Teach Yourself Business Mandarin Chinese

Do you want to win more business in China?
Do you want to serve your Mandarin Chinese-speaking customers better?
Do you want to work more effectively with your international business partners?

Teach Yourself Business Mandarin Chinese is a three-hour, all-audio, straightforward course that will help you to acquire essential up-to-date business language to use in China. Read more

Happy Vietnamese Women’s Day!

20 October is Vietnamese Women’s Day.  It is a very important day for all Vietnamese women when they are really treasured. Husbands show their love for their wives and children show their love for their mothers.  It is also a day when men traditionally give women beautiful roses and gifts and do all the housework!

Find out how to learn to speak Vietnamese and get the Vietnamese language advantage>>

Volunteer Language Course Reviewers Wanted

Are you learning or would you like to learn French, German, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Arabic, Dutch, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Portuguese or Russian?  We are looking for volunteers to review beginner, intermediate & advanced self-study language courses for us. Read more

Join us at our new Language Advantage Facebook page

We are pleased to announce that we have a new facebook page, just for fans of www.languageadvantage.com!

Catch up on the language news, find out about new language courses, join in the conversations, enter the competitions – like us and spread the word!

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Is Your Website Optimised for International Trade? Workshop

Sarah Carroll, the Founder of Language Advantage, is speaking at UK Trade & Investment’s Internationalising your Website Workshop in London on Wednesday 30 March 2011.

Does your business have an effective online strategy for boosting overseas sales?  Is your site optimised for international search engines?  When Googled internationally, is your company found?

The workshop will explore practical steps you can take to boost your international business performance online. Read more

One Year Free with Think French

Sign up for Think French Online Magazine and receive one year of back issues completely free!! Once you place your order you will have immediate access to the current 4 issues – as well as the free full year of archives.

That’s TWO full years at an already reduced rate! Think French is a complete online learning package of monthly articles, audio, lessons and more. An engaging approach to language learning, Think French is designed to improve your French while teaching you about life and culture in French speaking countries.

read our review of the Think French online audio language magazine now>>

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Language barriers led to red & yellow cards in football

I’ve just been watching the Denmark v England international football match and the coverage on TV mentioned that red and yellow cards were introduced in football to overcome language barriers.

Apparently the idea was invented by British referee Ken Aston during the 1966 FIFA World Cup, after a game between Argentina and England at Wembley Stadium when cautions were not understood.   Read more

Turning Japanese with Justin Lee Collins – Episode 1

The first episode of ‘Turning Japanese’ on the UK’s Channel 5 screened on 27 January 2011 features Justin Lee Collins taking a ‘hilarious’ and somewhat alternative look at Japanese life and culture. Read more

Happy Icelandic Language Day!

National Icelandic Language Day is on 16 November 2010 this year, to mark the birthday of the famous Icelandic poet, naturalist and author, Jonas Hallgrimsson.  The Day has been celebrated for the last 15 years to help preserve the purity of the Icelandic language and protect it against foreign influence Read more

Cabbies Learn Languages for the London Olympics

More than 3,000 cab drivers who work for Radio Taxis in London have been given MP3 and CD language courses so they are prepared for the influx of foreign tourists for the 2012 Olympics.  Under the scheme devised by Collins Language, drivers will learn useful phrases in French, Spanish and Chinese, and will have a flag on their cab to denote the language they can speak. Read more

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