Our approach is to work closely with you and your organisation to personalise your language course to meet your specific business and individual needs. A detailed diagnostic consultancy and assessment of our students current language ability will ensure that the approach, format, content and duration meet your requirements.
Why choose our customised language courses?
Our customised language training focuses on 360 degree real-life communication that will enable you and your employees to develop skills that will improve your communication performance with your business partners. Our programmes are well-adjusted to your identified needs and objectives. Our customised courses will assist you in learning any language from scratch or in improving your already acquired language skills in context: introductions, presentations, meetings, phone conversations, case-studies.
Training programmes:
English language courses
Because English is so widely spoken, it has often been referred to as a “world language”, the LINGUA FRANCA of the modern era, and while it is not an official language in most countries, it is currently the language most often taught as a foreign language.[citation needed] It is, by international treaty, the official language for aeronauticaland maritimecommunications. English is one of the official languages of the United Nations and many other international organizations, including the International Olympic Committee. English is the language most often studied as a foreign language in the European Union, by 89% of schoolchildren, ahead of French at 32%, while the perception of the usefulness of foreign languages among Europeans is 68% in favour of English ahead of 25% for French.[69] Among some of the non-English-speaking EU countries,the following percentages of the adult population claims to be able to converse in English: 85% in Sweden, 83% in Denmark, 79% in the Netherlands, 66% in Luxembourg and over 50% in Finland, Slovenia, Austria, Belgium, and Germany. In 2012, excluding native speakers, 38% of Europeans consider that they can speak English, but only 3% of Japanese people. Learning English improves your chances of success in the current job market.
French language courses
French is an official language in 29 countries, most of which form LA FRANCOPHONIE (in French), the community of French-speaking countries. It is an official language of all United Nations agencies and a large number of international organizations. According to France’s Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, 77 million in Europe speak French natively. Outside of France, the highest numbers of French speakers are found in Canada (25% of the population, of whom the grand majority lives in Quebec), Belgium (45% of the population), Switzerland (20% of the population) and Luxembourg. In 2013, the Ministry identified French as the second most spoken language in Europe, after German and before English. Twenty percent of non-Francophone Europeans know how to speak French, totaling roughly 145.6 million people in Europe alone. As a result of extensive colonial ambitions of France and Belgium (at that time governed by a French-speaking elite), between the 17th and 20th centuries, French was introduced to colonies in the Americas, Africa, Polynesia, the Levant, Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean. According to a demographic projection led by the Université Laval and the Reseau Demographie de l’Agence universitaire de la francophonie, French speakers will number approximately 500 million people in 2025 and 650 million people, or approximately 7% of the world’s population by 2050. Learning French improves your chances of success in the current job market.
German language courses
German is spoken in a wide variety of countries by more than 120 million people in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland and in parts of Belgium, Northern Italy and Eastern France. Germany has the one of the largest and most powerful national economy in Europe, the fourth largest by nominal GDP in the world, the fifth largest by PPP, and was the biggest net contributor to the EU budget. German is a key language in the European Union and the new economies of Central and Eastern Europe.German is a very important cultural language. Historically, Germany has been called Das Land der Dichter und Denker (“the land of poets and thinkers”),because of the major role its famous writers and philosophers have played in the development of Western thought and culture. It was spoken and written by Goethe, Mozart, Beethoven, Freud, Klimt and Einstein, as well as numerous other great artists and scientists. Today, 10% of all books published worldwide are in the German language. Learning German improves your chances of success in the current job market.
Spanish language courses
Spanish is the most popular second language learned by native speakers of American English. From the last decades of the 20th century, the study of Spanish as a foreign language has grown significantly, in part because of the growing populations and economies of many Spanish-speaking countries, and the growing international tourism in these countries. Spanish is the most widely understood language in the Western Hemisphere, with significant populations of native Spanish speakers ranging from the tip of Patagonia to as far north as New York City and Chicago. Additionally, there are over 10 million fluent second language speakers in both Brazil and the United States. Since the early 21st century, it has arguably superseded French in becoming the second-most-studied language and the second language in international communication, after English. Learning Spanish improves your chances of success in the current job market.
Italian language courses
Italian is widely taught in many schools around the world, but rarely as the first foreign language; in fact, Italian is considered the fourth- or fifth-most frequently taught foreign language in the world. According to the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, every year there are more than 200,000 foreign students that are learning Italian language; they are distributed in the 90 Institutes of Italian Culture in the world, in the 179 Italian schools abroad and in the 111 Italian sections that are open into foreign schools. In the United States, Italian is the fourth most taught foreign language after Spanish, French and German, in that order (or the fifth if American Sign Language is considered). In central-east Europe Italian is first in Albania and Montenegro, second in Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, and Ukraine after English, and third in Hungary, Romania and Russia after English and German. But throughout the world, Italian is the fifth most taught foreign language, after English, French, German, and Spanish. Learning Italian improves your chances of success in the current job market.
Language courses are held in:
- individual classes;
- groups.
Lingua Franca language courses include:
- adequate course-books containing challenging topics;
- interactive approach based on all four linguistic skills: speaking, writing, reading and listening comprehesion;
- innovative methods and fast conversational progress;
- relevant vocabulary in context;
- situational communication;
- native speaker recordings;
- constant needs assessment in order to better customize our courses.