West Midlands Businesses And Individuals Benefit From Language Advice
The Regional Language Network West Midlands can help your businesses to succeed overseas, provide language advice for individuals wanting to learn languages or find work using their language skills.
The RLN is a non-profit organisation aiming to promote the importance of language and cultural skills across the West Midlands. They work closely with businesses, helping them to realise their export potential, support language professionals in their work and aid individuals who want to learn or make use of language skills. Their website provides further details on the full range of free services available and should be the first port of call for all language and culture-related enquiries.
If your business has customers whose mother tongue is not English or is looking to enter new overseas markets then it is worth considering how language and cultural skills can benefit you.
Familiarising yourself with another language and culture can enable you to enter a new foreign market with more ease. It is far simpler to make initial contacts, source potential customers and establish your company if you can converse in the necessary language and adhere to local customs. It will also help you to retain customers as people are more likely to make a purchase when a product or service is sold to them in their own language. Language skills will undoubtedly improve your international communications from day to day e-mails and faxes to performing well at overseas trade fairs and promotional events.
If you are looking for professional interpreters or translators, language or cultural trainers, the Regional Language Network has a database of quality-assured providers from across the West Midlands and can help your business find the right person for the job.
Case studies of West Midlands companies who have used language skills and cultural understanding to increase exports or enter new markets are available on the RLN website together with a range of business resources such as free cultural briefings.
Languages will also bring life-long benefits to the individual, from increasing travel and career opportunities to enabling you to immerse yourself in the previously unknown worlds of foreign films and literature. The Regional Language Network West Midlands can help locate language courses to suit you, from full time study to evening courses and one-to-one language tuition.
To find out more information on key language skills visit RLN West Midlands