- Missing out on the entire French-speaking market and customers, even though there is practically no competition there regarding the services or products the company has to offer.
- Misunderstandings due to not knowing the difference in politeness, such as de rien versus je vous en prie, the way you communicate with clients, making false promises by saying je vais le faire, while you actually meant to say by the end of the week and not now.
- The account manager that loses his/her personal flair in French, therefore not being able to win over the customer’s trust, while he/she can perfectly do so in his/her own mother tongue.
- Losing customers to bilingual competition.
- Functioning more slowly within the company and communication problems which lead to customer complaints: doesn’t understand the issue, has difficulties understanding the accent, cannot fully explain what he/she means.
- The expat manager who cannot communicate with his co-workers, be it employees or blue-collar workers.
- The expat who cannot seem to integrate, does not function as well as in normal circumstances and ends up leaving.
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All our language trainings are made-to-measure.
We can provide private classes as well as in-company group classes on-site or at our office.
Tanika has helped me tremendously when it comes to solving this. I took weekly sessions at Hello Languages for about a year to eliminate this limitation and all barriers attached to it. The pathway that lead to this solution was completely tailored to my objectives, my capacities, and even my busy schedule! Tanika uses her endless creativity in all her training sessions. That way she manages to achieve all pre-established objectives! The sessions consisted of a range of very different methods, which could entail practicing technical presentations, or even playing customized board games. Additionally, Tanika can appeal to an elaborate knowledge of technical vocabulary and concepts, not to mention that she will go to any lengths to further enhance her knowledge within the professional background of her students.
Professional, entirely made-to-measure, and all of this in a very fun way! A TOP-NOTCH experience and an absolute must do!
My lack of knowledge and lack of practice stopped me from approaching the French-speaking region professionally. This way, I ended up letting several commercial opportunities pass me by, because I preferred to avoid having to establish any contacts in French.
My goal was to present my services and products with as much ease as in Dutch. Apart from that I also wanted to be able to hold my own at the coffee corner.
After a few months of intensive one-to-one sessions, I can now easily present my products and have already managed to get several French-speaking clients.
I have achieved my goal and I would definitely recommend Hello Languages to everyone.
Hello Languages handles up language specific aspects in a pleasant way, along with the necessary cultural framework, which – for me – made it a lot more comprehensible.
In a nutshell, I would definitely recommend them!
The course was well structured. Different topics are covered by listening exercises, role plays, reading exercises. Tanika read about my work, therefore the conversations became very realistic and practical. Tanika paid a great deal of attention to the pronunciation and she is critical when it comes to completing the translation exercises.
Through interaction we searched and found synonyms and she gave me tips to understand the language and how French people think. Thank you very much for all of this.
