BiCortex helps expats and their families with language lessons and intercultural training anywhere around the world. Many assignees will want to take English lessons because that is the language that their company speaks.
However, most expatriates focus on the language of thehost country.
What is your best professional memory/moment this year? On 1st January 2016, as the CEO of an international company with a small workforce, instead of enjoying a relaxing start to a new year, I was putting out fires in BiCortex Languages, attempting to solve every single issue that arose within marketing, sales, accounting, finance, operations …
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Since the age of 16, I have been travelling to Spain alone to visit my (now) husband and his family. I am British native, and was notoriously disastrous with languages at this time, just about getting by in Spanish at school, understanding ‘chicle en la basura’ more than anything else. Being so young and only …
Successful Language Training: What Does it Look Like, and What Can it Provide? Successful language training often helps employees determine if they can easily accept a global assignment. Many transferees may have a commanding grasp of several languages. Language proficiency and other professional skills often prepare them well for work in a new location. However, …
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Born from parents who decided to immigrate to an entirely different country all on their own and without knowing the language, my parents decided to settle down and call the U.S. their home for the past thirty years or so. They arrived here in the United States after my grandfather’s arrival a couple of years …
I am the HR manager for BiCortex Languages, originally from the UK, four years ago I relocated to Italy. I have lived in other countries before, such as France in my early 20’s. My family are based all across the world and travelling has always been a big part of our lives. Having an Italian grandmother …
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Globalisation means companies can operate in any country there is a market for them. This leads to opportunities for their people to live and work in a new place, learn a new language and adapt to a new culture. It’s exciting, but what goes on behind the scenes to make it happen? If you work …
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Team building skills are extremely important both inside and outside of the classroom. They are also of key value later in life when you find yourself in a work environment. Focusing more on the present, however, there are a number of reasons why you should start building and investing in teamwork. Here, then, are a …
Jakarta born and bred, Bahasa Indonesia teacher Iqbal was originally an English teacher at local schools, having completed a Masters degree in English education. But a chance encounter made him see how rewarding it could be to teach his native language to foreigners. Trainer: Mochamad Iqbal Muchtar From: Jakarta, Indonesia Speaks: Bahasa, English, Malay, Arabic …
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Meet our Dutch teacher, Conny van Sluijs who speaks four very different languages, an ability she attributes in part to a very unusual experience she had as a toddler. “When I was two years old I walked into a ditch – very Dutch!’ she jokes. ‘They found me and thought I was dead. Sometimes children who experience this …
It was in his hometown, Kilifi, on Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast, that Alfred’s passion for languages was ignited. ‘People there speak Bantu languages,’ he says. ‘Swahili is spoken more than English.’ His first job with languages was working as a translator for a Christian organisation. He translated the Bible from English into Kigiryama, which is …
