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Business Spanish & Occupational Spanish Classes

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” - Nelson Mandela

Spoken by almost 400 million people worldwide, more and more people in the US are learning Spanish. Approximately half of the population in the Western Hemisphere speaks Spanish, and within the United States, Spanish is the second most widely spoken language after English. With over 44 million Latinos in the US, learning Spanish just makes sense.

In the US workplace, many industries are finding Spanish language skills essential. Whether your employees, your customers or your community members speak Spanish, it’s important to be able to reach out to them in their language.

Job-specific Spanish programs, also called “occupational Spanish”, can help you improve communication and teamwork and increase efficiencies in your organization. Grammar, while important, is not a focus in this type of training, as this approach does not involve teaching the whole language. In contrast to academic Spanish, the focus in occupational Spanish training is on vocabulary and expressions that you need on a daily basis to do your job, for example, greeting customers, taking a medical history or complimenting employees

Below is a chart to help understand how occupational Spanish differs from academic Spanish.

Academic Spanish

Occupational Spanish

• Diffused

• Focused

• Long periods of study

• Short periods of study

• Teenage or college-age language

• Adult language

• Grammar

• Non-grammar

• Exotic topics (taking a trip to Machu Pichu, visiting the Rain Forest, etc.)

• Familiar topics (cashiers cashing a check, police making a car stop, etc.)

• Big "C" Culture (art and architecture, literary works, etc.)

• Little "c" culture (alternate/folk medicine in the Latino community, etc.)

• Spanish for living or traveling abroad

• Spanish for the U.S.A.

• Spanish for make-believe (unlikely activities such as returning a book to a Spanish university library)

• Real-world Spanish (real life activities such as police learning to arrest people in Spanish)

• Humanities-based curriculum

• Vo-tech skills-based curriculum

• Requires lots of motivating

• Requires little motivating

 

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