CORPORATE LANGUAGE TRAINING 2004
If the aim of your company is to be able to better: relate with your customers, motivate your team, connect with global partners, or make the right impression, let International House show you how to provide a results-driven language training program. Corporate Language Training courses are for your employees who have at least one year of work experience and need either more English or a foreign language to be more effective in their jobs. Companies may elect one or more courses and continue the program until the target level is achieved. Each course is normally 30 hours, which takes 10 weeks to complete. More intensive programs can be designed on request. Courses for individuals also may be booked for one or more weeks. Start dates are all by mutual agreement and classes may be held either at our location or on your company premises.

Eclectic method—using the best of skill-building approaches in listening and speaking is where we put the emphasis of each course. Certified teachers of foreign languages provide customize instruction. Only the target language is spoken in class. A user's knowledge of a foreign language is ultimately judged by his or her ability to speak the language rather than how to read or write it. At IH, we spend the bulk of our teaching time on building the learner's skills and confidence in speaking and listening. In the elementary levels we will focus on fluency building, making sure the learner has a good grasp of the sound system in the target language, providing conversation 'gambits', then building the learner's ability to ask questions in the target language. At the higher levels, speaking skills will be developed by helping learners express complex ideas in the target language. Learning a language has many similarities to learning a musical instrument; first are the exercises, then comes the ability to 'play without the music'. Our goal is to help learners speak confidently in public with as few errors as possible.

Often employees are sent abroad to attend meetings or conferences. IH has 130 schools worldwide that can be utilized to arrange intensive pre-meeting or pre-conference courses in the country where the meeting is organized so that the employee has a chance to become fully immersed in the language and culture before the meeting begins. Course prices vary according to the destination.

International House has pioneered the virtual classroom through its NetLanguages online courses. Now you can extend your studies in either English or Spanish just by logging-on from your home or office twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Each client at International House will have the opportunity to add a NetLanguage course to any course currently being taken.

SPEAKING CLUB
Extend your classroom learning by joining our speaking club; offered in English and Spanish. Practice with native speakers of the target language in a natural speaking environment.

International House believes in creating a better world through shared language and communication. We believe in providing quality training by certified teachers who each bring a unique and special gift to the language classroom. We believe that each course and each class should be planned around what we know about the learners, what will be possible to achieve, how best a lesson can be learned, and what is most important to teach, knowing that language is a mixture of many things (instinct, skill, content, cultural artifact, music) that constantly change, requiring that we teach language in many different ways. Our teaching reflects this philosophy, and we hope that, by instilling in learners a love for language, they will continue with their language learning long after their courses have ended.

The faculty at IH is composed of highly trained language specialists who have received advanced training in applied linguistics in addition to having some business background. All have facility with at least one foreign language and have extensive teaching experience. Companies and agencies that have used our faculty and services include:

American Express AT&T BASF Boehringer Pharmaceuticals Columbia Sportswear Glaxo Smith-Kline Hitachi

Honda Corp. Huntair Intel Corporation Int'l Service Systems Japan Oil KIA Motor Corp. International House

For Information about Corporate Training, please contact one of the International House USA Training Centers.