Language courses for companies
an investment in the future of your company

We are they place to go for tailored language courses for your employees in the Winterthur, Zurich, Schaffhausen and Frauenfeld regions. Invest in the future by training your employees.

Not only will this investment benefit your company and your employees and but your clients too.

You decide, where and when classes take place and what the aims of the course are. Class is given by request at your company or at our centrally-located school in Winterthur.

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Level courses
Step by step

Highly enjoyable, varied lessons ensure your employees’ skills in the target language improve on all fronts. Expanded vocabulary and increased grammar knowledge enable them to more effectively communicate in speech and writing.

Our level courses comply with the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for Languages. Depending on the level, level courses last 100 or 150 lessons and are divided into two or three 50-lesson-modules.

In our level courses, students improve their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills while attaining the grammar relevant to the respective CEFR level.

The teaching materials, i.e. reading and audio texts, in our standard level courses cover a wide range of topics. As such, students are prepared to deal with all types of situations in an environment where the traget language is spoken.

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  • hear, understand and speak the target language
  • learn to read and write in the target language
  • comprehensible hands-on grammar
  • instructive exercises with practical examples
  • interesting reading and audio texts with useful vocabulary drawn from life
Business language courses
More effective communication at the workplace

We offer business language courses on all levels in English, German, French and Spanish.

In our business courses, students acquire the language skills needed for work, learn the vocabulary for their line of work as well as apt phrases for business correspondence and front office work. Further, they get sensitised to cultural peculiarities in a business environment in the foreign language of choice. Regular exposure to and increased use of the target language gives students' more self-confidence when using the language in a professional environment.

In our business courses, students acquire the language skills needed for work, learn the vocabulary for their line of work as well as apt phrases for business correspondence and front office work. Further, they get sensitised to cultural peculiarities in a business environment in the foreign language of choice.

Basic grammar knowledge and appropriate etiquette can contribute in no small degree to the success of your international projects. Avoid misunderstandings and save time in the execution of your projects by empowering the relevant employees.

Our business language courses comply with the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for Languages. Depending on the level, level courses last 100 or 150 lessons and are divided into two or three 50-lesson-modules. Students improve their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills while attaining the grammar relevant to the respective CEFR level.

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  • hear, understand and speak the target language
  • learn to read and write in the target language
  • comprehensible hands-on grammar
  • instructive exercises with practical examples
  • interesting reading and audio texts with useful vocabulary drawn from life
Conversational courses
Present, opine, negotiate and argue your position

Improve the rhetorical skills of your employees with our general conversation courses. The focus can be e.g. phone calls and presentations in the areas of sales, support and offers. Let us know what you need.

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  • talk, chat, think, argue…
  • discuss, reason, inform, phone…
  • explain, present, convince…
  • and get your message across as intended!
Exam preparation
Diplomas in the target language

Do you require your employees to obtain one of the established and professionally recognised diplomas foreign language exams?

No matter which certificate is being pursuing, we can improve your employees’ chances of success thanks to an effective preparation course.

We have over 12 years of experience in preparing students for the different Cambridge, Oxford, Goethe Institut and DELF and telc exams. We know what counts, what to look out for and how to prepare.

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  • highly productive lessons
  • optimal preparation
  • available for all popular exams from Goethe Institut, Cambridge English, Instituto Cercantes, DELF and telc
  • standard German or German for the workplace
Targeted and made-to-measure
Courses that meet your needs

You already have an idea which aspects of your employees’ work day a language courses should focus on and help develop. Therefore you decide, what the emphasis and focus of the course should be.

Be it a business language course, a level course or an exam preparation course: we have a course to match your needs.

In consultation with you, we will develop and design a course based on your specifications and tailored to your needs.

Needs assessment
What are the language skills your employees require and to what end?

Before courses begin, we will carry out a needs assessment. You tell us what you want the requirements and objectives of the course to be and on what the emphasis should be placed, e.g. on business correspondence, phone calls, front office or terminology.

Bearing the course objectives in mind, we will then conduct evaluation exams with your employees. We then proceed to flesh out a personalised, tailored course design based on your requirements, the course objectives and the results of the evaluation exams. Students are allocated to the course groups according to the total number of participants and their level.

Added value for you
Your specifications, our expertise

No two clients are the same, yet all of our business customers can count on our first-class service. Benefit from

  • competent and honest customer service
  • personal support and assistance
  • course designs tailored to your requirements
  • tangible learning success
  • overview of your employees’ progress and course participation throughout the duration of the course
  • committed, experienced and motivated teachers
  • evaluation tests with the purpose of optimal groupings
  • first-rate tuition at an affordable price
Performance review
Monitoring of the efficacy of your investment

Transparency is of utmost concern to us. Therefore, we will keep you informed of your employees’ progress and their course attendance for the entire duration of the course. Learning progress is recorded by means of written reports, which you have access to.

In order to assess the success of the courses, we report to you continuously (usually bi-weekly or monthly) on the progress of your employees.

The evaluation is carried out according to the following criteria: auditory comprehension, reading comprehension, fluency, grammar and pronounciation and serves the purpose of detecting in time, when students are struggling to meet the targets set.

Furthermore, we maintain attendance lists and forward these to you so that you are always up to date with respect to your employees’ course participation.

References
Our corporate clients

We have had the privilege of carrying out language courses for the companies listed below.