ABOUT US

Find out the top 10 things about language advantage!

01 Our vision
We want you to get the competitive advantage for you, your kids and your organisation through getting and using the language advantage.

02 Our objectives
We want more of you to get the language advantage! We want to help your business or organisation to use language skills and language services to the full so that they can get their competitive advantage. And we want you to learn a language, become culturally aware and use your language skills at work so that you can get more out of life and get your competitive advantage. Finally, we want you to encourage your kids to learn a language and become culturally aware so they can become global citizens and get their competitive advantage.

03 Our focus
We are unashamedly focusing on getting the mono-lingual English speakers off the starting block. We want kids to grow up thinking it is normal to speak more than one language, we want adults to try to speak another language rather than just shouting louder when abroad and we want workplaces to take advantage of the linguistic and cultural talents that are in their workforces to give them better business results.

04 Our philosophy
We believe that communication helps the world go round and that it is incredibly easy for communication to break down (how many times a day does it happen to you?!). So if you can at least be aware that communication needs some effort, if you are aware that communication is a two-way thing and that you can improve communication by watching your language, we would bet that your day would be much easier. And you can do all of that in your own language. So imagine what can happen if you are communicating with people that see things in a different way or who don’t really understand English? You may have to work hard to get your language advantage, but it will be worth it once you claim your competitive advantage. We want the workplaces of the world to become more understanding places to be.

05 What we do
We want to make it easy for you to get the language advantage – and for you to claim your competitive advantage – by pointing you to the best and most innovative language and culture products and services in the world. You’ll only find products that are worthy of world-class businesses, world-class professionals, world-class travellers and world-class kids! It means that we have done the searching, so you can just get on with learning. There are other language courses out there – but we feature what we consider to be the best.

06 Why we’re different
We want to help you as an individual to get more out of your life (both work & leisure). And we want to help you as an employee or business manager to get the competitive advantage for your organisation or your business through introducing the language advantage. We provide you with well-researched language courses and provide you with independent reviews.

07 The time is now
We believe that you need to get the language advantage while is still that. Soon it will become the language necessity:
- our research shows that 80% of you think that it is important to use languages at work
- many of you are realising it is a real asset to speak another language as global travel and the internet makes the world an even smaller place
- by 2050 English is unlikely to be the only dominant world language as Spanish emerges as the next world language, and then Mandarin Chinese after it

08 Our team
We are a team passionate about language learning and cultural awareness. We’ve worked and travelled around the world and have seen how you get more out of life and more out of your business relationships with the language advantage. Language Advantage Limited was founded by Sarah Carroll in multicultural Shepherd’s Bush in West London – home to families from over 50 countries around the world.  London is one of the most multicultural and multilingual capitals of the world. Sarah is supported by a team of marketing specialists and reviewers.

09 What you say
www.languageadvantage.com is a great site for all kinds of language advice (Mike Nicks, Observer,Sunday, 29 September 2002)

10 Our plans
We launched www.languageadvantage.com on 11 May 2000. We are constantly updating www.languageadvantage.com. Our projects for 2008 are to ‘modernise’ the website to make it easier for you to find what you’re looking for and to re)introduce our much missed newsletter and competitions.