ITALIAN BUSINESS LANGUAGE

STUDY ITALIAN BUSINESS LANGUAGE IN MILAN

BRAVO ITALIAN TRAINER offers companies and individual Business Italian courses specifically focused on everyday communication in the work environment. Courses of Business Italian are customized to meet each individual student's needs. To develop such a course, our program involves:

- A Student Assessment to analyze personal requirements and needs specific to their work environment. This will help us to understand the level of Italian required by different students' professional roles, and also to help them to widen the possibilities for using Italian and to understand Italians better at work;

- A program that outlines the teaching approach and aims for any specific student and also the course contents chosen to achieve those aims.

As for the Language Courses themselves include:

- An initial language test;

- A personalized program - time-tabled lessons with a variety of options regarding the total number of lessons, intensity and frequency;

- Flexibility about location of lessons according to students’ requirements (on line, in their office, at home);

- All learning materials will be prepared and adapted by us according to each specific needs and interests of the students.

- A written evaluation of the level and competency of language achieved by each student.

The course is designed for students who are interested in business with Italy for professional reasons. The program focuses on the Italian business language, aiming at providing students with the essential vocabulary and professional expressions that are most often used. The topics are confronted in several ways: with topical readings from manuals used in business schools, as well as analyses of letters, office documents and newspaper articles about business. Once identifying the basic technical vocabulary and expressions, the student will be helped to assimilate them through targeted exercises and discussions.

Subjects:

1. Job applications: how to write a job application, useful expressions

2. Curriculum vitae: language and structure of the curriculum, kinds of curricula

3. References: requesting and providing references

4. Layout of a business letter

5. Layout, date, address, headings, referrals, beginning phrases, body of the letter, closing phrases, signature, abbreviations, style

6. Requesting and sending price lists, catalogues and samples. Orders, payment, information, complaints, organizing transport, rentals, insurance

7. Job applications and advertising for sales representatives

8. Business owners: classification of companies

9. Retail and wholesale companies, sales networks

10. Business regulations: Italian and European laws

11. The organization of commerce, auxiliary roles and organizations, mediators, agents, sales representatives, couriers and shippers, chambers of commerce, commodity exchange, commercial associations

12. Sales contracts

13. Banking documents