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Our vision
We want you to get the competitive
advantage for you, your kids and your organisation
through getting and using the language
advantage. |
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Our objectives
We want more of you to get the language
advantage! We want to help your business or
organisation to use language skills and language services to
the full so that they can get their
competitive advantage. And we want you to learn
a language, become culturally aware and use your language skills
at work so that you can get more out of life and get your
competitive advantage. Finally,
we want you to encourage your kids to learn a language and become
culturally aware so they can become global citizens and get
their
competitive advantage. |
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Our focus
We are unashamedly focusing on getting the mono-lingual English
speakers off the starting block. We want kids to grow up thinking
it is normal to speak more than one language, we want adults
to try to speak another language rather than just shouting louder
when abroad and we want workplaces to take advantage of the
linguistic and cultural talents that are in their workforces
to give them better business results. |
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Our philosophy
We believe that communication helps the world go round and
that it is incredibly easy for communication to break down
(how many times a day does it happen to you?!). So if you
can at least be aware that communication needs some effort,
if you are aware that communication is a two-way thing and
that you can improve communication by watching your language,
we would bet that your day would be much easier. And you can
do all of that in your own language. So imagine what can happen
if you are communicating with people that see things in a
different way or who don't really understand English? You
may have to work hard to get your language
advantage, but it will be worth it once you claim
your competitive advantage.
We want the workplaces of the world to become more understanding
places to be.
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www.languageadvantage.com is a great site for all kinds of language
advice
Mike Nicks, Observer on Sunday, 29 September
2002
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What
we do
We want to make it easy for
you to get the language advantage
- and for you to claim your competitive
advantage - by pointing you to the best
and most innovative language
and culture products and services in the world. You'll only
find products that are worthy of world-class businesses, world-class
professionals, world-class travellers and world-class kids! |
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Why
we're different
We want to help you as an individual to get more out
of your life (both work & leisure). And we want to help
you as an employee or business manager to get the competitive
advantage for your organisation or your business
through introducing the language advantage. Most language portals
aim at linguists, educationalists or travellers. |
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The time is
now
We believe that you need to get the language
advantage while is still that. Soon it will become
the language necessity:
- our research shows that 80% of you think that it is important
to use languages at work
- many of you are realising it is a real asset
to speak another language as global travel and the internet
makes the world an even smaller place
- by 2050 English
is unlikely to be the only dominant world language as Spanish
emerges as another world language, and then Chinese after
it
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Our
team
We are a team passionate about language learning and cultural
awareness. We've worked and travelled around the world and have
seen how you get more out of life and more out of your business
relationships with the language advantage. Language Advantage
Limited was founded by Sarah Carroll in London, the multicultural
and multilingual capital of the UK. |
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Our
plans
We launched www.languageadvantage.com
on 11 May 2000. We are constantly updating www.languageadvantage.com.
Our projects for 2006 are to make it easier for you to find
what you're looking for on the website and to (re)introduce
our much missed newsletter
and competitions |
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Our thanks
We thank everyone who has helped us to get our ideas and plans
in place and to those who continue to visit and contribute to
this site. |
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