French for Business

Speaking languages and being able to communicate with different cultures has always been an advantage but these days it is crucial for your business. In this context, being able to communicate with your French speaking clients or suppliers in their own language and knowing their culture is essential for the success of any business management.

These programs are characterised by their flexibility and convenience providing busy company personnel with the opportunity to study a new language with minimum disruption to their work schedule.

According to your business and company needs and after a first free hour assessment included a test to assess your level, we design the structure of your bespoke programme.

We work with well recognised academic French coursebooks but also various supplementary materials such as French magazines and newspapers, French idioms, recordings of the radio news or TV news of the day, French history books and maps of France.

Example (two hours weekly course for an employee working for a company which trades with France):

5 min: Review of your previous homework and reminder of the learning of the past course.
5 min: Two new idioms of the day
5 min: Pronunciation, rhythm and speed speak exercises through technical vocabulary linked to your business activity.
50 min: Academic learning (listening, writing, reading, talking) using the appropriate book to your level.
30 min: Your bring evidences of your work in French like emails, power point presentation, recording of phone conversation, etc…
Those work related materials will be very useful to improve your vocabulary and grammar.
10 min: Listening to the “Radio France” news of the day (you write down word by word what you have understood)
10 min: Free discussion about an article you have chosen in a daily French newspaper.
5 min:  Time to feed you back grammar and vocabulary mistakes you have made during the free discussion and define your homework.