Languages Challenge for Business Free

Languages Challenge for BusinessKeywords: Languages, Companies

The Languages National Training Organization has launched the Languages Challenge for Business as a way of encouraging firms of all sizes to take part in the European Year of Languages campaign. Companies can choose to:

• sign up to an export-communications review and show evidence of creating and implementing a languages strategy for their company;

• carry out an audit of language skills in their company and show how they support employees with language skills to use them to the company's advantage;

• talk to their translator or interpreter about how they work, in order to improve mutual understanding;

• contact their local school, college or university and offer work-placement opportunities to people with language skills;

• sponsor one or more of their employees to improve their language skills.

Further information is available on the Internet, at http://www.languagesnto.org.uk/latest/challenge.htm