by Nathalie Danon | Nov 28, 2016 | Business, News
I am bilingual. I speak French (my mother tongue) and fluent English. I think, and dream, and worry in both languages. And every day I am grateful for it. Having a second language opens up a far wider world; one of greater cultural diversity and shared experience....
by admin | Oct 22, 2015 | Business, News
The emotions ranged from incredulity to despair… indeed there can be few so exasperated with the attempts at speaking French on The Apprentice than students here at VICI Language Dynamics. Our inbox and social media came alive – first with excitement that the popular...
by admin | Nov 19, 2014 | News
Imagine you are interviewing for telesales staff for your organisation and by far the stand out candidate isn’t a native English speaker? In fact he is Romanian with a heavy accent. Well this scenario unfolded at an IT Firm in Newbury where among the English...
by admin | Feb 25, 2014 | Business, News
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...
by admin | Nov 29, 2013 | News
Imagine you are working in a different country where you do not speak the language… would you recognise a warning sign? Or understand an important safety message if it were not in your native tongue? This is a dilemma faced by migrant workers every day here in the UK...
by admin | Nov 29, 2013 | News
Reassuringly VICI Language Dynamics is based in Newbury, in the heart of the Thames Valley in a prosperous area; however in the current economic climate we all know someone who has been made redundant. It can be a difficult experience and needs to be handled...
