TRIPLE E TRAINING HOLDINGS

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.

Even if you are not in a management position, but a small business owner or an employee you will benefit from learning to speak an African language. The first benefit of learning to speak an African language is that you will be able to communicate with a larger segment of the population and with your co-workers and employees. Communication breaks down barriers and builds respect for each other. The second benefit is that you will open career doors and thus invest in your future. For the employer it is important that the non-native African language speakers will be able to work well with all groups in the company. By enrolling employees in a course such as Tswana, Zulu, Xhosa or Sotho open communication in the company can follow, creating a positive work environment.

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.

Because many South Africans claim Sotho as their primary language and another five million claim some familiarity with the original language, Sotho may dominate the workplace. Among the workers, Sotho may be far more common than English or any of South Africa’s nine other official languages.

Especially in major urban and residential areas, Sotho prevails as the everyday language of family, neighborhood, gossip, and social conversation. Sotho may similarly succeed along the assembly lines and on jobsites throughout South Africa because it remains the principal language of the country’s working class. In order to boost spirits, increase efficiency and productivity, many corporate leaders encourage supervisors and managers to use Sotho in the workplace. Recognizing its power and value as an especially effective tool for developing rapport, many of the nation’s most successful business leaders routinely use Sotho in the workplace.

Children and adolescents learn language almost as easily as they learn to walk. Their rapidly developing little brains absorb words and concepts like sponges. However, adults experience considerably more difficulty learning a second or third language because they have trouble thinking and composing in their “other” language; they typically must translate before they speak or write.

Sotho adult classes make the process of learning the language more accessible and efficient because classes begin with common conversation and they focus on everyday workplace terms and expressions. Sotho adult classes develop students’ new language proficiency by developing it through ordinary social and professional situations, encouraging students to practice and perfect their skills outside the classroom. Given Sotho’s commonness in South Africa’s major residential areas, Sotho adult classes have tremendous value for supervisors and managers who do business in those areas.

Sotho, the original language of the African nation and one of the eleven official languages of South Africa, may serve as the unofficial international language of the southern African continent. Four million South Africans claim Sotho as their primary language and as many as five million more identify Sotho as their second or third language. Especially common in Johannesburg, Soweto, and Tshwane, Sotho serves as the everyday language in many of the working class neighborhoods.

Businessmen wisely will choose learning Sotho over their nine other options because the majority of their workers probably speak and understand it.

Learning Sotho is relatively simple, because it includes linguistic jargon for a language that builds complete words from relatively few roots and a lot of prefixes and suffixes and despite its widespread use across South Africa, Sotho has very few dialectical differences.