VICI Language Dynamics Blog
Why face to face is better in any languages?
It has never been easier to communicate without actually meeting up with someone – emails, texts, Whataspp, Facetime, Skype, Google Hangouts or you might even send a letter! The point is we often resort to one of these methods rather than meet face to face. We know in...
Businesses no longer need language training for their staff
Why would a business that specialises in language training for business make such an outlandish statement? Simply speaking… because it is true. Allow us to explain and we will use a large engineering company to illustrate how we came to this conclusion; our...
Language training for staff: does it deliver measurable results?
At VICI we mean business when it comes to speaking a foreign language delivering a tangible return on any investment spent learning the lingo. Sure there are plenty of feel good factors when learning another language and plenty of studies will show how it can do...
Your approach to language shouldn’t be a hobby when you mean business
Once again a business has hit the headlines amid accusations that it banned foreign workers from speaking their native tongue while at work. At the distribution centre for Hobbycraft in Burton there are myriad languages spoken by workers for whom English is clearly a...
Will learning a language help me get a better job?
This was the pertinent questions when I delivered a talk on languages and careers at St. Bartholomew’s School in Newbury in my capacity as the founder of The VICI Language Academy. Naturally I was already talking to young people who were either gifted at languages or...
Are you scoring an own goal by only speaking English?
Business is full of sporting metaphors and as far as the VICI language Academy is concerned the multilingual example set by Arsene Wenger truly sets the standard that businesses should model themselves on. Arsenal’s latest signing the wunderkind Mesut Ozil has gone on...
If plumbers need to speak French isn’t it time you took the plunge?
It seems like only yesterday the tabloid papers were filled with fear mongering headlines about Polish plumbers coming over here ‘stealing’ jobs… How different headlines this week suggest that no matter what your nationality, you will not win certain plumbing jobs...
What should Domino’s have done?
Without any sense of irony a branch of Domino’s pizza is insisting that all staff speak English, making it a disciplinary offence if they are caught speaking their native language. We know that the branch of the take away is doing this after Stuart Horton, a delivery...
British Council report vindicates the passion at the VICI Language Academy!
What do the 10 most important languages for the UK’s future and the 10 foreign languages taught by the VICI Language Academy in Newbury have in common? Absolutely everything – they are identical! In a widely reported report published by the British Council ‘Languages...
Why speaking the local language is essential for foreign workers – and their families
In the global marketplace it is becoming ever easier for UK workers to travel abroad for the right job and of course for foreign workers to bring their skills back here. Looking more closely at those foreign workers, the experience at VICI is that typically the...
A 2nd language means a 10 to 15% pay increase
It has been said that where America leads the world follows and the New York Daily Post has just published a story which suggests the demand for a second or even third language could be greater than even we at the VICI Language Academy have suggested! With a headline...
Are language differences costing your business dearly?
Even in these challenging economic times it is a truism that people still do not rate price as the main reason they buy. They say people buy people yet when you add a foreign language, people will only buy from people they understand – regardless of price. Recently we...