Need to improve your language skills as part of your business?
To be a useful business tool you need to be accustomed to function in the targeted language for more than short packets
of time. Perhaps your overseas associates work to the convenience of your attention span-perhaps
not.
If our client goes to Rome or Madrid for business he or she rarely needs to perform for an isolated hour
or so. The client is required to use their language skills for their typical working day of 12 hours.
This requires experience and practise before the results become vital- (Or do you simply expect to default to your
mother tongue after the pleasantries)?
Our clients appreciate that they will be required to us these language skills in a real business environment. Some providers
will give the impression that it only takes a little light stretching to run a marathon. The experienced runners -like
our clients- know it takes much more than that.
Are you being posted abroad on assignment?
If you are being posted at a months notice to manage a new subsidiary in Mexico it isn't enough to say to your
new workforce that you have been learning Spanish or "understand a bit". You need to be able to communicate with that workforce.
The whole notion of learning a foreign language becomes much less abstract.
Its results that count. You need to be able to communicate your knowledge of the language. That's why
our clients take a language immersion course in London before they depart to their new country