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Educational institutes - PluriLingua™ (series)

      

Intercultural Communication for Managerial Staff

Coordination: prof. M. Verjans (Hasselt University)

Price: modules with source language: - Dutch, French, English, German, Spanish: 121 Euro (VAT included) - Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Romanian: 60 Euro (VAT excluded) Order  ISBN

This successful series was nominated as one of the best Leonardo da Vinci products. It is the result of a fruitful collaboration between 50-odd universities and companies from BE, CZ, DE, ES, FR, HU, IR, PL, SK, UK, RO, AT.

Interpreting cultural differences, adding nuances in foreign languages, reading ‘between the lines’ and understanding implicit messages, negotiating offers, handling complaints, presenting your company, keeping track of your business partner’s speaking pace, conducting a relaxed dinner conversation, describing the technical conditions of a product…

This and many other practical things you will learn with

• 500 multimedial and various exercises
• more than 30 authentic dialogues (with various regional accents and speaking rhythms)
• functional reference pages (typical errors in the foreign language because of the mother tongue, grammar, thematic vocabulary, tips on how to negotiate with a business partner from another culture…)
• a specialised electronic dictionary (with very easy search engines, either in the mother tongue or in the foreign language)

All comprised in a unique and pragmatic concept: you will learn how to communicate in the most efficient way so as to handle various professional situations successfully.

All included in each of the 34 interactive multimedia modules (available via internet), which combine (your) source language and culture to your business partner’s target language and culture:

You find the different combination models below:

The “Plurilingua ^TM”-modules were devised as e-learning packages for self-study. The learner gets a global overview of the subject treated by one simple click, e.g. a grammatical overview, a map, an inventory of all possible expressions to articulate nuances, a list of possible formulas, an overview of activity-related terms etc. For the real training component (oral language production in its different forms like negotiations, telephone conversations, business presentations, dinner conversations… and direct feedback) a human coach is of course indispensable.

The didactic explanation (available in both oral and written form) given when opening the module serves as a guideline through the vast supply of information and materials.

The flexibility of the “Plurilingua ^TM”-modules offers each learner the opportunity to follow the learning path which befits his/ her disposition. In a school situation, however, a linear progress is most expedient according to the devised learner’s progress. A deductive learner will still be able to start from the theory on the reference page and then move to the exercises, whereas an inductive learner will infer the theory from the examples. Each individual learner enjoys the freedom to follow his/ her chosen path. This flexibility allows for the selection of particular topics with a view to satisfying temporary needs (e.g. in case of repetition).

“Plurilingua ^TM” can be supplied for an individual PC as well as in network version. The modules can also be made available through the school’s personal LMS.

In case of specific situations, we would like to visit you to search for the best solutions.

International research at the basis of Plurilingua ^TM.