ICL News

Monographic Intensive Courses

Our loyal client Roca Sanitarios has been putting into practice the learning by doing method with periodic 8-hour intensive courses in ICL Idiomas. The participants have been very satisfied with the results. Over different weekends they have acquired more fluency and confidence in different aspects of the language such as speaking in public, giving presentations and communicating on the telephone.

“BLENDED” = MADE TO MEASURE

Congratulations Jordi! In only 6 months you have reached your goal: To communicate in English with your potential clients and international colleagues both confidently and fluently. You have profited from the time and effort invested by following the language learning plan we designed for you with one to one classes, online learning and an intensive week in the UK.

New Clients: Welcome

The management of Grupo Copisa have shown their “savoir fair” by integrating language learning with ICL into their international expansion. Their goal is to guarantee and efficient and fluent communication in different languages with clients and suppliers. Es fácil hacer caminos con TIMBERLAND – y para TIMBERLAND se acortan las distancias con más facilidad por una mejor comunicación gracias a las clases con ICL-Idiomas. It is easy to find the way with TIMBERLAND and for TIMBERLAND distances are shortened more easily with better communication, thanks to classes with ICL.

Good News

We would like to extend a warm welcome to our new clients: Werfen Life Group S.A who develop software for the medical sector; Parlane International Ltd who design household furniture and decoration and Universitas Colectividades S.L who work in the Catering sector. We are confident that their respective English, Italian and Catalan classes will give them excellent results.

ICL in La Vanguardia "La Otra Mirada"

The journalist Mª Paz López from the newspaper “La Vanguardia” has managed to capture the essence of ICL’s intercultural training for ex-patriots in her article “La Otra Mirada” . She quotes from her interview with ICL director Monica Baumgartner in the first page of the article.More+

Welcome TNT

2010 has brought us a new client, the distribution and transport company TNT Express. All of us at ICL would like to wish a warm welcome and let them know that we will make every effort to send them an “Urgent Delivery” of English. We are sure that the TNT “Collection Service” will make sure that they will take good care of it.

ATHLON CAR LEASE SPAIN. Welcome!

We can't let another day go by without giving a formal welcome to ATHLON CAR LEASE SPAIN S.A. We hope that our relation will be fruitfula and long-lasting. We are sure that with the help of ICL-Idiomas our new client will acheive his linguistic objectives.

At ICL we teach slavic languages too!

In November ICL will embark on a new project: teaching slavic languages. Our ship will raise anchor in Barcelona and will head for the Baltic Sea until it arrives at its destination, Poland. So.. All aboard, this ship is about to set sail!

New clients, new proyects

We would like to give a warm welcome to our new clients
-Hachette Filipacchi -Südleasing España-Frigicoll-SPIE who are doing English and French language training with us this year. We are also working in collaboration with Global Group to offer language training to various companies. It’s clear that ICL success owes a great deal to recommendations by word of mouth. Many thanks to all of you for continuing to support and encourage us.

“Club ICL” Instant Practice

"Club ICL" Instant Practice is a new online learning resource for ICL English students. The exercises provide listening practice at different levels, using songs and authentic news items based on general and specific topics such as Business English and Legal English topics. Students can monitor their own progress and receive feedback from ICL. It’s an interesting, efficient way of keeping your English up-to-date on a weekly basis, and we highly recommend it for the summer for those who are not doing a summer English course.

Working together with The British Language Centre

Durant el curs acadèmic 2008-2009 IN COMPANY LANGUAGES i THE BRITISH LANGUAGE CENTRE (BLC) han portat a terme una fructífera col•laboració. BLC, coneguda escola d’idiomes i centre de formació de professorat a Madrid, ha permès a ICL d’ incrementar el seu servei outsourcing d’alta qualitat. Volem donar les gràcies a BLC per aquest any de treball en equip i felicitar-los pel 25 aniversari com a centre d’idiomes.

The Importance of Language Training in Times of crisis

The busy autumn behind us shows that the importance of language training and clear communication skills remains strong in spite of the economic crisis. Companies in the Barcelona area are willing to invest in languages even in more difficult times.

