It can be stressful, frustrating and un-productive for a person to do business in their non-native language if they lack the sufficient proficiency to effectively convey their position, opinions or ideas. The most effective way to improve confidence and ability to speak a foreign tongue is through concentrated exposure to the language. While the classroom can teach language theory, it is putting the theory into practice that really makes a difference. The idea of Habla Ingles is to provide Spanish business people with an intensive exposure to raw English and to authentic and impulsive English conversation.
This is where our volunteers come in. Habla Ingles seeks out the native speakers to provide this exposure and provides a framework that guarantees a package of English that cannot be achieved anywhere else.
Intense immersion program achieve the following objectives:
* To expose the Spanish participants to the personal, raw and authentic styles of English spoken by native speakers. This will improve real life effectiveness as opposed to classroom proficiency.
* To offer a supportive environment. Fundamental to building their confidence is showing them that despite numerous slip-up's they can still intelligibly express themselves in English.
* To train their ears to detect and distinguish different sounds.
* To force them to stop translating mentally and hence remove a long lasting and restrictive bad habit. On our programs there is no time to translate therefore thinking in English is pushed to the forefront.
* To prove to them that being effective with the English language does not revolve around a perfect mastery of grammar or a broad spectrum of vocabulary.
