The Lingua approach to your language course

Before you start

We look at all your points of contact: meetings, travel, social, telephone and email. Even if English is the regular language in meetings, there’ll still be those moments when a few words can go a long way. We assess your existing level in the language, and consider what kind of approach is likely to suit you best.

Your learning

Lingua’s style of training is adapted to the learning strengths of the learners. We do not have a one-method-fits-all solution. Our philosophy takes several angles of approach: 

• Practical rehearsal and role-play
  for business meetings; social exchanges;phone contact; conference calls; getting from A to B; emails; documentation – all your important points of contact.
• Rules and patterns: grammar is a very positive and creative source of help which gives you the patterns and multiplies your range of expressions many times over.
• Key words and phrases: for business and othercontact
• Culture: how they differ from our ways of saying and doing things, their social behaviour, their approach to business, what makes them different from us … and how this is expressed in the language.

Lingua’s teachers draw upon a range of relevant, dynamic and fun activities to support the learning. Practical rehearsal and role play is an excellent way of putting people into real-life situations. It’s engaging, stimulates more learning and offers an immediate benchmark of progress.  Conversational practice and our question-and-answer method are also highly-effective activities which help to reinforce new-found skills and to prepare the learner for international contact. Reading exercises are not so ‘up-hill’ if topics are selected to correspond with your interests and hobbies. Expect some homestudy too for this is a valuable part of the process: our resources and films are there to make these exercises engaging and fulfilling.

Your progress

We keep an eye on your learning progress with regular reviews that monitor what you have achieved in light of your course objectives and what targets remain.  In the short-term you'll notice benefits very quickly. A beginner learning to speak a language just to a 'get-by' level opens a world of contacts in professional life that will bring both you and your organisation immediate rewards. Even a few choice phrases can help that rapport with new contacts overseas.

The pluses do not stop there. Learning a language is one of the most positive things you can do. Discovery of a language, the people, their culture and traditions is enriching and a great experience.