Remote language training so that a member of staff who is about to be sent on secondment can be given a crash-course in Portuguese

 

The challenge

A multinational company, one of the market leaders in integrated healthcare services, had to train one of their employees who was about to be sent to Brazil on secondment.
The person in question, who had no prior language knowledge, needed to acquire the basic skills in order to be able to function both in everyday life and in the workplace. All this in just two months!

The solution

Our DOS (Director of Studies) provided the team working on this project with a specially designed study programme in order to provide an employee who is about to be sent from Italy to Brazil with a crash-course in Portuguese.

We provided an intensive programme for the first two months, in order to achieve this basic objective, and a language consolidation programme, after the employee had moved to Brazil.

Starting level: zero
Target level: intermediate
Time available: two months to complete the first level and make it easier for the staff member to integrate socially and to adapt to their new working environment from the start. The following language levels would be attained within the desired timeframe.

The result

The student was impressed with the teacher that we chose, right from the beginning. The student adapted well to the programme and successfully rose to the challenge.