the industry when it comes to acquiring proficiency in a particular foreign language and the flexibility of the schedule to adjust the availability of the participants. The offering is under the auspices of MDC’s Languages Department, where Prof. Rolance Chua is the key lecturer. Enrolment is ongoing.