viernes, 28 de agosto de 2009

Immersion Courses

Why Do an Immersion Course?
Learning English does not have to be the boring, dry grammar-directed subject that no doubt many of us have been subjected to in High school. It CAN and IS an exhilarating, fun, dynamic, challenging and truly unique language for which the benefits of learning are boundless.

LANGUAGE COMES ALIVE AT LANGUAGE AFFAIRS
Creative self-expression, interactive learning and lively discussions bring classrooms alive at Language Affairs. Our integrated Immersion Program and exciting extra-curricular activities create a continuous language immersion experience.
What's so good about immersion courses? These involve a dynamic teaching approach that puts students at the center of all classroom activities. Lessons mean involvement, participation and encouragement to speak, which are the trademarks of successful language acquisition. This also makes learning a truly engaging experience!

Immersion Courses are made up of several Factors:
● Courses that target all language skills: writing, reading, conversation and diction;
● Special test prep courses for TOEFL, BEC, PET etc (verbal skills for ESL students);
● Special Advanced ESL Programs in Business and Computers (six months in duration);
● Experienced, highly qualified staff members that will be able to assist you in your academic choice.

You'll be surprised how quickly your speaking improves when you're immersed in English from breakfast until the afternoon or bedtime. Language Affairs integrated Immersion Program carefully selects teachers who provide a friendly, supportive and welcoming learning environment for students. Some discover friendships that last a lifetime. Language Affairs Immersion Program is a whole new dimension of learning, one that takes place naturally over lunch/dinner conversations, card games and movies, songs and others.
Whatever your interests, there are activities to match – from charades after a formal English lunch or dinner to impromptu card games to dinner theater and musical sing-along (karaoke). A Language Affairs staff member will be your guide, and the only costs are your enthusiasm to learn and willingness to participate. Language Affairs always has an exciting variety of weekend and day-trip activities going on at Language Affairs Immersion.

There is no better way to learn English or any of the other languages we provide, than immersing yourself in the full Language Affairs experience. Come Join Us for A New Way of Learning.
Language Affairs – Helping You Achieve Your Language Dreams
GENERAL INFORMATION
The Teaching Method. The method emphasizes all language skills, including listening comprehension, speaking, reading and writing, with special emphasis on oral proficiency. Our focus on Business English is something we are proud of, helping from the smallest business to large Financial Institutions in Buenos Aires find the edge over their competitors. In the global marketplace, the ability to communicate in any language proficiently is what makes the difference between a good company and a GREAT company. We specialize in teaching Business English to adult learners already in the workplace. When it comes to Language Learning, finding the right program can make a world of difference.
OUR LANGUAGE TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
Through our innovative "student-centered" approach to education, you’ll learn English while pursuing your own interests and passions.
OUR PRINCIPLES
The 1st Principle is that learning works very well when it is student-centered. The 2nd Principle is that learning works better when it is made a part of the experiences of daily life. Language courses immerse you in these real world experiences with role playing, day trips, computer use and group learning activities. You learn to speak and write English in real world situations. The 3rd Principle is that people learn best when they are confident, at ease and happy.
So let us show you how all these really work and you’ll see and check what we mean.
Sandy and all of Language Affairs staff will be there waiting for you to make you experience a real difference in language learning

Dejanos tu opinión

Mi opinión es que en épocas de crisis como la que estamos atravesando, la capacitación debería orientarse a sostener y reforzar las competencias para enfrentar la incertidumbre y las competencias creativas para alcanzar resultados con los escasos recursos de que se dispone en el momento. Utilizar formatos no tradicionales para ello y fortalecer el mensaje de que las crisis no dejan de ser temporales. Siempre pasan.

Y vos que pensas?????

jueves, 2 de julio de 2009

Photo Gallery



Some activities at our Immersion Courses

domingo, 21 de junio de 2009

Why Language Affairs??





Why choose Language Affairs Services?

It is Affordable
With today’s unstable economic markets, turn to Language affairs Services as your solution. We’ll get your needs met and at a very convenient cost.

Experience
At Language Affairs, you deal with one only Project Manager, who was raised in the United States and Argentina, who has a strong customer service background.

