How to choose a language course

A language course can be a fantastic benefit for your employees. Not only do they learn a language to use during work, but they can also put it to great use in their personal lives, too. Since the range of courses on offer is so immense, perhaps you’re unsure which to choose for your staff. In the following article we’ll advise you on how best to go about selecting a good quality language course.

Setting out the objectives

Before embarking on finding a course for your employees, it’s vital to clearly define the objectives you want to achieve, whether that’s during the course or after its conclusion.

So if you’re choosing a course for your employees, you might be thinking something like:

a) “The employee will be able to actively participate in meetings with foreign clients,” or

b) “The employee will be able to make themselves understood on business trips abroad.”

It’s also a good idea to set out objectives that you can clearly monitor and measure. One such objective might be achieving a certain language level.

Course focus

Company language courses often focus on specific areas of work. If that’s the case, you don’t have to overload your employees with large quantities of general vocabulary. With us, you can select right away the specific vocabulary areas that are relevant, like business and trade, medicine, or technology.

Language level of employees

With some language schools it’s also necessary to consider your employees’ level of knowledge when picking a course. With us there’s no need to worry. Our diagnostic test sorts employees into their respective language levels. We carry out the bespoke testing of students during and at the end of the course, depending on your requirements.

Length and number of lessons

Whether you’re providing language tuition for employees in their free time, or you’re making a window available for them to study during working hours, it’s a good idea to think about how many hours a week of teaching you want. The length of lessons and their weekly total is entirely a matter of preference for you and your employees.

Number of students in the group

We believe in effective teaching, which means we teach a maximum of 8 people per group. We want to be sure that each of your employees gets a sufficient opportunity to improve their language skills.

Teachers

Our teachers come through a demanding selection procedure in which they have to demonstrate not only their language competency, but also their teaching and people skills. We require our teachers to be qualified on all fronts. Not only do we employee excellent Czech foreign language teachers, but your teacher is just as likely to be native speaker, too.

Free sample lesson

We offer you a sample lesson free of charge. This lesson enables you to not only get to know the teacher better, but also their style of teaching, so that you can be sure you’ll be happy with the course.

Study materials

We use high-quality, tried and tested study materials, which we’d be delighted to supply to your company should you wish. If you have some specific materials in mind that you’d prefer to use, we’ll be happy to oblige.

References

The easiest way to choose a course is getting a recommendation, especially from a trusted source who’s just had a satisfactory experience with a language school. Our school is very proud of its references from large firms like Red Hat, Tart, and others. We’re overjoyed with the progress made by the employees at these firms, just like the improvements we see in staff at lesser-known companies.

Absences and substitute lessons

It might happen that your employees won’t be able to make some of the dates set aside for lessons. In such cases we give you the chance to cancel or substitute the lesson – all of which is arranged within a transparent system. So you don’t have to worry about missing out on any education.

Transfers between courses in the event of language level mismatches

If the teacher discovers that an employee is not at the right language level for a group (too low or too high), or the employee reaches the same conclusion, we’ll be happy to move them into a course that corresponds to their level.

Language school facilities

Our language school is not just online.

We offer facilities and support not only for our teachers. Courses are coordinated by supremely competent organizers. You needn’t worry about getting your ideas across. The whole process of organizing courses is top notch – we guarantee it.

Our school is located at Gorkého 15 in Brno. Which means you can drop by and discuss in person how best we might teach your employees.

 

Choosing a language course might seem a difficult task. But we believe that the selection criteria listed above will help you find the highest-quality course that best answers your requirements.

If you still need convincing, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us. We’ll happily offer you a language course that precisely meets your expectations.