Lingua International Language Support and Translation Services
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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.

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 situations 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.