by KarenChapple | Oct 10, 2019 | News |
Following up my repost of a brilliant article touching on the benefits of language training in IT support functions, I wanted to write a post deep-diving into the topic. To get a first-hand account of what an invaluable asset multi-lingual helpdesk staff can be, I...
by KarenChapple | Sep 17, 2019 | News |
Not far from our French office in Lons-le-Saunier is a lycée (state funded secondary school) specializing in “hôtellerie”. In addition to hospitality qualifications like business management and team leadership, it offers specific vocational courses; Hotel Technology...
by KarenChapple | Aug 27, 2019 | Guest Blog |
“I’d rather not hear you speak and ruin our beautiful language.” These are essentially the words that a very rude French woman said to me on the streets of Paris twenty-two years ago. I was a young, 20 year-old college student experiencing life for the first time in a...
by KarenChapple | Aug 21, 2019 | News |
I was recently invited to a networking event by the Made in Jura Association in my town in the Jura, one of the last great undiscovered areas of France. Not only was it a well-planned and thoroughly enjoyable networking opportunity but something I hadn’t done before:...
by KarenChapple | Feb 4, 2019 | Phil Gowler |
The Phil Gower Way! Avoid alliteration always. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with And don’t start sentences with ‘and’. Don’t forget to use a full stop Avoid clichés like the plague. They are so old hat. Comparisons are more harder to get right, so don’t...
