How can learning another language benefit you?
If you’re already working for a global organisation, you’ll realise how. You’ll be able to communicate more effectively with your colleagues across the company. You get queries answered quicker, do business smarter and win loads of brownie points along the way.
Some organisations make language skills a part of their job specifications, so if you’re looking for a new post, you’re cutting out some potential roles if you can’t speak, for example, French or Spanish.
Estate agents selling abroad are a case in point, with business property developer clients or those buying a second home.
There’s nothing worse than asking a question in your best pidgin French, only for the person to respond with a very long torrent which is above your understanding! Or trying to find your way to a meeting in a different country and not being able to understand how to get there. Then you’re late, can’t properly communicate how sorry you are, and immediately you’re wrong-footed, hot and flustered, and don’t clinch the deal. You go back to your boss in the UK and must explain.
Maybe you’re in HR and recruit for your company. How useful would it be to be able to speak a variety of languages to speak in a native tongue to potential recruits and employers?
In the UK, it seems we know that speaking different languages will help our careers, increase our employability, and be of enormous help when going abroad, but few of us do anything about it.
Change that now. Learn French, Spanish or English in a setting that works for you – either 1-2-1, in our Hove classroom, and via Skype wherever you are, at a convenient time.
Call Carole on 01273 222900 or book online.
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