by Nathalie Danon | Sep 23, 2015 | Benefiting Business, Latest News
Customer service scaled even greater heights at Mercedes-Benz of Newbury when it played host to finalists from next month’s West Berkshire Business Awards (WBBA). The London Road Retailer is sponsoring the Mercedes-Benz of Newbury Customer Care Award and welcomed...
by Nathalie Danon | Jul 24, 2014 | Benefiting Business, Bilingualism in Children, Learn a Language, Uncategorized
The brightest budding linguists at St. Bartholomew’s School in Newbury were given an insight into the importance of being bilingual in the modern world. The audience of some 50 students from years nine to 13 were taken from the school’s Gifted and Talented programme...
by Nathalie Danon | Jul 14, 2014 | Benefiting Business, Latest News, Learn a Language
Well, if you believed a debate raging on social media over recent weeks. A discussion within a language group on LinkedIn asserted that all language schools would be closed within five years. Yes, apparently the onward march of apps on mobile telephones and tablets...
by Nathalie Danon | Jun 18, 2014 | Benefiting Business
Here at the VICI Language Academy we are always telling people about the difference learning a language can make, and for young adults they often want to know if a second or third language is going to make a difference to their career prospects. Naturally we say it...
by Nathalie Danon | Apr 22, 2014 | Benefiting Business, Latest News, Learn a Language, Uncategorized
Good for you if not for your liver! Seriously this witty retort is usually given by someone who doesn’t speak a second language when asked if they do… Little do they know how close to being bilingual they actually are! Assuming for a moment they are not diehard...
by Nathalie Danon | Feb 24, 2014 | Benefiting Business, Latest News, Learn a Language
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...