How to learn a foreign language

Here are some useful tips on how to learn a foreign language, taken from an interview with Gerry Sweeney from ESADE, published in La Vanguardia:
- Attend as many hours of class as possible
- Have realistic goals. Don´t be discouraged: Learning a language requires effort and perserverance
- Attending class is not enough. You have to study at home too (watch TV or read something in the language you are studying, doing language exercises on the internet...)
- Try to practise as often as you can, even with non-native speakers
At ICL we couldn´t agree more on these rules!

Welcome!

We are delighted to welcome our new client Alcón Cusí, a highly prestigious pharmaceutical company. Our Portuguese and Catalan trainers will be teaching in-company by the sea in El Masnou as of April 2008. We hope this will be the beginning of a long and fruitful collaboration for both Alcón Cusí and ICL.

Did you know that there are more than 6000 languages in the world?

The Government of Catalonia has recently set up Casa de les llengües (The House of Languages), an institution which promotes languages as a vehicle of communication and the recognition of linguistic diversity and multilingualism. One of its members is the famous Welsh linguist David Crystal, who is the President of the International Scientific Committee of the institution. Crystal is the author of two highly renowned Cambridge University encyclopaedias, and in celebration of the International Year of Languages, he has spoken about multilingualism and intercultural dialogue at various conferences.
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More information about the services offered by Casa de les llengües can be found at www.linguamon.cat. Included is a directory of language training centres, with In Company Languages featuring in the list. There are also various different multilingual features and glossaries that guarantee hours of fascinating topics to browse.
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Learning by doing

With the Spanish general elections fast approaching, two ICL teachers decided to spice up their English lessons by involving their students in a political debate. With one class taking the part of the socialist party and the other the populists, battle commenced on Tuesday morning. Each student had prepared a policy point and gave themselves an appropriate identity - with name tag to boot. What followed was a good-tempered, heated debate lasting an hour and a half with everyone taking part. The whole event was a great success, with teachers leaving feeling proud of their students and students leaving feeling proud of their newly acquired English debating skills. Credit must be given to the ICL teachers who led the whole affair with skill and flair; and to all the students who meticulously prepared their parts...To be continued...

ICL Top of the Class!

All of us here at ICL are delighted with the results of our survey of the opinions of our students for the 2008-9 course. Once again we have managed to maintain the upward trend in overall levels of student satisfaction. The ICL co-ordinators visit all the classes during the course and speak to each student individually giving them an opportunity to give us their feedback on the course. The students complete a questionnaire about their course during the visit, they are asked to evaluate the teacher and teaching methods, the course material as well as the administrative aspects of the course. As we look forward to the 2008-9 course we are analysing the results of our student feedback in order to continue offering the best service possible.

Barrio Gotico with an Irish Accent

ICL students joined our Irish tour guide Paddy on a walking tour of the Barrio Gotico in the heart of Barcelona – all in English, of course. The students were keen to contribute to the tour by exchanging anecdotes and different versions of local legends such as Saint Eulalia. They were also invited to visit an old-fashioned herboristería before marvelling at the various architectural styles and monuments hidden in the heart of the old city. The students all agreed that it was an evening well-spent.

“Life on a bike!”

Darina, an ex ICL teacher popped in to see us recently to tell us all about her amazing two year trip around the world, ON A BIKE!! She´s travelled all around Europe, South and Central America and is on her way back to Switzerland, via Ireland of course. more

Welcome!

We would like to give a warm welcome to our new client RECABE S.L (Representación Benetton Cataluña) BENVENUTE ragazze!!! Siamo convinti che imparerete molto italiano in questo 2007.

ICL recognised by Cambridge University

We are pleased to announce that ICL has been awarded the “Exam Preparation” certificate by Cambridge University. This is given to those language centres that have demonstrated their competence in preparing students for the Cambridge exams such as First Certificate and BEC (Business English Certificate). If you are a student of ICL and interested in taking one of the Cambridge exams please get in touch with us and we will arrange everything for you.

“DON’T TELL ME, SHOW ME”

This phrase of our director Monica Baumgartner has been chosen as phrase of the month in the emotive company - Strategic Management of the Motivation. more

"El País"-English Version

Our students receive the news of the day in English with the English edition of "El Pais" more