Foreign Languages

   CAREER EDUCATION: FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Career builders seeking to improve their careers should notice that this is an increasingly globalized world in which markets have become really transnational. Foreign languages are no longer just a plus: they have become a real must even if your native language is English. Your career education probably didn’t take into account how important it is to be fluent in one or two foreign languages (at least). Your career advice expert will certainly confirm this view and orientate you towards the foreign language input in your further career education.

You can learn languages by yourself or attending some classes at your own town, but this cannot substitute the real thing. Taking some time to take part in a true immersion language and culture course abroad will certainly prove a sound career investment.

Immersion courses have many advantages for your career. First of all, the quality of your comprenhension and expression will be hard to match by people who have studied the same language at home. But, even more important, you’ll go back home with more than just the language learnt. You will have apprehended a part of the culture, the mentality and the way of life in the chosen country. The career implications of immersion courses are:

• Intercultural learning that will help you to excel in relations with customers, providers and other business acquaintances from other countries, not just the one you visited.

• A boost to your general culture, as travelling is considered to be the most intense and effective way of learning, over reading and coursework. A few weeks in a foreign country can produce an input of information and skills that will last forever. People will be eager to get to know you – many seeing the benefit of a one to one English class (which you too can take something away from, learning about their culture!) without the need to do a course abroad (a curso ingles extranjero for example).

• And of course, a real capacity to communicate with the speakers of the chosen language for any business purpose along the rest of your life. This is an asset you will sooner or later need, and you will then realize how well invested your time and money were when you took that immersion course.

• You will make contacts. And, furthermore, be able to visit your contacts even after the course has finished. With economic travel deals such as that of the Eurorail pass, you will have a home from home and so be able to reap all the professional benefits of knowing a different country – how the working culture works, what new innovations it may have, etc.

The following is a selection of the most prestigious providers of foreign language immersion courses for your career education purposes:

TEFL courses

Sprachkurs USA

Cursos inglés Londres

Sprachreise Malta


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