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Learning African languages the easy way

Isebell — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:00:36 +0000

When you think about learning African languages, you may already feel it not possible because of previous experiences at school. Triple e however, makes learning African languages easy not only for you, but all your employees as well. To ensure that English or Afrikaans speaking employees can understand and communicate with their colleagues speaking Zulu, Tswana, Xhosa or Sotho, we have developed ABET courses that promote fast learning at your workplace. Better communication amongst the various groups at your work especially at factories, processing plants, and mines is essential for workplace harmony. Help your to become skilled in other languages by enrolling them in courses which make learning African languages easy.

African language courses

Isebell — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:17:42 +0000

Once the manager or supervisor understands the language of the workers and is able to effectively communicate in their language, fewer mistakes and misunderstanding follow. Triple e also provides African language courses to help managers communicate in Zulu, Tswana, Sotho, and Xhosa. A Xhosa manager for instance, will have difficulty to build trust, establish good report with and motivate workers if the manager cannot speak their language. The same applies to a Tswana, English, Sotho, Afrikaans, or Zulu manager. As such you can now bridge the communication gap that exists in the workplace by enrolling the managers in short and effective African language courses through Triple e at your specific workplace.

Learning Xhosa Boosts Morale and Productivity

Isebell — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:03:42 +0000

One of the things that frustrate a manager is the communication problems with the workplace. Even if we all agree that English ought to remain the South African language of business and professional conversation; nonetheless, the facts of everyday life say that managers must learn Xhosa. Workers understand the authority vested in a manager’s title, but they will respect and willingly follow the leader who takes initiative to communicate with his workers in Xhosa.

The leader who develops proficiency in Xhosa proves to his workers that he joins them in common grounds. Investing time and effort in learning Xhosa, a leader proves his respect for his workers’ culture even as he initiates them into his own. In addition, learning Xhosa makes the manager and his team more efficient because they understand his instructions and expectations.

Leaders Should Learn to Speak Tswana

Isebell — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:43:36 +0000

Professional journals and popular media thoroughly show the benefits businessmen and professionals gain when they learn to speak Tswana. Most experts now support that all up-and-coming leaders in business, industry, and any high profession should learn to speak Tswana. This is not only for the sake of advancing their careers, but also to assure the success of South Africa’s bold and ambitious experiment in pluralist democracy.

Even more than shared values and expectations unify society; common language cements the South African cultural diversity. When leaders learn to speak Tswana, they prove their respect for the nation’s disadvantaged workers and citizens. Speaking in a common language, leaders and followers develop a sense of shared activity as they fill their common obligation to a just cause. When professionals of all kinds learn to speak Tswana, they create a bond between themselves and more than four million of their fellow South Africans.

Tswana Classes Benefit Business Leaders

Isebell — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:40:20 +0000

Dedicated professionals recognize the benefits of continuing education. Advanced classes build their knowledge of strategies, tactics, and innovations giving them competitive advantage over their peers. In addition to professional growth classes, forward thinking business leaders ought to consider enrolling in Tswana classes. One of South Africa’s most prominent languages, and considerably easier to learn than the majority of African languages, Tswana is the everyday language of culture and commerce for more than four million South Africans.

Studies repeatedly have shown that businessmen who communicate with customers and clients in their native languages, command more respect and loyalty than their English only competitors because customers recognize command of their language as a symbol of esteem.

In addition, Tswana classes, specifically designed and developed for busy businessmen, promote rapid acquisition of the language. Using the best instructional methods, Tswana classes focus first and foremost on Tswana for commercial and professional use.

African language courses for beginners

Isebell — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:45:41 +0000

Although online and CD based training exist to help people learn foreign languages, few people have the time, discipline, and will to complete the self study training. Triple-e provides African language courses for beginners at the client’s premises and at scheduled times that suit the client company and its employees. The short African language courses teach the employees basic conversation skills, more advanced skills and communication in the language or languages suited for the workplace. If your company is in the financial sector, it will be important for the employees to communicate in for instance Northern Sotho regarding financial aspects. The same holds true for people working in any industry. Our African language courses are interactive and geared to the improvement of communication in society and the workplace. As such the African language courses are focused on your specific industry.