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Let’s practise and speak
The Let’s practise and speak project for schools is taking off. European School works first and foremost with professionals and companies that use foreign languages — and English in particular — as their working languages for doing business. The European School method is firmly geared towards practising the language…
Which language is the most…? All the answers to your questions
To see you off before the summer, we want to leave you with a series of questions and answers on the things people most often wonder about languages. Which is the most spoken language in the world? And the easiest one? The questions can be many. We’ve tried to give the best…
A Foreign Language for Work: Which Is Most Useful?
For an Italian who wants to go on working in Italy and to get better opportunities, the foreign language you absolutely need to know for work is obviously English. But by now an intermediate, or better still an intermediate-to-upper-intermediate, level of English is no longer an extra on your CV, but…
German language certifications
Having looked at how certifications work for English and French, we continue our journey through the world of the CEFR with a closer look at German language certifications. If you would like a more general overview of how the European system for assessing language skills works…
All set for your summer abroad?
A summer abroad: London, New York, Berlin, or perhaps Tokyo or St Petersburg. Hands up anyone who has never toyed with the idea of working abroad, if only for a summer. In this article we run through the reasons for having this wonderful experience, but above all we give you our pointers…
The Cost of Not Training Your Staff
Language training, or no training at all. The question is always the same one: how much does it cost me? How much does a piece of machinery cost me, how much does one more employee cost me, or a new photocopier. And, on the other hand, how much does it cost me NOT to have it? How many jobs do I have to turn down if I don’t increase…
French language certifications
With this post we continue our journey through the language certification systems and take a look, this week, at the certifications for French. If you missed the previous articles, here is where to find them: Here, the general picture of how language certifications work…
Work in the Restaurant Industry? The English You Need Comes Through Food Culture Too
If you work in the restaurant industry (just like if you travel a lot) you know that a school-level English often isn’t enough: to understand and be understood you need not just the language, but also a basic knowledge of the food culture of the people in front of you. For…
English language certifications
In a previous article we already looked at how language certifications work, and in particular at the Common European Framework of Reference, or CEFR. Today we want to look more closely at English language certifications. For English there is no single institution and no single…