Clear Communication
We know how it works. It's not the same to work with a sales team as a proven team of linguists. We also know how overwhelming it can be to be in charge of choosing your language provider, and we understand you...

If you needed us yesterday, but found us today, it's not too late...

A poem to help with pronunciation

A poem to help with pronunciation

Dearest creature in creation,Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you with such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak: say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles, exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,Solar, mica, war and far;One, anemone, Balmoral,Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;Gertrude, German, wind and mind,Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet, bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food, nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad, toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK when you correctly say
Croquet, rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour and enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant. Shoes, goes, does.
Now first say finger, and then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very, nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little, we say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer. Mint,pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed, people,leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover, between mover,cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,Principle, disciple, label.
Compare alien with Italian,Dandelion and battalion.Sally with ally,
Say aver, but ever, fever,neither,leisure, deceiver.
Face, but preface, not efface.Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,hyphen, nephew, Stephen
Monkey,donkey, Turk and jerk,Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation -- think of Psyche!Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,writing groats and saying grits?
Finally, which rhymes with enough --Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

(This poem was submitted by Samantha, a coleague of us)

Porqué aprender idiomas?

La importancia de saber idiomas

El dominio del inglés es tan valorado como una educación de postgrado o Master debido a la creciente demanda de perfiles internacionales.
El dominio de idiomas, principalmente el inglés, puede incrementar el nivel salarial de un ejecutivo de manera notable. Esta es la conclusión de los datos proporcionados por una consultora de selección de personal. Este problema se presenta como uno de los principales retos de los próximos años, ya que las empresas están demandando un mejor nivel de inglés.
Para los expertos de la consultora, un nivel fluido de inglés es clave para conseguir un buen trabajo con posibilidades reales de progresión a corto y medio plazo. La internacionalización de los mercados, no tan solo de grandes empresas, y la actual situación económica exige una mayor movilidad y la necesidad de contar con perfiles internacionales. Estos requisitos están poniendo en apuros a muchos ejecutivos. En este sentido, los expertos de la consultora señalan que el nivel de inglés exigido cambia dependiendo del sector.
Actualmente, con la incertidumbre económica del mercado, las empresas son aún más exigentes y demanda perfiles cada vez más internacionales, priorizando la movilidad y el nivel de inglés del candidato. Junto con el inglés, el francés, el portugués, alemán e italiano son también muy demandados y marcan una gran diferencian entre un candidato de otro.

sábado, 20 de junio de 2009

Sesiones de Conversacion





Sesiones de Conversacion


Vení a participar de nuestras charlas en inglés con profes nativos, a través de lecturas, charlas, juegos, actividades dirigidas, llámanos ya!!!!
Podemos asegurarte buenos resultados. Es la mejor manera de poner en práctica la lengua.
Nos juntamos una vez por semana, 2 horas, en un cómodo bar convenientemente ubicado, donde compartiremos un café con amigos, mientras practica charlar en inglés. Grupos mixtos en cuanto a sus edades, sexo y nacionalidad. Tanto para estudiantes como para profesionales de empresas y/o independientes. Se requiere un mínimo nivel del idioma que te permita interactuar con otros y así aprovechar la actividad. No son clases sino mas bien el medio de practicar el idioma a través de charlas
La asistencia es libre, solo requiere inscripción previa, que lo haces escribiendo a languageaffairs@fibertel.com.ar o languageaffairs@gmail.com o sino comunícate con Sandy al 15 5475 4299

Valor: $40 (incluye una consumición)

Conversation Sessions


Conversation Sessions

If you want to have fun while speaking and interacting in English
with real native teachers and through guided activities and games, just call us now!!!!
We can assure you 100% effectiveness. Is the best way to put the language into practice.
Come and join us, once a week, 2 hours, in a cozy bar perfectly located, where you’ll meet friends and new people and at the same time you will practice the language.
The only thing you need is a little knowledge of the language that will allow you to participate. These are not classes, just a way of practicing the language in a nice environment.
Just get your inscription prior to the event which can be done calling Sandy at 15 5475 4299 or send us a mail to languageaffairs@fibertel.com.ar or languageaffairs@gmail.com