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Thematic workshops in foreign languages
Since being founded in 1983, BTL has been committed to providing high-quality, relevant training that enables learners to develop and/or consolidate the professional skills needed for communication in the workplace. Whatever the learner's role or responsibilities, or the company's activity: handling telephone calls, reading and writing e-mails and reports, taking part in meetings or teleconferences, managing a negotiation, making a presentation, etc. The language skills developed can then be applied and reintegrated into the learners' professional context.
Our themed language workshops, adapted to the learner's profile, to their level, specific objectives and needs, can also be organized on a flexible basis. You can choose from a wide range of formats: distance or face-to-face, extensive or intensive, individual or group. Within, or independently of the CPF, and in most languages. For prerequisites, which depend on the theme, or for any other information, please contact us.
Discover a selection of our thematic language workshops
Presentations
Designed to optimize the language skills required for successful presentations in English, our hands-on, interactive training course provides speaking and listening practice through role-play and case studies. By the end of the course, learners will have gained in confidence, fluency and effectiveness.
Working across cultures
A convivial, interactive training program, based on role-play, designed to enable participants to grasp the cultural aspects of international communication and to apply the linguistic and behavioral skills adapted to the cultural contexts of their own field of expertise.
Accent reduction
An English training course focusing on accent reduction for professional communication in English by non-native speakers, this course focuses on the key principles of pronunciation in order to enable accent reduction when communicating in English. By the end of the course, participants will have worked on the flexibility and muscles of the tongue, lips and articulatory system, sounds, consonant clusters, vowels, speech rhythms, emphasis and words that are usually the source of pronunciation problems. In this way, they will have improved their English pronunciation and come closer to a 'native' pronunciation.
Meetings
Designed to help put into practice the linguistic components and techniques of speaking in English, this concrete, interactive training course aims to consolidate and improve oral expression and comprehension through case studies and role-playing. By the end of the course, participants will be better equipped to lead a meeting, defend their ideas, negotiate and present solutions in English, in front of one or more interlocutors.
Negotiations
Stimulating and interactive, this training course is designed to put into practice the linguistic components and techniques needed to master the management of client relations, particularly in the context of commercial negotiations. At the end of the course, participants will have worked on the lines of argument they need to use to manage the situations they face on a daily basis, in order to improve and their clients relations and make them long-lasting.
Emailing
This highly practical course is designed for anyone who has to write emails and business letters in a language other than their own, to enable them to communicate effectively and accurately, using the appropriate vocabulary. At the end of the course, participants will be in a position to use the most appropriate formulations for greetings, document transfers, travel arrangements, meetings, requests for information, clarifications, etc. with greater ease.
Conference calls
Through this training course we put into practice the linguistic components and techniques of speaking English in a teleconference context. It also offers practice in oral expression and comprehension specific to this tool and to the uses of a telephone conversation, based on case studies and simulations. At the end of the course, participants will feel more at ease and confident in the context of a "confcall".
Telephone calls
This stimulating, interactive training course puts into practice linguistic techniques that will help you gain confidence about holding telephone exchanges in another language, often a source of reticence and anxiety. At the end of the course, participants will have worked out useful formulations adapted to the different situations they are confronted with on the telephone on a daily basis, enabling them to gain greater fluency and ease of expression.
Managing the public
The "Managing the public" training course is based on numerous role-play exercises and the practice of linguistic techniques designed to build confidence in around greeting the public physically and by telephone in another language. By the end of the course, participants will have acquired the linguistic tools essential for a confident, professional welcome, with the aim of improving and maintaining the quality of their exchanges with the public, whether in person or on the telephone.
Professional writing
This course is designed to enable participants to become more autonomous as regards the writing of specific professional documents (memos, reports, presentations, summaries, minutes, etc.), by putting into practice linguistic techniques to improve professional writing, particularly technical or commercial writing. At the end of a training course perfectly adapted to their needs, participants will have been able to work on the quality and precision of their writing through the development of techniques and tools for written communication in a variety of situations drawn from their daily lives.
Refresher courses
Stimulating, interactive training designed to boost confidence and ease in speaking and writing, by updating general knowledge and essential grammatical structures, and acquiring correct conjugation. By the end of the course, learners will have optimized their use of English in social and professional situations, enabling them to communicate more fluently and spontaneously.
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