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On-Site Language Training

OBJECTIVES
  • Improve communication skills in a multinational and global business environment.
  • Improve language skills to transferees for a smoother adjustment to living and working abroad.


  • PROGRAM OUTCOME
    For the corporation:
  • Assurance of more successful and productive overseas assignments.
  • Reduced risk loss on expatriate investment.


  • For the employee:
  • Acquisition of a firm foundation of language skills.
  • Knowledge of foreign culture.
  • Necessary communication skill in the corporation's multinational setting.


  • PROGRAM STRUCTURE
    The language program is a comprehensive and integrated system of courses that leads the participant from novice to a professional proficiency, and maintains that level. The courses share a common teaching methodology and system of testing for the purposes of placement and evaluation.

    CLASS FORMATS
    Group Classes: on-going, long term and cost efficient format that allows language training for a larger number of employees.
    Semi-Private: two co-workers with shared objectives and schedules (assessed at a similar level).
    Private: for the busy employee or frequent traveler. This format allows for maximum flexibility and most student talking time.
    Intensive Instruction: for those who need to reach a specific language level with a limited timetable.

    LOCATION
    All courses will be taught at your location. This reduces travel costs for the student and improves flexibility of course schedules.

    COSTS
    Costs vary based on your location and training needs. Lingua has created a competitive cost model to optimize the student's time and proficiency. Please contact us to discuss your goals.

    FOUR LEVELS OF LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
    Novice: no experience or speech limited to memorized material.
    Intermediate: can create with language, ask and answer simple questions on familiar topics, and handle simple situation or transactions.
    Advanced: can narrate and describe in past, present, and future time/aspect, and handle a complicated situation or transaction.
    Superior: can support opinion, hypothesize, discuss abstract topics, and handle a linguistically unfamiliar situation.


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